Upgrade from a Q9550

Mikey

Mikey

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Looking at changing my motherboard, chip and RAM. What's the recommendations these days?

Generally use the machine for internet, virtual machines, Dirt 2, GTA4 etc etc.

Got an original Noctua cooler on it at the mo, Corsair 700D case, Ati 5870 etc.

5 x HDDs and looking at changing it to 1TB drive and changing to a smaller case
 
Unless you got money burning in your pocket I'd wait until January-February for the new INTEL sandybridge chips to come out.

Q9550 is still an awesome chip and I doubt you'd notice much of a performance increase. :)

Maybe overclock it ?
 
Firstly what is it currently clocked at? What apps/programs is it struggling with? and what do you mainly use your pc for?

If its just gaming, I'd overclock as far as you can go with that chip and wait and see what sandy bridge/bulldozer offers. The q9550 is still a very good cpu.
 
Haven't had great overclocking success, hence looking at loosing some of my HDDs etc. and then my Corsair RAM has gone faultly so it's being RMA'd

Good time to sell and just use a laptop then....

It's running at stock at the mo, due to stability issues, which is down to the RAM in the end. Did have it at 3.6 I think, can't remember

Gaming and general stuff

Was looking at selling the CPU, motherboard. RAM and case
 
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franco_22 said:
Even if you sell it, I'd still wait until January for sandybridge :), it's only 1-2 months away.
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Pretty much what I was thinking as I have an HP 6715b laptop, which is what I'm using at this v moment

But I bet the new chips will be £££
 
stulid said:
listen to franco 22, thats good advice right there.
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Think I'll get my RAM sorted and order a Samsung 1TB drive and go from there.

Still looking at changing the case I think as the Corsair 700D is huge and I'm not water cooling. Wish I'd get the money and my Antec 300
 
Mikey said:
Is a 520w PSU enough or should I be looking to up it?
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Rig in my siggy pulls a max of 334w at the wall and that's onlu if i run Fur stabilty test and linx at the same time. Normal power draw when gaming is anything between 230w and 272w. Assuming it's a quality 520w psu you will be fine.

What motherboard do you have?
 
pastymuncher said:
Rig in my siggy pulls a max of 334w at the wall and that's onlu if i run Fur stabilty test and linx at the same time. Normal power draw when gaming is anything between 230w and 272w. Assuming it's a quality 520w psu you will be fine.

What motherboard do you have?
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Cool, I'll leave that and just stick with the loosing of drives and get the RAM sorted
 
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