Should I just wait for a new socket to come out? Or upgrade my Q9550.

[spinejam]

i jumped from q9550 to i5 750 and the performance improvement is basically nill.

i would wait. u already have a great quad core. just put that money on a graphics card. wish i did.

**** same here: i went from a q9550@4.0 to an i5-750@4.0 and couldn't really tell much difference (11.4 sec 1m superpi vs. 10.2 for the i5 -- whooopeee!). if gaming is your thing, save the dough for a better videocard!

 

[aigomorla]

to be honest, for the past 3 yrs my upgrade has been fueled by greed.

I dont honestly see anything wrong or limited by your current processor.

If you overclock it to like 3.2ghz i can see at least you pulling another year if not two.

Unless your doing some intensive gaming... or you handle a lot of VM applications, i see no need to upgrade unless you are also fueled by greed.

IF your gonna go from a Q9550, id suggest u go lga1366 and not lga1156.
You'd have more of an upgrade from LGA775 -> LGA1366 vs a diagonal to side grade on LGA1156.

 

[Rezident]

DITTO...
I would wait for Intel to finally make up its mind about S775 replacement...
Personally I am tired of this Socket 1156/1336 shit...

Exactly my thoughts.

OP I honestly can't see a Q9550 at 3.6 being your bottleneck in games.