Looking for a significant e6750 @ 3.5ghz upgrade

[MagickMan]

Been thinking about a q9550 since I live near microcenter and it will only be $180. I can probably get $60 for my e6750 and I'll only have to spend $120. Is the q9550 a good overclocker like the e6750?

3.6-3.8GHz is pretty standard on stock voltage, with a little more juice 4-4.2GHz isn't too difficult either with decent RAM.

 

[severus]

The main thing that i want to upgrade for is load times in bad company 2. It annoys the hell out of me that I join a server before my friends but they beat me in. I'm almost positive this is a HDD issue. If that's the case an SSD might better suit my needs.

 

[mazeroth]

Did you know that an E5200 @ 3.6 is as fast as am Athlon II X4 630 at stock (2.8)?

This has to be one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen. You're taking an overclocked CPU against a non-overclocked. Also, this may be true for a dual threaded benchmark. Now, let's compare them in something that can use four cores, say, 3DS Max or GTA4. It won't even be close. THEN, we can overclock the 630 by 25% with ease and it will wipes its ass with the E5200.

 

[Rifter]

If you are strictly looking at load times a SSD is the best bet. Or a pair of really fast HDD's in raid.

 

[MagickMan]

The main thing that i want to upgrade for is load times in bad company 2. It annoys the hell out of me that I join a server before my friends but they beat me in. I'm almost positive this is a HDD issue. If that's the case an SSD might better suit my needs.

Yes, that's almost certainly a HDD issue. In WoW I always login and change zones faster than my guild mates, usually the difference is pretty dramatic. A good SSD would help with that.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This has to be one of the worst comparisons I've ever seen. You're taking an overclocked CPU against a non-overclocked. Also, this may be true for a dual threaded benchmark. Now, let's compare them in something that can use four cores, say, 3DS Max or GTA4. It won't even be close. THEN, we can overclock the 630 by 25% with ease and it will wipes its ass with the E5200.

I was talking about the Nuclearus benchmark numbers. Both score around 12,500. That benchmark checks both single-threaded as well as multi-threaded performance.