Would I notice any difference....

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

My current setup:

Asus P5Q
Q6600
HD 4870
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5

I really wanna upgrade everything (purely because I am a snob) but the recession tells me that for now maybe just videocard and memory.

So in terms of memory I was thinking of maybe Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5. But would I notice a difference at all?

Or am I best of waiting for a bit and upgrading to I7, appropriate mobo, DDR3 memory etc

Thanks in advance!

PaulieG · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
My current setup:

Asus P5Q
Q6600
HD 4870
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5

I really wanna upgrade everything (purely because I am a snob) but the recession tells me that for now maybe just videocard and memory.

So in terms of memory I was thinking of maybe Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5. But would I notice a difference at all?

Or am I best of waiting for a bit and upgrading to I7, appropriate mobo, DDR3 memory etc

Thanks in advance!

You are not going to notice much of a real world difference. Save your cash and buy an i7 or a AM3.

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
My current setup:

Asus P5Q
Q6600
HD 4870
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5

I really wanna upgrade everything (purely because I am a snob) but the recession tells me that for now maybe just videocard and memory.

So in terms of memory I was thinking of maybe Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 XMS2 PC2-8500C5. But would I notice a difference at all?

Or am I best of waiting for a bit and upgrading to I7, appropriate mobo, DDR3 memory etc

Thanks in advance!

Would you be interested in a small incremental upgrade perhaps?

4890 and a P5Q Deluxe?

Pm me for more details : ]

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Would you be interested in a small incremental upgrade perhaps?

4890 and a P5Q Deluxe?

Pm me for more details : ]

Thanks but I would be looking for a bigger performance upgrade than that! :toast:

FreedomEclipse · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Would you be interested in a small incremental upgrade perhaps?

4890 and a P5Q Deluxe?

Pm me for more details : ]

Just out of interest (& also because your british) how much for that Deluxe?? & whats the condition of it?

HalfAHertz · Jan 20, 2010

Do you OC that Q6600? You may get a better OC results out of it with some better memory, but that is questionable...I'd hold out a bit longer tho, if I as you and wait for the imminent price war after the release of GF100...

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
Thanks but I would be looking for a bigger performance upgrade than that!

Alreet well in that case + 1 to waiting for a while.

I find the q6600 to be plenty enough power for what I'm doing,but what do you use your system for?

I'm always E-shopping you see so maybe I can think of a cheap viable upgrade path : ]

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

HalfAHertz said:
Do you OC that Q6600? You may get a better OC results out of it with some better memory, but that is questionable...I'd hold out a bit longer tho, if I as you and wait for the imminent price war after the release of GF100...

No I don't do any overclocking at all! When is the GF100 due out?

pantherx12 said:
Alreet well in that case + 1 to waiting for a while.

I find the q6600 to be plenty enough power for what I'm doing,but what do you use your system for?

I'm always E-shopping you see so maybe I can think of a cheap viable upgrade path : ]

Haha, I mainly just do some gaming! Nothing more taxing than that!

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

Maybe a 5850 then?
5830s come out at the end of this month too (think 4890 but power effciant, direct x11, better production process, an more overclocking head room) the 5830s should be around 140-150 in the UK when they first come out, expect the prices to ramp up very quickly after though ( like they did with other 5 series cards)

By the by you should really consider over clocking, the q6600 can run at 3ghz with very little voltage increase, a nice safe small over clock that will yield decent results!

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Maybe a 5850 then?
5830s come out at the end of this month too (think 4890 but power effciant, direct x11, better production process, an more overclocking head room) the 5830s should be around 140-150 in the UK when they first come out, expect the prices to ramp up very quickly after though ( like they did with other 5 series cards)

By the by you should really consider over clocking, the q6600 can run at 3ghz with very little voltage increase, a nice safe small over clock that will yield decent results!

Yea looking at the 5850. I really don't know how to overclock and afraid I will blow up my pc, apartment and neighbours! :eek:

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

Its really easy actually, what cooling do you have on the chip at the moment ? just stock?

