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That's not really an upgrade. Staying with the same architecture will yield slight gains. But first gen core 'i' processors like the i7 9xx, i7 8xx and i5 7xx series were about 15% faster clock for clock than your Core2 based chip. Then the second gen core 'i' Sandy Bridge 2xxx chips were a huge game changer with another 20% clock for clock over the first gen. Then you had 3rd gen Ivy Bridge 3xxx chips adding another ~8% IPC gains over Sandy and now 4th gen Haswell 4xxx chips have added another 10% over Ivy Bridge.

So you are looking at almost a 50% improvement in IPC from Core2 to Haswell. Meaning at identical speeds of say 3.5Ghz the Haswell is half again as fast. And then overclocking. Core2 at it's best tops out around 4Ghz...
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The TRUE had decent reviews but both are really lower end coolers. The TRUE is discontinued. What are you cooling and what is your budget?
 
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My budget probably $100 for the most. I wanna go with with water cooling however im afraid it might leak and say bye bye to my pc. Im currently using coolermaster 212 evo my cpu lapped and overclocked from 2.66ghz to 3.2ghz qx6700 I know its an old chip I just never overcloked it since I got it. The only reason I wanna push this chip higher is cause is bottlenecking my GTX 560 do you think OC to 3.5-6 will do for my gtx560?
 
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To get significantly better performance than your Hyper 212 Evo you are going to need to go with something high end like the Noctua D14 and it's not worth $80 to squeeze 100-200Mhz out of an obsolete CPU.

There is certainly no guarantee your CPU will even overclock higher even with a several hundred dollar custom water loop. I had an E6600 I got to 3.4Ghz but it was only a dual core and ran much cooler. I think a good Q6600 tops out around 3.4Ghz. Maybe 3.6Ghz with a 'lucky' chip.

As chips age they become less likely to overclock as much as they would new also. Even at normal voltages a process called electromigration will degrade the chip.

So really it's up to you. Spend $80 on a high end air cooler or even $100 on a closed loop cooler ( they are safe and don't leak ) to maybe get a few hundred megahertz out of an obsolete CPU or save the money for a system upgrade.

 
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Well my system is kinda old anyways except the CM case i just never ever overclocked it until just now that i had the guts to do it. My mobo is a EVGA 750i Old i know. Maybe ill just upgrade to a QX9770 3.2 GHz? lol. and a faster bus speed mobo?
 
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That's not really an upgrade. Staying with the same architecture will yield slight gains. But first gen core 'i' processors like the i7 9xx, i7 8xx and i5 7xx series were about 15% faster clock for clock than your Core2 based chip. Then the second gen core 'i' Sandy Bridge 2xxx chips were a huge game changer with another 20% clock for clock over the first gen. Then you had 3rd gen Ivy Bridge 3xxx chips adding another ~8% IPC gains over Sandy and now 4th gen Haswell 4xxx chips have added another 10% over Ivy Bridge.

So you are looking at almost a 50% improvement in IPC from Core2 to Haswell. Meaning at identical speeds of say 3.5Ghz the Haswell is half again as fast. And then overclocking. Core2 at it's best tops out around 4Ghz. Sandy/Ivy/Haswell can hit closer to or even over 5Ghz depending on your cooling and chip.

Then we talk about things like memory bandwidth and support for the newest standards like SATA 3 and USB 3 and PCI-E 3.0 and there is no reason at all to upgrade something obsolete with something else obsolete. The only way I would spend money on dead tech is if I truly could not afford to upgrade anything else and I would keep it as cheap as possible.
 
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Alright then...I guess i can upgrade later to a Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz maybe or even better. for 24/7 use i don't think i would need OC that sucker i do alot of photoshop though im not a heavy games however i play a few lol. What motherboard do you think i'll suit best for that chip? 250 range please.
 
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