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ultrasavage

ultrasavage

ultrasavage

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Hi

I bought this pc about 2.5 years ago, it is a q9450 overclocked to 3.65ghz by overclockers, with 4gb corsair ram. intel 80gb ssd, 2 x 6950 in crossfire (ssd and gpu's upgraded recently). I am wondering what kind of increase i would get in mostly games with a bit of video decoding, if i went for one of the bundles from here the I7 2600k at 4.6?

Thanks
 
The new Sandy Bridge chips are insanely fast, however it depends if the games you're playing are particularly CPU intensive (some people have mentioned considerable improvements in a few games when switching from Core 2 Quad to SB). Also depends how much video encoding/decoding you do and if saving a few mins on that means enough to you to spend the money on an upgrade now.
 
the games i play is mostly wow, call of duty black ops, starcraft 2, and i want a high fps in upcoming crisis 2 . I dont do much video stuff tbh,.
 
Can someone please define 'insanely fast' ???
I keep reading the same BS over and over without any conclusive evidence.

All I can see is a 50% bump in raw cpu performance. However it gets very interesting if you can hold an i7 2600k at 5ghz. If you can approach those speeds then definitely go for the upgrade as it appears that mobo and RAM prices are currently very good for the SB platform.

Overall I would love to see a 100% increase before considering the chores of upgrade (OS re-install, getting everything working perfectly can take time)
 
ultrasavage said:
so would you skip this and wait for the new chips in q4 2011?,
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This is what I've been considering all day today.

Problem is this ... The actual SB platform is cheap ... what happens if by the end of the year Bulldozer doesn't deliver and to top it off RAM prices increase too ? I would have scored an own goal.

To summarise .... The price is right but performance is not a giant leap.
 
I found myself wondering if it is worth it, too. I've decided to upgrade to the SB stuff, and will probably upgrade the 2500K if there is something better toward the end of the year.
 
I went from a q9550 3.4ghz to 2500k at 4.4ghz both with an ati 5850. It's improved the framerate for GTAIV , Dragon age, TF2, Starcraft II and Bad company 2. Everything else ran great anyways though.

Anyone find that GTA IV stutters unless you do the framerate limit switch? :(
 
Max3 said:
I went from a q9550 3.4ghz to 2500k at 4.4ghz both with an ati 5850. It's improved the framerate for GTAIV , Dragon age, TF2, Starcraft II and Bad company 2. Everything else ran great anyways though.

Anyone find that GTA IV stutters unless you do the framerate limit switch? :(
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Hi,

this is exactly the setup I have and the upgrade I want to do, but I am not convinced yet whether it's worth it. To tell you the truth I dont game that much any more, apart from WoT, FM11 and CoD
 
Gaming wise everything pretty much ran well on the q9550 anyways but I had some strange issues with my ip35-e mobo which pushed me into a new setup instead of buying a cheapo 775 board to replace :p

I can't think of anything right now that ran badly on the q9550 but the sandy had pushed up the framerates a bit but nothing major.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/spammeh/games?tab=all

My GTA framerate is killer with sandy - well it if didn't stutter every few seconds :(
 
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