I think even on stock you should be able to do this.

Go into your bios, change overclocking options to manual from auto, change the FSB to 333 save and exit the bios

Your now running at 3ghz and it took less then 20 seconds to do

You won't even need to touch voltage settings for a 3ghz overclock auto will handle it perfectly.

Its how I'm running mine right now actually : ]

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Its really easy actually, what cooling do you have on the chip at the moment ? just stock?

I think even on stock you should be able to do this.

Go into your bios, change overclocking options to manual from auto, change the FSB to 333 save and exit the bios

Your now running at 3ghz and it took less then 20 seconds to do

You won't even need to touch voltage settings for a 3ghz overclock auto will handle it perfectly.

Its how I'm running mine right now actually : ]

Ok, I will give it a shot! But if I die your dead! :roll:

I am using the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
Ok, I will give it a shot! But if I die your dead!

I am using the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Oh those coolers are epic for the price, I've used a few on a few different builds.

It shouldn't blow up but I can't guarantee it, I imagine if I did guarantee it something like a lighting bolt would hit or something else incredibly unlikely :laugh:

If the overclock fails the computer will just restart and tell you the overclock failed anyway , its only HUGE overclocks were your risking anything really.

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Oh those coolers are epic for the price, I've used a few on a few different builds.

It shouldn't blow up but I can't guarantee it, I imagine if I did guarantee it something like a lighting bolt would hit or something else incredibly unlikely

If the overclock fails the computer will just restart and tell you the overclock failed anyway , its only HUGE overclocks were your risking anything really.

Ah crap, just realised that my bios doesn't recognise my usb keyboard! I will have to try and locate an old PS/2 one!

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
Ah crap, just realised that my bios doesn't recognise my usb keyboard! I will have to try and locate an old PS/2 one!

Want to know the most annoying thing?

There's an option in the bios for it to recognise USB keyboards, but for some reason certain boards have it set off as default :laugh:

HossHuge · Jan 20, 2010

If your smart enough to come to this website than your smart enough to overclock that Q6600. Here's some reading for you....http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=22916

:toast:

and good luck!

DublinDude · Jan 20, 2010

pantherx12 said:
Want to know the most annoying thing?

There's an option in the bios for it to recognise USB keyboards, but for some reason certain boards have it set off as default

So I noticed! That really doesn't make sense! Surely most keyboards are usb nowadays!

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

DublinDude said:
So I noticed! That really doesn't make sense! Surely most keyboards are usb nowadays!

You would of thought so, I've the ddr3 version of your board and it accepts USB keyboards by default, but the first one I had didn't ( Huzzah for RMAs!)

I've no idea why some boards have it set up and others don't.

DirectorC · Jan 20, 2010

My formula for you:

Step 1) Buy a 5850. Step 2) Be happy.

HalfAHertz · Jan 20, 2010

DirectorC said:
My formula for you:

Step 1) Buy a 5850. Step 2) Be happy.

0,5) Get more ram

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

HalfAHertz said:
0,5) Get more ram

4gb is plenty enough for someone who mainly games.

Ram is handy for people that like to watch 8 videos at once! :laugh:

DirectorC · Jan 20, 2010

Yeah I hardly see the point of even having more than 3GB. I had random stuttering in Crysis with 2GB, added 2 512 sticks, bam no more stuttering. Therefore, 3GB is the magic number.

pantherx12 · Jan 20, 2010

Aye : ]I'm using 4 at the moment but I did have 8 gb in this rig originally, it made zero difference to me, and I have ALOT of things open at once.

