Would this be worth upgrading...?

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I currently have a Core 2 Duo E6600 with a Intel BX2 motherboard. Also 4GB of RAM. Would it be worth upgrading to a Quad Core setup? I do quite a bit of graphics/3D work (not much gaming) so I think i might see a benefit, but I'm not sure. I would actually plan on keeping my RAM, assuming it was compatible (Team DDR2 PC2-6400 Xtreem Micron 4-4-4-10). Not sure what my current CPU and MBD are worth if I was going to sell them? Any advice?
 
A Q6600 is around £130 as far as i can remember, so if you can afford it, it would be a worthy upgrade to your system and not too expensive.

I can't help with the motherboard though...depends if you have the time to fiddle around with it. :p
 
I'm pretty sure my motherboard won't support a Q6600, but can anyone else confirm this? Assuming it doesn't, any suggestions would be useful... thanks.
 
i wouldnt bother upgrading...your system is already good enough and im not sure if your board supports quad core, youll have to research it. seems good for everything you need it to do.
 
Ah, very interesting that the BX2 supports Quad Core. I didn't think it did. Well that would save some money, so the only thing i'd need would be the CPU. Certainly worth considering this... :cool:
 
Bear in mind, the quad core will only see an increase in rendering speed, almost all other operations in max, maya c4d etc are single threaded.
Stil, as a drop in upgrade, it's tempting.
 
Check out if your installed versions of the graphics / 3d programs use 2 or more cores and if so look for any benchmarking to see what it might save in time. I suspect its not worth it unless your an intesive user or get a good price on the old cpu.
 
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