which processor to get?

[mythrandyr]

Hi guys,

I have an E8500 in my current rig but i am considering buying a Q6600 at the end of next week. Is this a worth while upgrade? or is it a downgrade? because what i hope to acheive by doing this is getting a straight 5.9 windows vista rating without having to overclock and i want to avoid buying a big, beffy processor since i will be upgrading again at the end of the year to the nehalem processor.

cheers.


Myth.

 

[mythrandyr]

i dont overclock any of my systems, period, to be honest i dont beleive in overclocking. But a lot of the review sites have said stick with core duos for the time being since the nehalem processors are coming just around the corner.

I use my pc for a lot of video converting (winavi) and gaming and general use, the one thing that puts me off buying a quad core at the minute is the lack of support for quad core processors in software applications.

 

[mythrandyr]

well, what i was considering was this.

I am currently using an MSI X48C motherboard which doesnt like DDR3 memory and only has 4 sata ports.

I have 3 150GB Raptor X HDD's, i am only using 2 at the minute cos of the lack of sata ports on my motherboard (i have 2 sata dvd burners) and i also have 3 GB of 1600Mhz DDR3 memory which the board wont handle. Now if i bought either an Asus P5Q3 Deluxe or an Asus P5E3 Intel X38 and a 150GB Velociraptor (instead of the Q6600 and raided all of the 4 raptors together since they are all 150GB in size) that should provide quite a boost in system performance until one of the 1366 motherboards/processors come out later in the year. What do you think of that idea?