Anyone still using LGA 775 as part of their main rigs?

[XX55XX]

I've been on LGA 775 since 2008 and haven't thought about upgrading to a new socket yet. My Xeon X3350 (which is really a higher-binned Q9450) is adequate for my current workloads (mostly gaming/general use). Sure, Battlefield 3 pushes my CPU to the 100% usage mark, but it's still playable.

I'm thinking about Haswell in the future, may be Broadwell, if I can stretch it far enough. I toyed with the idea of Sandy Bridge, but decided against it to save money, and well, wait for something better down the road...

 

[RyanGreener]

I've been on LGA 775 since 2008 and haven't thought about upgrading to a new socket yet. My Xeon X3350 (which is really a higher-binned Q9450) is adequate for my current workloads (mostly gaming/general use). Sure, Battlefield 3 pushes my CPU to the 100% usage mark, but it's still playable.

I'm thinking about Haswell in the future, may be Broadwell, if I can stretch it far enough. I toyed with the idea of Sandy Bridge, but decided against it to save money, and well, wait for something better down the road...

I used to use LGA 775 until I ditched desktops completely. LGA 775 is still awesome, especially if you've got a nicely OC'd Quad Core. Most real bottlenecks in newer games are GPU bound anyway.

 

[DaveSimmons]

My gaming system is still an E8400 at 3.0 GHz with 4 GB RAM and a gtx 560 ti.

I'll probably get around to building a Sandy Bridge system soon, but this has been working well.

 

[tweakboy]

I've been on LGA 775 since 2008 and haven't thought about upgrading to a new socket yet. My Xeon X3350 (which is really a higher-binned Q9450) is adequate for my current workloads (mostly gaming/general use). Sure, Battlefield 3 pushes my CPU to the 100% usage mark, but it's still playable.

I'm thinking about Haswell in the future, may be Broadwell, if I can stretch it far enough. I toyed with the idea of Sandy Bridge, but decided against it to save money, and well, wait for something better down the road...

Nov 2007 build below.....LOVE IT and never have used it to 100 percent load unless rendering audio. Projects take up avg 40 percent CPU usage,, Why upgrade ? I can compose and produce wonderfully. Prior to that I had a Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.5Ghz and I open 3 synths it goes to 100 percent load, now I can open 20 synths all real time along with plugins and its at 40 to 60 percent CPU load.

I love the huge OC I did on it...... its a champ! ASUS I love you! Thermaltake rocks!!! PSU hasnt given me any problem since 2007 ,,,, pump going strong, etc,,, giddy

 

[blckgrffn]

Yep. Still waiting to upgrade.

 

[IGemini]

Yup. Got the top of the heap in the non-extreme 775 CPUs. Served me pretty well. I'm hoping to build a new machine with either Ivy Bridge or Haswell, depends on when I get the necessary income.

 

[fffblackmage]

I had an E6320 overclocked at around 3GHz. It was fast enough for my needs, but I was looking for an upgrade to a quad core anyways. I was considering the Q6600/Q6700 (damn nVidia 650i didn't support Yorkfield), but given the price of even used Q6600s at just above $100, I decided to pick up a Phenom II X2 550BE and 785G mobo for $140. It was a bit of a gamble, but well, it paid off.

 

[nenforcer]

I just upgraded from an E6600 nForce 680i DDR2 board to a Xeon E3110 on a nForce 790i DDR3 board. I'll be LGA755 for at least another year or two along with possibly an ugprade to a quad core.

 

[Ventanni]

My Core 2 E6750 @ 3.2ghz is still kicking strong. Paired with 4GB of RAM and a Radeon 5850, it's served me pretty well. It's starting to show it's age though.

 

[FwFred]

Using my QX9770 as my main desktop. I'm looking longingly at a SB-E system, but my Blu-Ray transcoding still finishes by the morning if I run overnight. I also wouldn't mind a lower idle power since I tend to leave my system running... although that is more the fault of my 8800GT.

Of course I have two Sandy Bridge systems in my house, my i5-2400S for my HTPC and my i5 in my Macbook Air

 

[coolpurplefan]

I read Haswell will be on another socket. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2124146/intel-s-haswell-chip-socket

 

[Timecop1967]

Going Ivy as well. I hear it will be on 22nm die with 10-15 percent improvements......and a large graphical improvement as well. Suppose to be out 2nd quarter 2012. At that time the new Nvidia stuff may be out as well. I don't see going Sandy bridge with Ivy so close.....if I can wait that is.

