[nirantar]

i m having an C2D E8400 installed on a Asus P5qc overclocked to 3.6ghz(stable)with DDr2 RAM's (4 gigs), ge force 9800 gtx+
i am planning to upgrade the cpu to a C2Q Q9650 which also has a 3.00 ghz stock clock but has 2 xtra cores,,,,,
i want to know that what will be any performance gain after upgrading,,,
i m mostly intrested in gaming and have problems wid the e8400 while running Grand Theft Auto 4(texture quality dosent go above medium) and even on medium,the frame rate sum times drops to as low as 22 fps
,,,,,

will there be any gain by upgrading the processors,,,,,

 

[arbalest]

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Originally Posted by nirantar i m having an C2D E8400 installed on a Asus P5qc overclocked to 3.6ghz(stable)with DDr2 RAM's (4 gigs), ge force 9800 gtx+ i am planning to upgrade the cpu to a C2Q Q9650 which also has a 3.00 ghz stock clock but has 2 xtra cores,,,,, i want to know that what will be any performance gain after upgrading,,, i m mostly intrested in gaming and have problems wid the e8400 while running Grand Theft Auto 4(texture quality dosent go above medium) and even on medium,the frame rate sum times drops to as low as 22 fps ,,,,, will there be any gain by upgrading the processors,,,,,

YES!!!

Night and Day! Especially in GTA IV.

 

[nirantar]

thnks bro,,,
will the texture quality go upp

 

[mcpetrolhead]

yes.
GTA IV relies heavily on the processing power of the cpu, you chould see a very nice increase in FPS