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should I buy or wait

sybaris

sybaris

sybaris

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I have a pretty decent rig, running a q9550 (on an Asus p5q-e and a gtx 480SE). It may be dated now, however it still performs pretty well for an old timer. Nothing I own, struggles. Or not that I notice. Here is my dilemma.

On one hand my software runs well. I play games and I like high level of detail but im not hardcore on just FPS. I play the range from shootem ups to football manager to rpgs, mmorpgs, retro stuff, arcade, sport, management the lot.
I sometimes run a vm machine if I want to run old stuff, I use office and standard utilities.

On the other hand, I don't know what I am missing. Am I missing out on faster processing? Is it worth upgrading or should I carry on until my PC grinds to a halt?

BTW I have clocked my CPU to 3.5ghz
 
If it's doing the job, why waste money?

That's one logic to apply.

Another would be, with the capabilities of what's available now - An upgrade is usually a good thing regardless

Personally, I'd favour my first point :)
 
What I'd do is use task manager during games to see what kind of cpu utilizations you're getting. If the average would be over, lets say, 80%, then I would consider an upgrade. You have to try and figure out what's the bottleneck if you want to upgrade. But like the dude above me said, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
 
hmmm I take your points onboard, but im fpu usage is acceptable, then would a faster cpu do the same thing as my current cpu ... but faster?
 
your cpu still fetches quite a bit and z77 boards like the gigabyte deh are well priced

sell you mobo mem and cpu put off afainst cost of a i3570k 8gb ram and deh would be about 280 minus your parts what theyd fetch 100-120 probably

so about 160 for total upgrade .

do you think its worth it ? a phenom 2 quad core or highend 775 quad is still capable for 90 percent of things anyway.
 
I may hold out a couple of months longer. All my older stuff will be re-used in to a box for the local school. I am sure they could always use another file or print server. I was thinking of maybe an i5 or an i7. If I am going to upgrade then its got to last me. This PC is 6 years old and still going strong.
 
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