 

[chin311]

I was until just last week. Went the i5 route on a z68.

coming soon will be a F/S thread on my e8400, gigabyte board, 4gb ddr2, and gts250

 

[Emo]

I still have my desktop with E8400 running at 4.2Ghz, 8GB ram, Crucial M4 128Gb and an overclocked GTX 285. I can play most modern games at reasonable frame rates but I do plan to upgrade by the middle of next year once Ivy Bridge and the new generation of video cards arrive. FYI, I find myself using my i7 Dell XPS laptop most of the time, even playing some games.

 

[Euchrestalin]

I'm still using my Core 2 Extreme QX9650 in my primary rig. I will be upgrading to the Core i7-3930K in March of next year but that is more for the X79 platform than a lack of power in my QX9650.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Don't we have this thread like every week?

There are a lot of Qxxxx owners floating around out there.

 

[ddarko]

I was running a Q6600 based computer that I had for almost 4 years but just switched to a 2500k system and am pleasantly surprised at the boost with general productivity and the games I play. The new system is noticeably more responsive for me, for examples, iTunes no longer takes 10 seconds to start. This isn't due to the fact that I did a clean install of Windows on the new system; the Q6600 computer was never as snappy even after the periodic clean install. As for games, I'm not a FPS or twitch gamer and the games I play - Civ 5, Guild Wars, Dawn of War 2, Starcraft - ran well on the Q6600, even with my AMD 5850 video card at 2560x1600 resolution, but there seems to be a real, non-placebo improvement in responsiveness with the 2500k system (video card has stayed the same). Again, everything is just more snappy and I appreciate that. I got to beta test Star Wars and am currently beta testing Diablo 3 and I think they run much better with the 2500k system at the 2560 resolution. I also think I will upgrade to the next gen video cards coming out early next year and suspect much of the benefit would have been lost with the Q6600.

I considered waiting for Ivy Bridge but decided it didn't make much sense for desktop systems. Clock-for-clock improvement over Sandy Bridge don't appear to be that large, especially when one considers there will be a price premium on Ivy Bridge CPUs and motherboards for a while. The significant integrated graphics improvements with Ivy Bridge are more relevant to notebooks, where I think the case to wait for graphics and integrated USB 3.0 is more compelling - I'm thinking of Apple notebooks - than for desktops with add-in graphics cards where the integrated graphics would be bypassed anyway. Besides, I did a little future-proofing in case Ivy Bridge turns out to be worthwhile by getting an Asus Z68 motherboard that supports PCIE 3.0 and will be compatible with Ivy Bridge with a BIOS upgrade. Everything that will be in Ivy Bridge's Panther Point chipset appears to be already available with Z68 motherboards.

 

[Obsoleet]

Q9450 clocked at 3ghz since launch day.

Waiting for Haswell.
More interested in ultrabooks anyway (Macbook Air<-no Trackpoint, blah, or, Lenovo x120e <- Brazos + Trackpoint FTW)

 

[Red Hawk]

Just replace an LGA 775 rig with an LGA 1155. It was an older Dell system, so I was limited to the Core 2 6000 series for upgrades. My little brothers still use the same sort of LGA 775 Dell PC, so I passed the Q6600 I was using on to them.

 

[cytg111]

Q9450 here as well. I think im jumping on IB, as i see haswell being put off for 2-3 years possibly longer due to the competition (or lack there off), IB may just be the sweetspot chip to get for the next 3-4 years.

 

[LoneNinja]

Never owned socket 775...but AM2+ performs similar and that's my main system used today. Too bad AM3+ flopped and Ivy is near enough I'd rather not buy Sandy.

 

[jsedlak]

Q9650 here, Q6600 in my server.

I actually just started playing around with OC'ing the Q9650. I figure if I burn it out, I'll just upgrade to LGA2011.

 

[Josh123]

Yup, running my E8400 @ 3.6ghz on my eVGA 680i board with 4gb of RAM and an eVGA 460 card. I think I'll be getting parts for Christmas this year so that will be great. Looking to get a new 1155 eVGA board and a i5-2500 chip.

I've been having a huge itch to upgrade here lately so we will see.

 

[DeathReborn]

Still running 2 775 systems, 1 as a HTPC (E2200, P45, 2600 Pro) & 1 as a File server (e6300, G33, IGP). Will probably replace the HTPC next year but only for top end Trinity so it can be used for casual gaming comfortably. The File server will run until 2013 at least.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I used an E8400 @ 4 Ghz system until mid-September of this year, when I built the box in my system. The E8400 was moved over to be used as a secondary system. Also, my server is a socket 775 system as well.