Upgrade from E6600?

[TheLemster]

Hi,

I'm just about to buy myself a shiny new 4870X2 card and was wondering if my E6600 would be a bit of a bottleneck for it and should I upgrade this also?

I've only got circa £200 to spend on any CPU upgrade and was looking for some friendly advice.


Thanks,

LEmm.

 

[mame]

It depends mostly if the E6600 is overclocked.

 

[linktoinsanity]

CPU should be fine with the card. The E6600 is still a reasonably good cpu, even now. If at stock you can always try overclocking it.

If you are desperate for a new cpu and your motherboard supports the 45nm cpus, then you should go for the E8400/E8500/E8600 cpus. They are good chips, not worth you going for a Q6600 (not enough of an upgrade) and the Q9xxxs that you would benefit more from are all over the £200 that you mentioned.

 

[TheLemster]

It's not. I don't really have enough time or the patience with the dark art to get things running in a stable fasion.

 

[Seldarine]

If you do want to upgrade it will depend on what motherboard you have as if you were an early adopter of core2 using a 975x chipset you will be pretty limited in any upgrade options.

 

[TheLemster]

I've got an Abit IN9 32X-MAX Wi-Fi so according to the manufacturer website I should be OK.

Thanks for all the help chaps.

 

[C64]

Anyone on a decent duo shouldn't consider anything other than an I7 upgrade route imo.

 

[pieman109]

Anyone on a decent duo shouldn't consider anything other than an I7 upgrade route imo.

I tend to agree with that. I reckon as long as the cpu has at least 4mb L2 cache, and clocks to around 3.2ghz its good enough to last a long time yet for gaming with a topend vidcard or medium sli/xfire set up at anything other than insane resolutions.

 

[formby]

clock it will do 3.6ghz easy

 

[SidVicious]

overclock the slumbering beast!!!

 

[doiks14]

Hi,

I'm just about to buy myself a shiny new 4870X2 card and was wondering if my E6600 would be a bit of a bottleneck for it and should I upgrade this also?

I've only got circa £200 to spend on any CPU upgrade and was looking for some friendly advice.


Thanks,

LEmm.

Personally, I would save the money, keep the E6600 and overclock it. I just find upgrading CPU at the moment not worth the money to upgrading to. It just wouldn't provide that good big leap on performance that I got like when I did when I upgraded from Pentium 2 to Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 to Core2Duo.

 

[ShaolinDreams]

Q9550 or E8500

 

[SinaiSound]

Overclock it tbh

Had just shy of 4ghz with mine

What motherboard do you have?