Spend $140 to overclock Q9650?

Jet3030 · May 24, 2015

I currently have a Dell Optiplex 780 with a Q9650, R9 270 OC and 8gbs of 1066mhz DDR3. It runs "The Witcher 3" smooth, on high settings (except NPC count is medium) at 28-36fps. I made space for the R9 270 OC by eliminating the Dell cpu air-cooler duct with a water cooling mod.

Here is my question: Should I buy a 775 mobo off eBay for $80-100 and move all my parts into a $40 case? This would allow me to overclock my Q9650, R9 270 OC and RAM for about $140. From what I've researched, most people say an overclocked Q9XXX is still okay

The mobo I'm looking at is a Gigabyte that supports Xfire, the auction is at $81 right now. I'm not saying I'm going to, but a matching Powercolor R9 270 OC is $129.00 w/ MIR on Newegg. With DX12 unifying GPU resources, and the ability to overclock, this could be a very capable machine running 2x 270's.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

SimonEyez · May 24, 2015

No, you would be better off saving for a full upgrade to Haswell.

Jet3030 · May 24, 2015

SimonEyez :

That's always the answer ... It would honestly take me a year to accumulate all the parts of a $700-1000 system. $140 will get me a low end Haswell motherboard and that's it.

SimonEyez · May 24, 2015

You're wasting money trying to spend that much just to squeeze a bit more out of such an old and outdated CPU.

maxalge · May 25, 2015

Jet3030 :

All you need is ~$230 ish for the mobo + cpu. Keep your components.

Sell your old mobo + cpu, upgrade your gpu...

Jet3030 · May 25, 2015

SimonEyez :

Everything that I have read so far shows that an overclocked (4.0-4.2ghz) Q9650 won't even bottleneck a card like a GTX690. If that is the case, it won't hold back 2x R9 270's. Even if I had the cash to do a new build it would have to be AMD to save a few hundred dollars.

Jet3030 · May 25, 2015

maxalge :

The only thing I could swap over would be the GPU and PSU. I might be able to use the water cooler but I hacked up the kit pretty good to mod it. The CPU is still going for $100 on eBay but the mobo is almost worthless, maybe $30.
This is my list http://pcpartpicker.com/p/twvfcf. Minus $120 when I sell my mobo and Q9650. So about $280, that's not too bad. I guess I will start saving my pennies. Thanks for all the input.

PS. I forgot about reselling my RAM. That's another $55. Brings it down to $225, maxalge was right on the money, pun intended.

maxalge · May 25, 2015

Jet3030 :

maxalge :

The only thing I could swap over would be the GPU and PSU. I might be able to use the water cooler but I hacked up the kit pretty good to mod it. The CPU is still going for $100 on eBay but the mobo is almost worthless, maybe $30.
This is my list http://pcpartpicker.com/p/twvfcf. Minus $120 when I sell my mobo and Q9650. So about $280, that's not too bad. I guess I will start saving my pennies. Thanks for all the input.

PS. I forgot about reselling my RAM. That's another $55. Brings it down to $225, maxalge was right on the money, pun intended.

Save that money on the seidon, grab a "k" i5 to go along with that z97 mobo.

Run that cpu stock until you save some cash down the line, get a aftermarket cpu cooler on sale. Profit.

Jet3030 · May 25, 2015

maxalge :

Jet3030 :

maxalge :

The only thing I could swap over would be the GPU and PSU. I might be able to use the water cooler but I hacked up the kit pretty good to mod it. The CPU is still going for $100 on eBay but the mobo is almost worthless, maybe $30.
This is my list http://pcpartpicker.com/p/twvfcf. Minus $120 when I sell my mobo and Q9650. So about $280, that's not too bad. I guess I will start saving my pennies. Thanks for all the input.

PS. I forgot about reselling my RAM. That's another $55. Brings it down to $225, maxalge was right on the money, pun intended.

Save that money on the seidon, grab a "k" i5 to go along with that z97 mobo.

Run that cpu stock until you save some cash down the line, get a aftermarket cpu cooler on sale. Profit.

This looks like a really good deal with 8gbs of RAM. What is your opinion of the mobo? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128723

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