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It will not work near as fast as with an I5 cpu. You should have at least a 3.0GHz I5 or better although an I3 might be fine until you run into quad core gaming (dual core with HT does not count). I uprgarded from a QX6850 3.0GHz to an I5 Ivy Bridge @3.0GHz to be able to get the GFXC to run...

I5 by a long shot. I installed an I5 Ivy bridge 3330 3.0GHz today and it beats my QX6850 core 2 quad 3.0GHz by a long shot in gaming. Core 2 quad was holding my 670 back, but now it's running way faster. So yea, an I series intel chip is faster clock for clock. Example: Crysis 1 and 2 (the...

Are you over clocking the processor or anything else ? If so you might be over doing it and/or don't have adequate cooling. Over heating would cause something like that to happen. Other issues like memory or a bad chip could do that too. Over heating is the most common issue though. I...