Upgrade advice

[Blitz Ap0C 552]

Two questions.

Do you think an upgrade from an E6700 (very first gen C2D) to a Q9550 45nm quad core is going to be worth it?

Secondly do you think $100 is a decent price for a Q9550 used?

[WiseGuy]

Check these threads and find out if Skyrim does anything meaningful with the extra cores. My hunch sais yes it will and therefore the upgrade will be useful. I'm assuming you are asking about this in regards to Skyrim.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25...0-worth-change
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2028058

[Blitz Ap0C 552]

Well skyrim is the last straw so to say.

I am CPU llimited in Skyrim, TF2, and BF3.

EDIT: After looking at some CPU benchmarks on skyrim, it does not scale very well across 4 cores, nor does Team fortress 2. Guess it is not really worth it....especially since I would have to go through the whole getting a fast stable overclock process which is just such an ordeal.

[WiseGuy]

glad to help. You could always overclock your E6700 if it isn't already

[Wesley Crusher]

IMO $100 for that chip is a steal, and you could probably get $30-40 for your existing chip.
Q9550 can overclock pretty well, so push it up to a safe 3.6ish and you'll be set for a while longer.

Otherwise if you really want you can spend around $200 for an old i3 530, a random H55 motherboard, and 8GB of RAM. OC that dual core to 4.2 GHz and you're set.

[Blitz Ap0C 552]

Thanks for the input.

[Blitz Ap0C 552]

Here is something funny. My cpu is not overclocked anymore......and I have no clue why.

Either somehow my overclock reset without me knowing.......or I slept walked to my computer and reset my settings LOL. No clue.

[monty slick]

That used to happen to me when there was a hard crash on my old MB.

[Blitz Ap0C 552]

Ya that is what happened I guess. I went into bios and everything was saved so it was easy to get back that overclock. I have never had that happen before.