What cpu should i buy for my lga 775?

[niksonrex88]

Right now i have my E6750 OCed to 3Ghz but it still bottlenecks hard in some games so i want to go for an intel core 2 quad. I found a really good price on ebay for 11$ a q6600. Now should i get it or save up more money to get something like a q9450 or q9550? I mean i heard the q6600 is pretty good when overclocked so i dunno thats why im writing this.

 

[Lutfij]

Can you share the specs to your system like so:

Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

I ask since not all board will support the revised lithography Core 2 Duo's/Quad's. On another note, it's not just a bout dropping a processor and going for an overclock. The rest of your components will help you in that endeavor.

To add, what sort of games are you looking to tax the system with the new CPU? Please don't include etc. in your sentence.

 

[DSzymborski]

Hard to answer without knowing your exact motherboard.

 

[Martell1977]

The big question here is: What motherboard do you have? That will determine if you can even run the q9550.

That being said, and for now assuming that you can run it, the q9550 is a great CPU. My alternate machine has one and it's OC'd to 3.5ghz. (OC levels vary from CPU to CPU, so this is not necessarily typical). The q6600 was a great CPU, for it's time, the price performance was perfect, especially when OC'd. But the q6600 was surpassed about a year later. Pretty much all C2Q CPU's were great overclockers.

Here's the comparison:
https://ark.intel.com/compare/29765,33924
The q9550 is better in every way.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Xeon x5450, oc it and basicly same or much better perfomance than FX and dual cores i3

To note, Q6600 misses instructions against Q9XXX

 

[william p]

The Q9650/Q9550 both outperform the Q6600 3Ghz OC. The Q6600 OC made it's bones by outperforming the much more expensive Q6700 back in the day.
The first 3 examples here show how they perform (CPU scores of course).
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-OptiPlex-780/3883
If you can OC the Q9650 a 47% or more CPU score is possible.

 

[niksonrex88]

Ok sorry guys i forgot lmao:
Mobo: P5K the Base Model
Ram: 4x2GB 800Mhz ddr2
GPU: GT 730 1GB Gddr5
PSU: 400W
Im also going to be getting a 550W psu in the following months cause i want to upgrade the gpu. Im looking to run For Honor, R6S and DS3 on low obviously 720p. I tried all of them with this cpu and it isnt even that bad. R6S is playable but is verry laggy when the map is loading (when im picking an operator) for honor is also playable but the game drops rarely and when it does it disconnects me from the server and DS3 is unplayable cause when i turn the fps drops to 20.

 

[DSzymborski]

Ok sorry guys i forgot lmao:
Mobo: P5K the Base Model
Ram: 4x2GB 800Mhz ddr2
GPU: GT 730 1GB Gddr5
PSU: 400W
Im also going to be getting a 550W psu in the following months cause i want to upgrade the gpu. Im looking to run For Honor, R6S and DS3 on low obviously 720p. I tried all of them with this cpu and it isnt even that bad. R6S is playable but is verry laggy when the map is loading (when im picking an operator) for honor is also playable but the game drops rarely and when it does it disconnects me from the server and DS3 is unplayable cause when i turn the fps drops to 20.

You can, in fact, go up to a Q9650, but make sure your BIOS is up-to-date.

Also note that this will primarily be an upgrade on games that use more cores. The single-core performance isn't that much better, so a lot of games you won't get a huge boost. Upgrading to a 750ti or something would probably
get you a larger improvement relatively.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Get xeon X5450, OC it to 4GHz and you're done.

 

[william p]

http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asus-P5K/3357
You can see some over 50% CPU scores here. The Q9650 if OC runs as good as anything else and doesn't require any of the modifications that the X54xx xeons require.
You could step up to a GTX 1050 for 1080P gaming without buying a bigger PSU. GTX1060 3GB would be good also if you have the 6 pin PCIe cable.

 

[niksonrex88]

Ok sorry guys i forgot lmao:
Mobo: P5K the Base Model
Ram: 4x2GB 800Mhz ddr2
GPU: GT 730 1GB Gddr5
PSU: 400W
Im also going to be getting a 550W psu in the following months cause i want to upgrade the gpu. Im looking to run For Honor, R6S and DS3 on low obviously 720p. I tried all of them with this cpu and it isnt even that bad. R6S is playable but is verry laggy when the map is loading (when im picking an operator) for honor is also playable but the game drops rarely and when it does it disconnects me from the server and DS3 is unplayable cause when i turn the fps drops to 20.

You can, in fact, go up to a Q9650, but make sure your BIOS is up-to-date.

Also note that this will primarily be an upgrade on games that use more cores. The single-core performance isn't that much better, so a lot of games you won't get a huge boost. Upgrading to a 750ti or something would probably
get you a larger improvement relatively.

In RO2 for example my cpu is at 100% on ultra while gpu sits below 50%. Its not the gpu. And there is the thing where i can make the cpu use all cores all the time. I am currently using it. And i watched benchmarks on yt and it can run most modern games compared to my cpu. So yeah.

 

[niksonrex88]

Nah i belive ill need a 550W before getting something like a gtx 1060.