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Will It Improve??? (Q6600)

What do you think for an i920? Is it worth the upgrade and how far can it clock? I've seen you clock on OC threads, is it worth the investment? Let me know Easy
 
Got 4 gigs of equivalent to the three packs, found out through a mate that the ram is the same and so buying another two gigs for 60, makes it triple channel 6 gig ram, buying a 920 and x58 gigabyte ud5/maybe asus 6tp. Can't figure out the mobo after reading xtreme forums. But going to flog my bits on wanted, Q6600 and XFX 790i. If its not worth it, then I'll hang but, I have the upgrade bug and am a technology freak
 
bluesouljah said:
I hit 3.8 with mine, not difficult if you can overclock properly, 4gig has potential, Currently considering a 920 i7 core for sh*ts and giggles
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Also got my q6600 to 3.8ghz (on air) but darent go any further. Quite impressed with the cpu, particularly as mine is one of the more recent batches which dont seem to clock as well, would love to go i7 but simply cant afford to at the moment. Considering maybe picking up an E8500/600 to dabble with.
 
I bought the chip about 4-5 months ago, 1.2750 vid, batch, L803A746. does 3.6GHZ ON 1.4V, for 3.8 it was using 1.512v, load temps of 68-68-62-62. Cooled by a TRUE black with 2x2000rpm fans in push/pull. Certainly had a lot of fun clocking this cpu:)
 
Youll have to register with an online image hosting site, www.photobucket.com is a goodun. Once registered you can upload pics from your system to the site which will save them for you, and give you various tags for the images for posting on forums etc. the partcular tag youll need to use for this forum is the img tab. simply copy this tag and paste it into your forum post.
 
Greebo said:
Wrong. I went from a 4200+ x2 running at 3Ghz to a q6600 running at 3.4Ghz and my crysis framerate at went from 29fps to 41fps :eek:

I call that a major boost.
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Was this at the same time as a GPU upgrade. Crysis is GPU limited not CPU limited. The speed of the cpu makes very little difference in this game. The only thing that will increase is the minimum fps. The average stays around the same.
 
Are you sure pastymuncher? Im pretty sure Crysis runs on Vector based processing - therefore it will stress the CPU when rendering large images, fractals etc i thought? Therefore a better CPU (bigger FSB, more cache, etc) will make a difference - not just GPU.
 
SMN said:
Are you sure pastymuncher? Im pretty sure Crysis runs on Vector based processing - therefore it will stress the CPU when rendering large images, fractals etc i thought? Therefore a better CPU (bigger FSB, more cache, etc) will make a difference - not just GPU.
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I did some testing with my pre-upgrade rig (E6600 @3.6Ghz + 8800GT 512mb) and between stock and 3.6Ghz on the cpu all i gained was 10 fps on the minimum framerate. The average stayed more or less (+0.2fps) the same. Have a look at this comparison i made between a E4300/E5200/E6600 at various speeds.
Chart 3 is the gaming one. There is no Q6600 results for Crysis as i no longer had it then.
 
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