Worth the upgrade?

[davedudes]

Going from a E8400 @ 4Ghz to Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775, or should I save up and maybe go for i7?

Cheers for the advice.

 

[PeterTheGreat]

What about the price? Is your mobo for gaming?

 

[davedudes]

What about the price? Is your mobo for gaming?

Yeah mainly for gaming, as for price about £150+ish

 

[vian_siu]

dont do it, or get a i7 instead. you wont see much difference from e8400 to q9550, especially e8400 is more overclockable.

 

[davedudes]

dont do it, or get a i7 instead. you wont see much difference from e8400 to q9550, especially e8400 is more overclockable.

Agreed, thats what I was thinking, just needed some of your views.

Cheers for the advice.

 

[Arcimbaldo]

Second what everybody else has said or if you dont have that kind of money am3 could be considered?

 

[pastymuncher]

By the time you sell your E8400 (best prices on the bay not the members market) the quad will only have cost you around £50-60. You have a good P45 mobo so a Q9550 should hit or get very close to 4Ghz and it would be a worthwhile upgrade and prolong the life of your 775 rig. By the time you are then in need of a new rig 1156/1366 will most likely have been replaced by something else. I doubt if either socket is going to have anything like the longevity of 775. I did it a couple of months back (from a E8500) and everything just seems smoother to me.

 

[LEUVEN]

Have a look here

I know it's only one benchmark but just note the E8400/Q9550/i7920 scores.

You could get another 4890 if you've got £150 to spend.

 

[Vertigo]

I've done just this, upgrading both my machines from E8400 CPUs to a Q9650 and Q9550 respectively.

Still worked out significantly cheaper than a whole cpu/mobo/mem swap to i5/i7 and will provide more than enough performance to see me through this year, at which point I'll go straight to Sandy Bridge and skip Nehalem altogether.