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Im behind by 5 years on comp.

tweakboy

tweakboy

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Soo for about 5 years I ran this thing at 3.7Ghz without a problem. Then my mobo died recently as you all know,, then I bought a used P5K and it wont overclock for anything.. not even 1mhz,,,,, payed 45 bucks for dat and it came in a new egg box. :thumbsdown: but comp works now but @ 2.4Ghz.

C2Q 2.4Ghz

How behind am I compared to a

Sandy Bridge 2600k

If my audio usage is 80 percent with a C2Q, what would a Sandy be 40 percent ? or less ?

My old man has a Sandy 2600k 4.2Ghz but my system is soo much faster,, like blows it away,,,,, I hate using that comp..22" screen too lol sux. the ssd is a-data 6gbps but its 375mbps and slow.

Soo the only diff I will tell from a C2Q and a Sandy is in audio production, maybe a little in games...hmm
 
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tweakboy said:
My old man has a Sandy 2600k 4.2Ghz but my system is soo much faster,, like blows it away,,,,,
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Done a virus/spyware scan on his system lately? The A-data SSD might be slow at random access, too; what's your SSD, if any?
 
I recently upgraded my Q9550 to i7-2700K
Moved over a Samsung SSD and gtx-570.

Nothing really jumps out performance wise in everyday stuff. I'm sure if I were benchmark chasing I could throw out a bunch of stats but so far nothing to write home about. Its still new though and I haven't done much with it
 
pauldun170 said:
I recently upgraded my Q9550 to i7-2700K
Moved over a Samsung SSD and gtx-570.

Nothing really jumps out performance wise in everyday stuff. I'm sure if I were benchmark chasing I could throw out a bunch of stats but so far nothing to write home about. Its still new though and I haven't done much with it
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Yes desktop speed will be the same. Games will also be the same in a way.

The Sandy is twice as fast as your old Qxxx. OC the sandy even faster...

Would be nice to have leeway,, at end of project Im at 80 or 90 percent cpu audio engine... with a Sandy OCed to 5Ghz I would be happy if it says 30 percent or 40 percent at most. That gives a lot of lee way. very nice..

Or if you do video editing you will notice diff in rendering, gl From what I learned on this thread its twice as fast. Imagine the OC , , its worth it.... I could throw another 30 synths and plugins at it,, wow... also I would use 64GB ram....
 
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I'm a little stunned at Tweakboy! At least someone in his fam-damn-ily has a Sandy system.

All I can say is this. I had an OC'd Q6600 @ 3.0 (not 3.7) with an HW-controller (large cache and dedicated processor) in RAID5. Of course, I was running VISTA-64, which was a slug by comparison. Win 7 64 really pepped it up, but I gave it to my bro.

I just don't think there's any comparison in more than one way. Speed. OC-ability. power-savings. And even speed again -- with a cheap 60GB (good quality) SSD and even SATA-2 HDD with the ISRT feature on boards Z68 and later.
 
With how cheap reliable SB setups are right now, especially in the classifieds section it's a great deal to upgrade to. + If you do any multi core work the 2600k's are just amazing in my opinion. Price to performance a used z68 with a 2500k or 2600k that overclocks well is just amazing. As you know pretty much all SB chips will do 4.5ghz and more. Currently at 4.5ghz my chip won't even hit 70c with linx running, not even package temps. Love it.
 
I just upgraded a coupla months ago from a Core2Duo E8400 3.0GHz overclocked to 3.825GHz
to a SB i5 2500K 3.3GHz overclocked to 4.5GHz with out changing anything in my BIOS except 'By all cores=45'. With the same 2 GTX 460 1GB (SLI) my benchmarks doubled and now I can run all my games at least 50% faster. My E8400 was bogging down my 2 GTX 460s.
 
Don't feel bad, tweakboy. I bought my motherboard in March of 08, its seen a power hungry Phenom I 9850 (overvolted, overclocked), a power hungry Phenom II 940 (overvolted, overclocked), and now my very power hungry power hungry overclocked Thuban. Who knows how much longer I have... 🙂
 
Oh, I think the music production software will be well over twice as fast with enough RAM. That in itself should be enough to justify the upgrade. It's also not just the single-threaded performance, it's the heat dissipation. The Q6600 is obsolete.
 
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