- Nov 23, 2012
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I am thinking about going for one last upgrade hurrah on my nearly 5 year old desktop. I'm looking at the Q9550 used on ebay.
For some reason my Q6600 can no longer hold an overclock more than 2.50ghz anymore. I have just attributed this to the CPU being old age.
So, I have been running at stock for quite a while now. I was thinking about getting the Q9550 and then overclocking it to about 3.2-3.3ghz or so. I was wondering if it makes sense financially to buy a Q9550 if it was around $100.
I do gaming and lots of programming... primarily web/SQL development with a virtual machine server running at the same time.
current specs:
Gigabyte P45-DS3L LGA 775
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz w/ Arctic Freezer 7
8 GB PC6400 DDR2 800 RAM (Recent upgrade from 4gb)
120 GB Intel 330 SSD (limited to 3gb/s) (Recent upgrade from 320gb seagate)
1TB Hard drive
Asus 9800 GT (512 mb)
Antec Eco NEO 400w PSU (Recent upgrade)
Thanks in advance for any insight/advice!
For some reason my Q6600 can no longer hold an overclock more than 2.50ghz anymore. I have just attributed this to the CPU being old age.
So, I have been running at stock for quite a while now. I was thinking about getting the Q9550 and then overclocking it to about 3.2-3.3ghz or so. I was wondering if it makes sense financially to buy a Q9550 if it was around $100.
I do gaming and lots of programming... primarily web/SQL development with a virtual machine server running at the same time.
current specs:
Gigabyte P45-DS3L LGA 775
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz w/ Arctic Freezer 7
8 GB PC6400 DDR2 800 RAM (Recent upgrade from 4gb)
120 GB Intel 330 SSD (limited to 3gb/s) (Recent upgrade from 320gb seagate)
1TB Hard drive
Asus 9800 GT (512 mb)
Antec Eco NEO 400w PSU (Recent upgrade)
Thanks in advance for any insight/advice!