Upgrade to Q9550 ?????

[blackninja]

So - would you buy one of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-260-IN if you had a Q6600 that can sit @ 3.9GHz 24/7 priming on air without too much noise to boot? It's that time of year again and I am thinking that I could do with a new toy

Basically I would sell the Q6600 and replace it with a Q9550 .... If you would then can you please say why?

 

[Duke]

If you (somehow) are making full use of all four cores at the moment, then yeah go for it

 

[mmorpheus1]

I changed from a Q6600 to a Q9550 a couple of months ago , i do a lot of video encoding as well as playing games and beleive me the difference is noticeable.

on video encoding it took nearly half as much time as the Q6600, even when using winrar and quickpar the speeds are a lot faster than the Q6600.

games wise my 3dmark06 score went up by around 3000 points and playing games such as crysis and farcry 2 were noticably smoother with faster framerates.

My rig is a Q9550 @3.6Ghz , 4Gb ocz reaper ddr2 memory , asus rampage formula and a sapphire HD4870 512mb graphics card and vista ultimate 64bit.

I still have the Q6600 in an Asus 680i motherboard with 2gig ram and running xp pro, this rig is on almost all the time and it is quite a good setup compaired to some i have seen, but i would say if you have the cash to spend then why not buy the Q9550.

You will notice the difference, but depending on what you use your rig for will you be satisfied.......

 

[Trunks9486]

Dont bother...

unless you need a new toy to play anyway

 

[arc@css]

Considering the very same move from my q6600, the q9550 looks good, 2.83 @ stock aint bad.

 

[Linx]

You probabley won't notice much difference between the Q6600 and the Q9550, however the Q9550 is getting cheap now, so up to you. I wouldn't personally.

 

[jbloggs]

If you are doing a lot of video encoding, you will notice a good improvement, but that is about it really.....

 

[MoRT489]

Given u r at 3.9GHz I think u would notice less difference than the above posters, seems a crazy outlay for little gain.

 

[Paul2506]

I only have the E8500,I was gonna throw the Q6600 in when i 1st built this rig a couple of months ago,But then i saw the Q9550 and thought i might as well wait till after crimbo,When it will prob come down in price a little bit,and grab it then

 

[blackninja]

Given u r at 3.9GHz I think u would notice less difference than the above posters, seems a crazy outlay for little gain.

I agree. I do a few hours (of real time) encoding a month so no gain there really ... I am probably gonna upgrade the graphics instead this time round and I will put some cash into a second PC for the family ....

 

[Cob]

The Q9550 is roughly 10% faster clock-for-clock, but it also has SSE 4, which speeds up software that can take advantage of it (video encoding is the kind of thing that shows good improvements with SSE 4).