Xeon 771 mod over q8300 Core2Quad?

[James_deen]

Hi friends!

My question is next:

I have a q8300 Core2Quad CPU installed in Gygabyte P43-ES3G motherboard that support bus overclocking, three phase CPU power block, 6gb of DDR 2. Titan tower cooler that was told is quite enough to cool overclocked CPU, if it's important I'll check the model name of that cooler. Right now CPU is overclocked to 3Ghz and works fine. GPU is Asus GTX 970. I saw that there are old Xeons available at EBay and Aliexpress for cheap. And that some models as e5450 or x5460/x5470 can be easy overclocked till 4Ghz and even higher! So if I'm not intended to invest in new rig, that of course I would build with Haswell or Skylake, will this change be meaningful and will I see any big improvement over my q8300@3Ghz? I can play all modern titles at ultra at about 30-60FPS, depends on game, but it may suddenly drops to 18-22 FPS.

Any advices concerning my question? Don't want to spend on new setup yet. There a lot of another ways to invest money! )) So please don't point me to buy new and throw old things out!
Sorry for my English.

 

[Gingerbread]

Will there be an upgrade? Yes. Meaningful? Wouldn't say so. Sure it will run better but not that much better, why not just overclock your q8300 higher? I've seen a q8400 clocked to 3.6ghz on stock cooling, so you should be able to hit at least 3.5ghz.

 

[James_deen]

Well I just read some threads about such change and some people who put Xeon e5450 or similar over Core2quad mentioned that they saw quite good changes...One guy said that his GTA V that was stuttering with q8200 continuously stopped doing so after Xeon upgrade. And some similar examples I have read about. But looking YouTube videos I can't decide, because someone shows not bad work of gtx 970 with e5450/x5460 where their FPS at least 35 minimum, and when another's shows no big improvements. There is a chance to get I5 3470s (exactly S version) for 50 backs, but I have to buy a mb and ddr3 ram, that's about 100 backs more. So if I spend this 150 backs will it be much more improvement over what I asked in my first post? I watched YouTube 3470 + gtx 970 videos, and seen no big difference too.

Any further advices friends?

 

[Gingerbread]

the 3470s is not worth it, you can overclock it at all so you will be spending $150 for a really minor boost which should be at the same level of an overclocked e5450, which would cost less.

 

[James_deen]

Gingerbread, thanx for your answers! What if I intend to do new rig, what minimal budget I need and what minimal specs of hardware should I buy. To see big improvement over current setup? At least 60 FPS at ultra and in 1080p only (no plan for 2k/4K).

 

[Gingerbread]

Well you have the GPU which is the most expensive part. All you will need is a motherboard + cpu + ram. An i5-6500 for $200 or so, along with $40 for 8gb ddr4 and $70 for a decent motherboard would give you those 60fps at ultra and will be able to run every game (when it comes to cpu) for the foreseeable future.