Q6600 to Core i7

[Sem]

currently have a Q6600 @ 3.6 and im tempted to get a i7 920 D0 and clocking it to 4Ghz

i can sell my old cpu mobo, ram to my dad and the money from that should cover the x58 mobo and ddr3 all i will need to do is pay for the cpu

think it is worth the upgrade

i know alot of people will say its not but you must remember the total cost of the upgrade will only be the cost of the cpu itself

the q6600 has been an awesome chip and great servant but its pretty much 2006 tech

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: TheWildOne
think it is worth the upgrade

i know alot of people will say its not but you must remember the total cost of the upgrade will only be the cost of the cpu itself

Well hopefully no one will tell you that until you first tell us what you use your computer for so some estimate of an improvement in your computing experience can be assessed to the proposed upgrade.

For example, if you tell us you primarily play solitaire and use IE8 to check your yahoo email account then you are right to suspect the majority of the feedback to you will be that the price/performance of the upgrade is non-compelling in your situation

However if you tell us you do A/V encoding and transcoding some 16+ hrs a day and you hope to upgrade so it finishes in half the time and with half the power consumption then we can start to weigh the pro's and con's of the proposed upgrade and no doubt it will favor you pursuing one.

On the other hand...one should never underestimate the barely controllable desire some of us have to spend other people's money (let's leave my political party affiliation out of this :laugh so perhaps I am predisposed to say "yes, yes buy that i7 and do it NOW, buy two or three if you can!" regardless of your computing power needs

 

[arkcom]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: TheWildOne
think it is worth the upgrade

i know alot of people will say its not but you must remember the total cost of the upgrade will only be the cost of the cpu itself

Well hopefully no one will tell you that until you first tell us what you use your computer for so some estimate of an improvement in your computing experience can be assessed to the proposed upgrade.

For example, if you tell us you primarily play solitaire and use IE8 to check your yahoo email account then you are right to suspect the majority of the feedback to you will be that the price/performance of the upgrade is non-compelling in your situation

However if you tell us you do A/V encoding and transcoding some 16+ hrs a day and you hope to upgrade so it finishes in half the time and with half the power consumption then we can start to weigh the pro's and con's of the proposed upgrade and no doubt it will favor you pursuing one.

On the other hand...one should never underestimate the barely controllable desire some of us have to spend other people's money (let's leave my political party affiliation out of this :laugh so perhaps I am predisposed to say "yes, yes buy that i7 and do it NOW, buy two or three if you can!" regardless of your computing power needs

This is pretty much what I do, but I went ahead and upgraded from a q6600 to i7. I did it with almost no additional cost though.

 

[California Roll]

Originally posted by: TheWildOne
currently have a Q6600 @ 3.6 and im tempted to get a i7 920 D0 and clocking it to 4Ghz

i can sell my old cpu mobo, ram to my dad and the money from that should cover the x58 mobo and ddr3 all i will need to do is pay for the cpu

think it is worth the upgrade

i know alot of people will say its not but you must remember the total cost of the upgrade will only be the cost of the cpu itself

the q6600 has been an awesome chip and great servant but its pretty much 2006 tech

Is it just me or have there been a lot of "do you think I should upgrade? I really want to upgrade, so please tell me I should upgrade, even if I don't really need to upgrade" questions lately?

As Idontcare says, what's your usage with your computer? I happen to do a lot of video encoding for work and I'm definitely thinking of the i7 these days. Other than this, I wouldn't.

 

[Sem]

mainly use it for gaming

i do encode regularly x264 and xvid for my ps3 and psp but normally i leave it overnight so time to encode is not really an issue

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: California Roll

Is it just me or have there been a lot of "do you think I should upgrade? I really want to upgrade, so please tell me I should upgrade, even if I don't really need to upgrade" questions lately?

i just wanted a W3580... :X *kicking the can*


On a serious note:

Greed says go ahead and go for it!

Common sense says, you wont see much difference because your doing the long tasks when your not in front of your computer.

The i7 wont improve your gaming noticibly, unless you like to SLI or Xfire. (multi platform is noticible).

The i7 @ 4ghz will give you an automatic epenis level over 4000, add sli or xfire it doubles, add water it goes up 1000 more points.. yada yada...

 

[California Roll]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: California Roll

Is it just me or have there been a lot of "do you think I should upgrade? I really want to upgrade, so please tell me I should upgrade, even if I don't really need to upgrade" questions lately?

i just wanted a W3580... :X *kicking the can*


On a serious note:

Greed says go ahead and go for it!

Common sense says, you wont see much difference because your doing the long tasks when your not in front of your computer.

The i7 wont improve your gaming noticibly, unless you like to SLI or Xfire. (multi platform is noticible).

The i7 @ 4ghz will give you an automatic epenis level over 4000, add sli or xfire it doubles, add water it goes up 1000 more points.. yada yada...

I think it's awesome that you name your computers.

I hereby name my main rig "Q-bert". My WHS is now "Wiz".

My 4 year old already calls our Mini 9 Netbook "Atom", after he put Astro Boy stickers on it.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: California Roll
Is it just me or have there been a lot of "do you think I should upgrade? I really want to upgrade, so please tell me I should upgrade, even if I don't really need to upgrade" questions lately?

It's definitely been a hot cycle lately...I imagine with the deteriorating economic environment last year, which merely accelerated in the fall, caused a number of enthusiasts to delay discretionary spending on hardware upgrades of this nature.

And now with a good 6 months behind all the noise, and pretty much anyone who hasn't been laid off by now is starting to breath some sigh of relief as they figure they aren't going to be laid off going forward, discretionary spending is going to pick back up.

For us enthusiasts this means there is probably an incoming bubble of DIY upgraders who have been itching for an upgrade since last fall and are finally feeling comfortable enough to step up to the plate. Q3 could be a pretty healthy one for the tech sector.

Originally posted by: TheWildOne
mainly use it for gaming

i do encode regularly x264 and xvid for my ps3 and psp but normally i leave it overnight so time to encode is not really an issue

Yeah then you'd definitely appreciate some newer hardware under the hood then. Your power-consumption will drop considerably too. (even with the i7 OC'ed)

 

[StinkyPinky]

The only time I stress my cpu is with gaming, so I'll just skip this round of CPU's and buy a 32nm cpu in about 18 months.