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CaldabOg   07-26-2009 at 12:18:06 AM

I currently have one of the original C2D E6600 2.4 and an older motherboard that only supports ddr2 667, which I have 2 gigs of and my PCIe x16 slot is not 2.0 either.

my GPU is nvidia 8800 gts 512 which is fine for me atm, ill upgrade that in a bit, i'm just thinkin of my processor and mb atm.

I wanted to do an upgrade that wouldnt kill me budget wise so I wont go the i7 route, so I was thinking of getting a Q9550 and new mb that has PCIe 2.0 and supports like ddr2 1066 ram and getting about 4 gigs of it. I'm a big gamer, so would this upgrade be worth it for the next year or so?

thx in advance ^^

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MikeJRamsey   07-26-2009 at 01:14:14 AM
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I think very much so.

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AKM880   07-26-2009 at 01:20:08 AM
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Remember to get a good heatsink if you plan on overclocking that Q9550.

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jj463rd   07-26-2009 at 01:29:55 AM
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You could also wait 2 months or so until the Core i5 CPU line comes out and then you won't have an end of line motherboard

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CaldabOg   07-26-2009 at 03:50:50 AM
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thx for the reply's guys 8)

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