Q6600 Still Relevant or Upgrade?

[jjblanche]

I have a Q6600-based system overclocked to 3.6 GHz with a G92 8800 GTS GPU. I've been traveling for work the past few months and the rig has been in storage but I was running Diablo 3 maxed or close to it if I remember correctly.

Fast forward to now and I'm about to dust it off and get playing again, perhaps with some contemporary games (might give battlefield 4 a go). I'm wondering if the Q6600 will present a significant bottleneck? I do plan on replacing the the GPU with something a bit more current like a GTX 650 Ti or similar but I'd like to keep the mobo and CPU as long as possible before a full system upgrade, at least for another year or ideally longer. I'm running 1680x1050 res and will continue to do so most likely until upgrading the whole machine.

Although the GPU struggled right out of the box with titles like Crysis I never felt the system was CPU bound. Although clock for clock I'm sure newer processors will handily beat it I don't think at 3.6 GHz it's unusable or destined for the trash heap any time soon. What do you guys think?

 

[spentshells]

Have a look at this, you may want to stick it out with the Q6600 @3.6

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=817

Really interesting stuff.

Really you are good for a gtx760, now that prices are down personally I may consider a 770 because they are getting quite cheap.

I have a GTX 570 and I really do not feel the need to upgrade the CPU at all.

A new 7870 can be had for 180 a gtx 660 can be found around the samethe GTX760 as low as 230

Good or bad the Q6600 still does what it is supposed to do.

I had a 3rd Generation i3 33xx and the q6600 @ 3.33 was far better in nearly every way except the obvious additional power used. Much more stable frame rates using the same vid card.

 

[Gaidax]

It is about at the A10 APUs or lower end Haswell I3s'.

I guess you can tough it out for another year, since your GPU is a total disaster by today's standards.

 

[SuperGamerBoy]

Upgrade the gpu to gtx 660 or 760, then upgrade the cpu and full system when broadwell or Skylake launches