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Will I see a substantial improvemnt in games going from a Qx9650 to an IB CPU?

I'm still on the Q6600 (the one that doesn't overclock well) and was wondering about the 2500K, given that Ivy sounds like it isn't going to be a good overclocker either but, given the state of play, I think I'll wait for Haswell next year. Of course a revised Ivy (quite a possibility) might eb a good choice later in the year.
 
I'm in the exact same boat. Having made a new "gaming" pc with a 6850 OC, I think the processor is struggling abit. Been using the Q6600 for 2 weeks now OC'd ofcourse...

Just wondering if an upgrade to an i5 with the above card would give me a lot more better performance, or just a slight gain, or if its better getting another 6850 for crossfire or even an SSD!!

Eventually I will upgrade to i5...but not right now, need to save ££ for other things !! Decisions, decisions
 
Laher, I think it depends on the games you play. most games tend to demand more and more Graphics card power rather then the processor. For example, GTA IV was deadly when I got it but I only had a 512MB 9600 Nvidia Graphics card. When I put in a 1200MB Nvidia 470 it was great and not problems with the frame rates.

What games are you playing and what problems are you getting?
 
Just dip in FPS in BF3 multiplayer with high action packed scenes. I didn't mind lag back in the CS : Source days, But I suddenly mind it now lol :S, especially as I have a 120hz monitor

I really want fluid gameplay without the need to spend £400 on a graphics card, and another £400 on a processor/motherboard bundle I will hardly make use out of as an occasional gamer!

Don't mind putting an extra ~100 into the system though for this month :D
 
I'd hang out here and hope some other BF3 players are around to advise you then as I haven't played it. Mind, if your other players are Internet ones you have to factor in the lag on the network which will detract from fluid play.
 
id say it is quite substatanial, i have a q6600 ( @ 3.5 spare pc ) and an i7 930 ( @ 4.0 ), i play bf3 quite a lot and feel its a lot better, but i do have a better gpu in the i7, but the resolution is a lot lower on the q6600 so may even themselves out, but on raw cpu power the new cpu's are great, i did a video encode on both pc's same settings same progame used to encode, the q6600 did it in 18 mins 33 secs, the i7 did it in 3 mins 56 secs, its not gaming but a massive difference, and the sb/ib are faster than mine.
 
Spenty said:
WTF? I said 2 to 3 fold. It was shown the other day on this forum some guy updated from a highly overclocked Phenom 2 to a 2500k and his minimum fps tripled in unigine heaven.
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I'm waiting to see what the change from a moderately overclocked 550BE + unlocked third core to a SB @ 4.6Ghz will do for minimum fps. If only my GTX460 would work in my new motherboard :mad:
 
I am going from a C2D E6850 and I have only recently started to feel that games are getting too much for it to handle at times, that said I have a decent graphics card (ATI 6950 with bios change an overclock) and haven't seen games running on a top rig in a long time so i'm hoping I will see a big improvement as well.
 
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