Upgrading Intel Processor

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atechuno

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I'm at a split road. I currently have an Intel Pentium Dual Core E6800 (Windows 7 Ultimate system) and I'm wanting to upgrade my system. I plan on swapping my Core 2 Duo E6320 (Ubuntu system) out with the E6800 but don't know what to get as far as a 'better' processor for my Windows 7 Ultimate system. I also within a couple of months plan on upgrading to an Nvidia GTX graphics, just to keep that in mind and allow room for games such as Black OPs II.

http://processormatch.intel.com/CompDB/SearchResult.aspx?Boardname=DG43GT

That's the supported processors for my board.

Windows 7 Ultimate
60GB Mushkin SSD
500GB Seagate/WD (can't remeber)
Asus 520GT 1GB
8GB DDR2 800mhz
Intel E6800

Ubuntu
128GB Mushkin SSD
320GB Western Digital
Galaxy/Gigabyte 520GT 2GB
4GB DDR2 800mhz
Intel E6320

Thanks in advance y'all!
 
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fatboytyler
The Intel Core Quad series is certainly the last true upgrade path for that socket. It will certainly start to struggle significantly more and more the next few years for gaming. Now for standard browsing and what not it'll be great. Make sure you find the Q8300 on the site that you listed and ensure that your Motherboard and BIOS is compatible. It should be, just to ensure it
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Disregard that last post. I misread something...

The Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 should show very significant improvement over what you have and is LGA755


EDIT: OR the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 if you can find it and get it at a good price. I'm not sure which one would better the Intel Core 2 Quad or the LGA755 Xeons. The Quads still hold up decently well in modern games. And like I said, will be a huge improvement over the current CPU
 
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The Q8300 for less than 150: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Q8300-Processor-BX80580Q8300-LGA775/dp/B0037HPZAI/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1368282698&sr=1-2&keywords=Intel+Core+2+Quad

However there is not an incredible amount of performance gain, but if you're doing rendering and using multithreaded production software then it will be quite nice. Here is a comparison of the E6750 and Q8400, so they aren'y the exact comparisons we are looking for, but they are close:

http://anandtech.com/bench/Product/89?vs=60

EDIT: Since you're planning on gaming with it one day, the 4 Cores of the Q8300 will be much nicer in gaming than 2 Cores.
 
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ah, thanks. I'll look into this one. Just want to try and make this system last as far as gaming and performance - just built it from the ground up last year or in 2011, pretty sure last year. So it's fairly new.
 
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The Intel Core Quad series is certainly the last true upgrade path for that socket. It will certainly start to struggle significantly more and more the next few years for gaming. Now for standard browsing and what not it'll be great. Make sure you find the Q8300 on the site that you listed and ensure that your Motherboard and BIOS is compatible. It should be, just to ensure it
 
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