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Upgrade to a Q9450

JEB

JEB

JEB

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Looking for a CPU upgrade, at reasonable cost without spending a fortune. Currently have a Q9450 2.66Ghz. The rest of my components including Mobo are good spec (Prostar T series Mobo), 4Gb ram etc. I'm totally out of touch these days with what's out there. Can anyone recommended a CPU that's going to give me a noticeable performance increase across all functionality (graphics, gaming etc) without like I say spending silly money. By the way this is for a SFF case, so no room for a massive cooler, and want something that runs nice and cool.
 
No. There are none that you would see a noticeable performance increase with. It's damn near top of the range. And definitely none without upgrading your motherboard.
 
To get any sort of noticeable performance increase you'd have to go i7. However due to your case you can't get a decent cooler for high overclocks so you'll probably end up leaving it at stock (or you might be able to push it to 3ghz on stock cooling maybe). Either way going from what you've got now to an i7 at stock, for gaming you're hardly going to see any benefits of having just spent £400 or so changing everything. Save your money mate. I'm in the same position though, my next upgrade (excluding gpu) will have to involve a mobo, ram, cpu change so im thinking of just overclocking the hell outta my q9550 for now.
 
johnerz said:
Agreed 3.2 > 3.4 at or near stock will make a difference and put it close to stock I7 performance
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I would not say that it would reach the highs of i7 territory at all , however if you can get 3.4ghz its going to be better than any stock C2Q you can buy and good to go for a while.

If you really have money to splash , you could look at the 920 , or 860 respectively.
 
I'm sorry to slightly hijack this thread but i have just got a Q9450 and don't really have the knowledge to overclock it properly :p

Is there anyone that would be willing to let me add them on Msn and talk me through the process?

Thanks :D
 
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