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Originally Posted by benxiii
i have even seen people suggest 6850 for e5400/5500 XD
and these pentium chips do overclock better.
And btw, what was your m8's tv res ?
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He was running at first 1680*1050 then moved to 1080P and it ran most games pretty well except for black ops for some weird reason.
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Originally Posted by TRWOV
Apparently you can upgrade to a Core 2 Quad. Dual cores are fine but Quads are better for the next wave of games. With 1366x768 limiting your GPU output I'd say that the 7770 is plenty. As for the CPU you don't need to upgrade unless you find yourself having low performance.
The 2.8 Quad is a Q9500 I assume? That's a fine chip. If you want to upgrade to a Quad that's a pretty good option IMO.
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What he said^ thats exactly what you should do!!
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Originally Posted by benxiii
i can get a core 2 duo 2.93 ghz (stock speed) for free. But is a core 2 quad worth upgrading ? though it won't cost me much.
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If you can get it for free then why not, clock it up the same or higher then what you already have and that should be a increase and for free you cant go wrong.
Honestly if you can get a quad for at 2.8GHz or higher for cheap then go that way instead, many games love more cores, trust me im now running 8cores and im getting increases in all games compared to my older quad.
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Originally Posted by benxiii
sorry my mistake, i meant the duo @ 2.93... Is this chip okay ? Or were you mentioning the quad. I can get the duo for free and quad would cost a little. Is it worth upgrading to quad ?
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The chip would be fine paired with the 7770
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Originally Posted by benxiii
so the e5400 won't hold back 7770 much ? I can oc it to 3.8
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i dont think so, i think it would run pretty sweet with your current set up, but moving to a CPU with more cores is a must in todays gaming for the
future.
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Originally Posted by tastegw
7770 is a good gpu, not a beast, but should do you fine imo
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Yep i would agree
