E8500 vs Q9550

[Apolonas]

Hello guys, one simple question: is it really worth to upgrade cpu from E8500 to Q9550 for better gaming experience? Or i should plan to get new mobo, new ram and get i5 at least? My gpu is AMD HD7870 OC edition. My budget isn't big, that's why i wish that getting Q9550 would be enough since i already got 8gb ddr2 ram.
Thanks!

 

[reedo_43]

That is a big cpu upgrade. Does you mother board support it? It is however nowhere near as big as buying new parts as you probably know.

 

[BadActor]

Your in a tough spot. Just upgrading the CPU with the GPU you have now won't be make much of a difference unless you are playing CPU intensive games or want to play ones that require quad core. And you can't just upgrade the GPU much as the CPU would become a bottleneck. I think I would just start saving for a new build and make do for now.

 

[06yfz450ridr]

save your money you wont see a huge boost anymore, either will bottle neck any decent gpu.

I threw my 7970 in this free q9400 pc for testing and even overclocked it bottle necked and ran pretty bad. unless you know your board supports this cpu and youc an grab one for next to nothing its not really worth it IMO

 

[Chris Droste]

both chips are 45nm and are hella OC-able. Toms did a comparo a while back, pulling 4.5GHz on air with the Q9550 and keeping up with some older i5 systems. if you're on a tight budget and willing to upgrade, you can really stretch out some of those 775 systems. that may relieve a LOT bottlenecking on the GPU but iirc will not fully clear it. with Skylake out you may be able to score some Devil's Canyon or IvyBridge stuff quite cheap, though for the most part if you're in a good position financially you might as well go for a new Skylake setup.

like what BadActor was saying, unless you're playing games that are CPU-bound you potentially could be stuck with no difference at all to the bottom line. stock setup i think is 3.1Ghz Dual core vs. 2.83Ghz Quad. 4 years ago that was a good move, now....ehhhhhh.

 

[Apolonas]

I am mostly playing cs:go which i think is cpu intensive game. I might try saving for new mobo and cpu. Which cpu from i5 would be the cheaper the better? I wish you understand what i mean by saying that. Or maybe AMD cpu could be betyer choice for me since i have AMD gpu and maybe amd cpus are cheaper?
I just found these for sale:
MB : ASUS A88XM-PLUS.
CPU : AMD ATHLON 860k
What about this? I know way more about intel cpus and i know nothing about amd (socket models and so on).
Sorry for my english and thanks for helping, i really appreciate it!

 

[unreal9400]

Time for a new build.