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Hey, let's say if i wanted to play next gen cpu intensive games at 30 fps without stutters, would this cpu work?

I've asked a similar question a while back, but i have an dual e7500 and i experience stutters, can q9650 handle next gen games at 30 fps well?

I don't care about the graphics and i know that my cpu is bottlenecking my gpu right now, very tight budget btw and my mobo doesn't support better and newer cpu than that.
 
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No worries, you can overclock Q9550 to 3.4GHz without a sweat. As for the games requiring i5 as a minimum, I call that one bulls*it. Virtually *any* true quad core you can find today, from Core 2 Quad and Phenom X4 to the latest ones, can run all games at satisfactory level as long as your graphics card is up to the task and as log as you have enough RAM (8GB recommended). There are a handful of CPU-limited games (like Planetside 2, World of Tanks) which would perform somewhat slower, but most other games work just fine. I was able to get BF4 at max details to never go below 50 fps with R9 280X, it even ocassionaly spiked at 120+ fps. Do not worry, game requirements are overrated.

If you, for instance, take a look at Witcher 3...
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I used this CPU until a month ago with R9 280X (yeah, huge disparity, but it worked great). As long as your game is not CPU limited (more specifically single thread performance limited) you should be fine. This is still a solid CPU which can run games much better than 30 fps if they are more GPU oriented.
 
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you mean ghz? lets say a game demands i5 minimum, what will i experience? i just dont want stutters
 
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mikasa9

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Yes was also looking more for q9550 but im concerned about the ghz it has
 
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No worries, you can overclock Q9550 to 3.4GHz without a sweat. As for the games requiring i5 as a minimum, I call that one bulls*it. Virtually *any* true quad core you can find today, from Core 2 Quad and Phenom X4 to the latest ones, can run all games at satisfactory level as long as your graphics card is up to the task and as log as you have enough RAM (8GB recommended). There are a handful of CPU-limited games (like Planetside 2, World of Tanks) which would perform somewhat slower, but most other games work just fine. I was able to get BF4 at max details to never go below 50 fps with R9 280X, it even ocassionaly spiked at 120+ fps. Do not worry, game requirements are overrated.

If you, for instance, take a look at Witcher 3 requirements, they call for i5 2500k as the minimum and i7 3770k as recommended. In reality, both CPUs are nearly identical in terms of gaming performance. You can also see that on AMD part, minimum is Phenom II X4, and this CPU is a match to Core 2 Quad, not i5. Obvious flaw in performance requirements.
 
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