Upgrade from q6600 to i7 920. worth it?

The only answer I'll provide at this time is the very best deal for a boxed 920. If you have a MicroCenter (http://www.microcenter.com) store near you, I suggest you go there to get the Intel Core i7 920, if you decide to upgrade to one, as the price is only $200! :-)

-- MaSoP

im just thinking if its worth the money spend, the only game i see benefiting from i7 right now is gta4. or maybe wait for q1 2010.....

You have a really nice system there!!! jeje

Anyway...I would look for some benches...and if there´s a huge difference in performance between your C2Q and the I7´s that justify those 590$ (which I don´t think)...then go for it...

I have an overclocked Q66 as well (@ 3.2), and have thought of making the same move.

My deal is that at home the most stressful thing I do is gaming, which is more GPU dependent than CPU. And so far, I can't fault my little Q~ship.   So I don't have a "real" justification.

I *do* have the burning itch to build a new rig, though. And I will likely do so this year. The i5 is supposed to be done in September, and the idea of having 16 lanes of PCi 2.0 on~die is rather intriguing for my particular needs. We all understand that current GPUs aren't anywhere near saturating a PCi 2 buss so from a total throughput POV I'd expect to see only small differences. But having it on~die has the potential to lower latencies considerably, and that does have some potential (in my eyes, at least) for a nice performance boost.

Of course, it's mostly conjecture at the moment since there's no real benchies of production(like?) setups. But it's interesting enough that I'm going to wait and see.


Besides - Car Insurance is due in August, so...  

Hey why not take the IHS off(if you got the balls) then go direct die watercooling and overclock like hell then let it go maybe 2 years until it dies and then get some new cpu or maybe what will be at that time an old i7. I must say I think the i7s are great but try to get a D0 stepping!  

actually i pushed my q6600 to 4.0ghz on that heatsink and capacitor blew off on my asus mobo, i got it rma'd for free LOL. im afraid to go past 3.4ghz now

Must have been a *** motherboard, or shitty capacitors  

I think your PC is fast enough right now... you should't have any probles with any game up to date, so you might just wait 4-8 months for an upgrade... you might get newer thechnology at a better price

Go for i7 920.Eventhough q6600 is good, u will gain more fps in i7 due to 8 threads.