Q9XXX vs Core i7 930 vs Sandy Bridge vs AMD?

[GundamF91]

Personally I don't think Q9xxx to i7 is worth it. Anything within one or two generations is not that big of a deal as long as you have high enough Mhz. I am running my Q9450 easily at 3.4 all day long and most of the time my 4 cores are just resting.

As for you gamers, you will benefit far greater from a new GPU than a new CPU. Trust me.

 

[Zargon]

you OC the q9450 with a 4850?

 

[aigomorla]

Personally I don't think Q9xxx to i7 is worth it. Anything within one or two generations is not that big of a deal as long as you have high enough Mhz. I am running my Q9450 easily at 3.4 all day long and most of the time my 4 cores are just resting.

As for you gamers, you will benefit far greater from a new GPU than a new CPU. Trust me.

lga775 was limited to only SLI or XFire... u couldnt do both.

If your the type to scale cards, or you want to scale, the newer intel platform offers the ability to have both.

While i agree with ya on the cpu overheard difference, its the platform features your really concentrating on.

But yes, GPU is always the first upgrade in gaming, then followed by I/O of your hard drive sector.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Whats the point? Unless there are a lot of people living in your house, I see no reason to have that many.

Well heres 1 good reason if your single . Through the years I got alot of file share music . Noway will I expose that music to online spies. The fines are hugh and my music file is really really big . So ya a seperate PC for your media and other doc. are smart choice.