Need CPU upgrade advice

[Rakewell]

Greetings all,

Trying to upgrade my rig a bit, would like to get a boost in games, if at all possible.

My current setup:

C2D E6700 (OC'ed to 3.3 GHz)
680i SLI
4 GB DDR2 800
EVGA GTX 280

2 Questions:

1.) Will I notice a difference in performance if I upgrade to Wolfdale 8400/8500?

2.) If so, which chip to you recommend for gaming: 8400, 8500, or something else?

3.) Better to wait for the i7 coming in the next few months?

Thanks for reading.

Cheers.

Rakewell

 

[happy medium]

Question:

1.) Not really
2.) I don't
3.) I don't think it's gonna improve gaming from what I read.

I suggest upgrading to a q9550 and overclocked it to 3.8 when more games take advantage of 4 cores.

 

[Rakewell]

Originally posted by: happy medium
Question:

1.) Not really
2.) I don't
3.) I don't think it's gonna improve gaming from what I read.

I suggest upgrading to a q9550 and overclocked it to 3.8 when more games take advantage of 4 cores.

Thanks for the quick reply-

Probably a completely un-answerable question, but when do you predict games will start to take advantage of the quad core design? A year or two, mebbe more?

Thanks-

Rakewell

 

[happy medium]

I would think mid/end next year.

 

[Rakewell]

Great... thanks happy.

Rakewell

 

[rgallant]

-having a E6700 @ 3.6 I upgraded to a E8600 ,for a test I set the E8600 to 3.6 ,and it was a 10-15% speed increase .in the bench marks eg.superPi 1m 14.xxsec. down to 12xx same speed .
-I run it at 4.1 and in some crysis settings I see 90+ cpu useage on my G15 keyboard so it's got to help.
-on the other hand if you could clock the E6700 @3.8-3.9 you could see a big improvement
also ,if it dies, it dies then upgrade. I myself don't like over stressing things.
-but try a higher overclock with penty of cooling and wait for the i7 only weeks away.