Need help Upgrading. Core 2 Quad Q6600 VS Q9400
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Hey Forum, I need help upgrading my processer, as some of the newer games rely more dependantly on Quad. Example GTA IV, runs 25-30fps on medium 1024x768, yet i have a HD4850 and the recommend requirements are 8600GT or HD3870 for the game. So this chip hasnt been to bad it has performed very well:
Pentium Dual Core E6300 2.80GHZ @ 3.60GHZ 1066FSB
3DMARK06 CPU Score: 3200
3dmark06 Overall Score: 13200
So im kinda puzzled on what processer to get,
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Dont mention any other processers cause where i live these are £50 cheaper or $80 cheaper than retail.
Thanks in advance
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Q8400 is a bit faster clock-per-clock and at stock than the Q6600.
But I suspect the problem is with your graphics card as much as it is with your CPU.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-balanced-plat...
According to Tomshardware's building a balanced pc pt1, a E6300 @ stock 2.8GHz gets around 35fps average at 1280x1024 with max details and 0 AA. Your 3.6GHz overclock should net you the same performance as the E8400 - it should get you around 45fps.
The benchmarks state that the 4850 wasn't able to run it very well since the game is a video-memory black hole. The view distances and other settings suck up a lot of VRAM. Turn it down a bit and see if it helps.
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"The amount of available memory for each graphics core determines the detail levels Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV allows to be used. Rather than bypassing this constraint, we basically cranked settings for the 896MB per GPU available on the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 295. Note that, here, if you were using cards with 1GB per graphics processor, you could further raise Shadows to Very High and set view distance to 30%.
Even at the lowest resolution, the Radeon HD 4850, with only 512MB of memory, needed to be omitted from GTA IV testing."
But I suspect the problem is with your graphics card as much as it is with your CPU.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-balanced-plat...
According to Tomshardware's building a balanced pc pt1, a E6300 @ stock 2.8GHz gets around 35fps average at 1280x1024 with max details and 0 AA. Your 3.6GHz overclock should net you the same performance as the E8400 - it should get you around 45fps.
The benchmarks state that the 4850 wasn't able to run it very well since the game is a video-memory black hole. The view distances and other settings suck up a lot of VRAM. Turn it down a bit and see if it helps.
"The amount of available memory for each graphics core determines the detail levels Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV allows to be used. Rather than bypassing this constraint, we basically cranked settings for the 896MB per GPU available on the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 295. Note that, here, if you were using cards with 1GB per graphics processor, you could further raise Shadows to Very High and set view distance to 30%.
Even at the lowest resolution, the Radeon HD 4850, with only 512MB of memory, needed to be omitted from GTA IV testing."
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Bluescreendeath said:
Q8400 is a bit faster clock-per-clock and at stock than the Q6600.But I suspect the problem is with your graphics card as much as it is with your CPU.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-balanced-plat...
According to Tomshardware's building a balanced pc pt1, a E6300 @ stock 2.8GHz gets around 35fps average at 1280x1024 with max details and 0 AA. Your 3.6GHz overclock should net you the same performance as the E8400 - it should get you around 45fps.
The benchmarks state that the 4850 wasn't able to run it very well since the game is a video-memory black hole. The view distances and other settings suck up a lot of VRAM. Turn it down a bit and see if it helps.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/0/2/229394/original/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20IV%201280x10.png
"The amount of available memory for each graphics core determines the detail levels Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV allows to be used. Rather than bypassing this constraint, we basically cranked settings for the 896MB per GPU available on the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 295. Note that, here, if you were using cards with 1GB per graphics processor, you could further raise Shadows to Very High and set view distance to 30%.
Even at the lowest resolution, the Radeon HD 4850, with only 512MB of memory, needed to be omitted from GTA IV testing."
Idk if i could trust that benchmark as i play GTA IV 1920X1080 With medium - very high 40 view distance 20 detail distance at 25fps around town and 60-80fps inside airport Average of maybe 40-50fps, but thats same with any other resolution average of 40fps and in town 25-30 and somestimes 35-40 the fps seems so jumpy which makes me think its a CPU Bottleneck.
Anyways thanks for the information can somebody tell me why the Q8400 is worth avoiding for? And i have a Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L. It OC pretty well ive had a Q6600 in the past @ 3.3ghz max with this board.
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