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Stupido   01-21-2009 at 02:05:55 PM

In the light of the latest price drop on C2Q I started to wonder if I should upgrade my gaming rig.
Currently I have Q6600 running @ 3.6 GHz (450x8) on GA-P35-DS3R and 4 GB RAM (Video side is GTX280 on 24'' display).

So the question are: should I upgrade:
- the motherboard (get rid of the PCIe 1.1 to avoid possible future bottlenecks) to P45 based (I like GA-P45-UD3P)?
- the CPU to Q9650 (again, I'll try to overclock as much as possible)?
- both, motherboard & CPU? But the issue here would be, if I upgrade both, isn't it better just to go for i7 and have better support on multi-GPU and overall performance? kind of future-proof?

Thanks in advance. :hello:

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mi1ez   01-21-2009 at 03:03:21 PM
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Don't forget, you'd need new RAM if you went i7, bumps the cost up more.

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mford66215   01-21-2009 at 03:21:00 PM
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Ack! He's talking about upgrading the same rig as I run on right now!!!!!

You sir, need a family. There's just WAY to much money running around in your pockets for your own good. FYI - I can help you with that. :)

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Stupido   01-21-2009 at 03:25:31 PM
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Don't forget, you'd need new RAM if you went i7, bumps the cost up more.


Indeed, but than you get SLI and CF @ full 16x PCIe 2.0... :D so for gaming rig, that is very very interesting... ;)

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Stupido   01-21-2009 at 03:27:44 PM
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mford66215 wrote :

Ack! He's talking about upgrading the same rig as I run on right now!!!!!

You sir, need a family. There's just WAY to much money running around in your pockets for your own good. FYI - I can help you with that. :)


help me with what? :D

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