What constitutes an upgrade from an OC'd Q6600

[thegoonden]

I'm starting to feel daft again.
I built this windows box after realising that my last attempt (now the Gentoo box shown in sig), had no upgrade path whatsoever.

"well, I'll get one of these little Q6600 jobbies and a year or two from now, pop in one of those things that cost £1000 at the moment...when they cost £50", I thought.

But most of what I read around here suggests that the Q6600 is pretty well unbeatable.

So, is this the case, at some point (determined by price) will I be able to upgrade to a chip that would hammer the 6600?

Or have I bought ANOTHER dead end box.

IS one of the £1000 chips any quicker.

 

[Greebo]

The new quad chips are about 10% quicker clock per clock.

If you don't use all your cores then the E8xxx series clock to 4Ghz +

New Intel chips are different platform and hence new mobo and new memory. (EDIT: just noticed you have ddr3 memory so that's okay)

Early signs are that clock per clock they are 30-50% quicker than the q9450 so maybe 33-55% quicker than you quad.

So yes maybe drop a cheap q9450 or q9550 later when they drop in price but your next pc is going to be another rebuild.

However, what is struggling with your oc'd quad? All my games are gpu limited, not cpu limited?

 

[thegoonden]

Oh nothing at all, as you say the GPU is the spoiler.
Just thinking of the future (which is why I bought DDR3).
As long as there's a few more MHz out there for me somewhere eventually.
I take it we've seen the last of LGA775 now that Nehalem (or whatever it's called) is coming.

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