Who here feels the Q6600 still has a good amount of life left in it? when playing games my G15 says processor usage is around 60% and that includes other tasks in the background. Im running a fairly conservative 3.6 GHz overclock with my x48 (no board voltage changes, no VTT changes 1.44V on water) and I dont think I need to bump it up to 3.8-4 Ghz. I see that being done later on once it gets older and I feel its more expendable if it blows up.
What are your thoughts on this?
I've been running a Q6600 for the past year and half and there's nothing I've thrown at it that it can't handle. Outside of stress programs, there's not a game out that I've haven't been able to play at 1900x1200 with all the eye candy enabled. I'm running 9x430 on a 333 strap; my RAM runs at 1722 Mhz. I'm running a SSD for my OS and a pair of RaptorX in RIAD 0. The RAID is about as quick as the SSD in regard to sequential reads / writes. My bottleneck resides in my video cards. Looking at synthetic benchmarks, my system appears a bit lackluster compared to a x58 system. x58 is only about 5%-7% faster than what I have now. I've got a QX9650 waiting in the wings that I'll pop in soon. I hope I can clock the hell out of that chip. x48 is a good chipset, but it was cut short by x58. The C2duo quads are very good relevant chips. Judge for yourself by the longevity of this thread. It's close to 3 years old. I didn't even get that much longevity from my S939 board with a dual core Athlon 4400+!
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