Few questions.

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Lxcivic2k1

Discussion Starter · Nov 9, 2008

I'm getting tired of my 5600+ giving me low fps in CS:S, yes its sad

But I was looking at some stuff on newegg and figured a Q6600 or an E8400 are a good price but was wondering what would be better? I know the E8400 can hit 4GHz on air, but I know the Q6600 can OC quite well too(I had one @ 4GHz with water in school)

I'm mainly curious if I would see a big jump or am I just expecting too much from my PC @ 1280x1024 with everything maxed. I figured with an E8400 and a P45 Neo or Neo2 will put me around $300 so if I get annoyed enough I could splurge that much for a simple upgrade.

Would a Q6600 at 3.2-3.4 be as good as a E8400 at 3.8-4 since alot of the newer games are taking advantage of multiple cores.

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sabermetrics

· #2 · Nov 9, 2008

if you're into gaming, a dual core is really all you need... most applications and games do not make use of the third and forth core of a quad core, though it is nice to have for benchmarking and stuff like that...

The newer games still rely more on the 1st and 2nd core, so I would recommend you get an e8500 E0 and OC it to 4.0Ghz

If you are getting a Q6600, you should know that the newer batches aren't great at OC'ing, as most of them have high vids (1.3215V)...

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gibsonnova74

· #3 · Nov 9, 2008

My vote goes for the e8400. If you are going to use your rig for general use and gaming, a duo is all you need. If you plan on doing coding,folding, or any other utility that requires muli cores, then get a quad. For most people, the quad is just bragging rights, but it's not necessary.

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OverclockTheStock

· #4 · Nov 9, 2008

Css gamer on a budget? Get an E5200, and overclock it to 3.8GHz.

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Lxcivic2k1

Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 9, 2008

Another option I guess would be a new monitor, I've been watching an Acer 24". You think 1920x1200 would take some stress of the CPU and leave it more on my 3870 which should be fine for CS:S and maybe a few others.

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sabermetrics

· #6 · Nov 9, 2008

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Originally Posted by Lxcivic2k1

a bigger monitor will not decrease the stress from the CPU... the video card does most of the work in displaying a visual, so its requires a better graphics card... so, you will see a fps drop with games, unless you upgrade your graphics card...

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Lxcivic2k1

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 10, 2008

Well I know I'm limited by my CPU because I can turned down the graphics and still get the same fps, maybe 10 fps more, but still below 60 at times. Basically what it comes down to is: need new CPU and want a new LCD which will need a new GPU, but I'll update my GPU in Q1 anyway seeing how that's my usual scheduled upgrade time.

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borito4

· #8 · Nov 10, 2008

YOu might also consider another 4gb or 2gb of ram

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