System Name	My Little System!
Processor	Q6600
Motherboard	Asus P5Q
Memory	OCZ PC6400 4GB
Video Card(s)	4870
Storage	1TB F3
Display(s)	Samsung T2450 24"
Case	Cooler Master ATCS 840
Audio Device(s)	Xtreme Gamer
Power Supply	Corsair 620
Software	Windows 7 (64bit)

Processor	5800x(2)/5700g/5600x/5600g/2700x/1700x/1700
Motherboard	MSI B550 Carbon (2)/ MSI z490 Unify/Asus Strix B550-F/MSI B450 Tomahawk (3)
Cooling	EK AIO 360 (2)/EK AIO 240, Arctic Cooling Freezer II 280/EVGA CLC 280/Noctua D15/Cryorig M9(2)
Memory	32 GB Ballistix Elite/32 GB TridentZ/16GB Mushkin Redline Black/16 GB Dominator
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix RTX3060/EVGA 970(2)/Asus 750 ti/Old Quadros
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB/WD Black M.2 NVMe 500GB/Adata 500gb NVMe
Display(s)	Acer 1080p 22"/ (3) Samsung 22" 1080p
Case	(2) Lian Li Lancool II Mesh/Corsair 4000D /Phanteks Eclipse 500a/Be Quiet Pure Base 500/Bones of HAF
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850G(2)/EVGA Supernova GT 650w/Phantek Amps 750w/Seasonic Focus 750w
Mouse	Generic Black wireless (5)
Keyboard	Generic Black wireless (5)
Software	Win 10/Ubuntu

System Name	My pc
Processor	Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard	Asus Rog b450-f
Cooling	Cooler master 120mm aio
Memory	16gb ddr4 3200mhz
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 3x 3070
Storage	2tb intel nvme and 2tb generic ssd
Display(s)	Generic dell 1080p overclocked to 75hz
Case	Phanteks enthoo
Power Supply	650w of borderline fire hazard
Mouse	Some wierd Chinese vertical mouse
Keyboard	Generic mechanical keyboard
Software	Windows ten

System Name	My Little System!
Processor	Q6600
Motherboard	Asus P5Q
Memory	OCZ PC6400 4GB
Video Card(s)	4870
Storage	1TB F3
Display(s)	Samsung T2450 24"
Case	Cooler Master ATCS 840
Audio Device(s)	Xtreme Gamer
Power Supply	Corsair 620
Software	Windows 7 (64bit)

System Name	Codename: Icarus Mk.VI
Processor	Intel 8600k@Stock -- pending tuning
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strixx Z370-F
Cooling	CPU: BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 {1xCorsair ML120 Pro\|5xML140 Pro}
Memory	32GB XPG Gammix D10 {2x16GB}
Video Card(s)	ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 512GB SSD (Boot)\|WD SN770 (Gaming)\|2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300\|2x 2TB Crucial BX500
Display(s)	LG GP850-B
Case	Corsair 760T (White)
Audio Device(s)	Yamaha RX-V573\|Speakers: JBL Control One\|Auna 300-CN\|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply	Corsair AX760
Mouse	Logitech G900
Keyboard	Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software	Windows 10 Pro
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Processor	R7 5700G
Motherboard	Asrock B450M Pro4
Cooling	Some CM tower cooler that will fit my case
Memory	4 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz
Video Card(s)	IGP
Storage	ADATA SU800 512GB
Display(s)	27' LG
Case	Zalman
Audio Device(s)	stock
Power Supply	Seasonic SS-620GM
Software	win10

Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Motherboard	MSI B450 Gaming Plus
Memory	GSkill 8GB Dual Channel DDR4-2800
Video Card(s)	MSI GamingX RX580 4GB
Storage	Kingston V300 240GB SSD + WD Green 2TB
Display(s)	ACER K212HL 27" + Haier 55" + Lenovo Explorer Mixed Reality Headset
Case	Enermax Ostrog (Red)
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA B2 750W
Software	Win10 64bit

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Processor	E8400 @ 4.0GHz (445 x 9)
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212+
Memory	3GB Corsair XMS2
Video Card(s)	EVGA 8800 GT 512
Storage	74GB Raptor + Caviars in RAID0
Display(s)	I-Inc 19" LCD 1440x900
Audio Device(s)	Audigy SE & Logitech X-540
Power Supply	Corsair 750TX
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