Is it worth it to change from sl9um to slacr q6600??

[LeadGaming212]

Title says my question.
Is it worth it to change to slacr from sl9um q6600
Purely becauss this model gets very hot (81c) while gaming and yes my cooler is on correctly with arctic mx4

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'd say - it's worth getting a completely new system.
But if you're willing to spend only $10, then sure - upgrade to Q6600 G0 stepping (slacr).

 

[LeadGaming212]

Well, this is just my second system, my main rog has a 4790k with 16gb ddr3 and gtx 960 so i guess as they are so cheap i could get it as it is a good improvment for better oc and power stuff and heat 😉

 

[BFG-9000]

No, it's not worth it when for $25 you could get a Xeon x5460 modded to fit your socket 775. It adds 4MB cache and has a higher multiplier of 9.5 so you can reach 3.5GHz at just FSB369 with less stress on the motherboard, and because it's a 45nm chip will draw only ~105w at that speed which is exactly what your 65nm B3 stepping Q6600 uses at the stock 2.4GHz. At 3.0GHz the 45nm Quads draw just 72w while your B3 Q6600 there is 125w. So if your reason for changing is temperature, go 45nm.

The Gigabyte Ga-965p-ds3 is verified to work with it and it's not surprising your BSEL padmod didn't work because Gigabyte boards use a lookup table instead of reading the pads. You will need a BIOS modded with added microcodes. And preferably a 2.0 or 3.3 rev board, as while the 1.0 board uses the same BIOS, it only has a three-phase power VRM.

The even better x5470 with a multiplier of 10 is probably too expensive to be worth it at $50, double the price. But even that is the same price as a Q9650 with its multiplier of 9, which doesn't need any modded BIOS.

 

[LeadGaming212]

I know i didnt say this on my other posts but the board i tried the bsel mod on was a crappy foxconn mobo but i think i know how to do the bios thing. adn btw my budget isnt massive like (im from uk so £15) would probs be max. but i guess a better cpu would work better with my gtx 550 ti.

 

[BFG-9000]

x5450 is £21 and the same as a £46 Q9650 except you have to flash the BIOS with Xeon microcodes.

At 9 x 400 it's 3.6GHz and 125w.

 

[LeadGaming212]

yeah.... it seems to hard for me to flash bios to this mobo as it requres a floppy drive -_- like come on now its 2017 even dvd/cd are obsolete... the only way i know of flashing bios's are with a memory stick...

 

[BFG-9000]

It doesn't require a floppy. Just boot to Q-Flash utility by pressing "End" button on bootup (instead of "Del" to enter BIOS), then browse to the file on your Fat32 formatted USB stick or hard disk.

 

[LeadGaming212]

https://gyazo.com/ae1249e016363d4e13ed4703fcc54ce5
https://gyazo.com/5a24fc589aeceec277bab372ddc4fa89
https://gyazo.com/6ef1107204a7211358fe71364aced0f4
Thats what its coming up with?? what do i click?

 

[BFG-9000]

The USB stick has to be Fat16 or Fat32. Doesn't work with exFAT or NTFS, because the BIOS has no driver for those. And if it still doesn't work it's probably best to try a small stick in one of the sizes that was available back in 2008.