Hi People.
Santa has a surprise waiting for me at christmas - in form of a Intel Core2Quad Q9550.
My current system is in my sig, and my current cpu is a good oc'er (have had it running 3,9Ghz - but the chipset on my old motherboard wouldn't run stable and became too hot).
Now my questions are: What are your oc results on the Q9550?
1. what stepping did it have?
2. max oc on stock voltage?
3. max oc with upping the v-core?
I know a lot of you are probably thinking: "why go for an outdated 775 platform, with i5, i7 etc. prices falling?" - well I'm a student, and therefore can't afford a total system replacement. I have pretty ok hardware atm, and upgrading with a new mobo, DDR3 etc. would just cost too much.
How high will I eventually have to push the Mhz on the Q9550 to outperform my current E6750 running 3,5Ghz in singlethreaded applications?
Thanks in advance
Santa has a surprise waiting for me at christmas - in form of a Intel Core2Quad Q9550.
My current system is in my sig, and my current cpu is a good oc'er (have had it running 3,9Ghz - but the chipset on my old motherboard wouldn't run stable and became too hot).
Now my questions are: What are your oc results on the Q9550?
1. what stepping did it have?
2. max oc on stock voltage?
3. max oc with upping the v-core?
I know a lot of you are probably thinking: "why go for an outdated 775 platform, with i5, i7 etc. prices falling?" - well I'm a student, and therefore can't afford a total system replacement. I have pretty ok hardware atm, and upgrading with a new mobo, DDR3 etc. would just cost too much.
How high will I eventually have to push the Mhz on the Q9550 to outperform my current E6750 running 3,5Ghz in singlethreaded applications?
Thanks in advance