Who's staying with skt 775?

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ive been rockin this q6600 since about aug-sept 2007!!! i am going to stay with it until:

4gb ram dimms become the norm
6-8 core cpus are out (for a reasonable price)

i dont see a good enough bump in performance to go to an i5 (750) and only have 4gb of ram, and a quad core, that i already have. yes i could go 4 x 2gb but the system is maxed out from day 1. no room to upgrade.

the i7 (920-930) is nice, and fast, but i dont feel the performance is worth the money. plus the x58 platform is getting a bit dated. they are going to update it soon, so at this point i might as well wait (at least that is how i feel).
 
Sticking with E8400 at 4.2Ghz until Sandy Bridge. Even with only using one of my 260s I have no issues running any game that I play regularly. I see no reason to spend all of that money to upgrade to something that will be outdated within the next year.

My workstation is still rocking the Q9650 and 3 260s. I will not go with the 400 series until the price drop's or the next revision to go with Sandy Bridge.
 
And a athlon 2 X4 will be even more badass over your Q6600

So would a Phenom 2/3/4,

Or intels 930, which overclock to 3.8-4ghz easy

And the 930 at the same freq as a Q6600 will be that much faster.

So what is your point? Newer chips are faster? DUH!

The topic here is how many people actually feel like they need more speed right now over the system they currently have. Yes, there are many chips that are faster than my Q6600. However for now the Q6600 does everything I really need it to do. I can wait until the price falls further on current hardware or skip a generation and wait until sometime next year.
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts-update-1/Far-Cry-2-1.0.1,1401.html

Even an Athlon 2 X4 is faster then a Q6700 http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts-update-1/GTA-IV-1.0.3,1402.html

The Q6600= cpu limited.

People dont realize but the I7 920's are just that much more powerful, and thats at stock clocks.

Get a D0 core you should be able to get 3.8-4ghz on it, and there is no 775 platform that can touch that performance.

775 is EOL, and its slow compared to the I7



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There is very little difference in fps between the i7 920 and something like the q9650 clocked at the same speeds. And that's all she wrote. Outside of gaming is a whole different story though.
 
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There is very little difference in fps between the i7 920 and something like the q9650 clocked at the same speeds. And that's all she wrote. Outside of gaming is a whole different story though.

Thats why I was comparing a Q6600......
 
I sold my e8400 and p45-ud3p for $220 and bought my i5 750 and p55a-ud3 on a frys combo deal for $240 so it was a no brainer for me to swap.
 
I have needs for more PCI-Express lanes right now that P35 and therefore my Q6600 cannot provide, but it's only to run a secondary GPU to hook up my HDTV on HDMI so I don't have to swap cables, that's something I can live with until the next round comes.

I have my G0 Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz and 8GB Ram @ 908Mhz running totally solid day in and day out, also flashed my GTX 260 55nm Core 216 to 'SSC' specs a long time ago, also running totally solid. I've had this machine for the longest out of any of my computers, Quad to Quad just doesn't seem like a huge jump for me, and my GF has an i5 750 I built her and my friend has an i7 930 he got with an Asus P6T-SE on the Fry's combo deal, yes they're fast, but I got an SSD and guess who's rockin' it now.. yup.

If you've got a S775 machine like many of you do, I urge you to go SSD ASAP, it's how my machine should have been for this whole time, it's amazing how quickly things work once you remove the biggest bottleneck in the whole system, it was like opening the floodgates.

So yeah, right now the only mobo meeting what I want is the Rampage 3 Extreme that just came out, it's a great mobo with all the right features.

I do not care about SATA 6G on a non-intel chipset personally so I'm really hoping for that.
 
Thats why I was comparing a Q6600......

Re-read your own post. You claim no LGA775 cpu can touch the i7 920 and the q9650 is a cpu that can and does.


edit: Pffft, even a q6600 when clocked evenly with a i7 920 get's similar FPS. Forget that tom's hardware article.
 
I'm staying with LGA 775. My E8400 is not bottlenecking GPU or framerates in games for me. I'm the type of person that will ride hardware out until it's antiquated. Hell, I was fixing my socket 478 box tonight, reapplying TIM (9-10 years), thinking about selling the RDRAM modules...

If I had an older C2D like E4400, at this point I'd just buy an AM2+ mobo and one of the fast Athlons/Stripped down Denebs. Triple core. Slap the old memory in and bang.
 
Been rocking a E6600 2GB P965 mobo winXP 32bit since Sept 2006 and I am getting a new build itch.
920/930s have been out for sometime so probably when the next big thing hits (at an affordable price) I'll jump the gun.

If I had them nice 45nm Quads that OCed well, I probably wouldn't bother tho.
 
I still have my LGA 775 system with an E8600 running at 4.4ghz. I've built a new core i7 system but I have still yet to part with my beloved LGA 775 platform which has the e8600 with GTX 280 SLI.

I considered selling off the LGA 775 components and perhaps building another core i5/i7 system. Instead, I've purchased a used Q9650 for tinkering. I'm hoping to push this baby to a stable 4.2 - 4.4 ghz territory with air cooling.

I also purchased a new OCZ Vertex 120 Turbo as an upgrade for the "aging" Velociraptor sitting inside the LGA system.

Having used both LGA and Core platforms, I really can't recommend the core i5/i7 upgrade from LGA 775, especially if you're running the current system overclocked and your main activity is gaming on the rig. If you do heavy video encoding and other CPU intensive work, then you will definitely benefit from upgrading to core i5/i7. If mainly gaming, I say keep your money.

As it was stated earlier in the thread, putting a SSD in your rig is arguably the best performance upgrade that you can do for your system, especially with Win7 running on it.

My next project is to upgrade my HTPC HDD to a SSD.
 
I will be. I'll upgrade when Sandy Bridge comes out. My E8500 will not cut it though, and I plan on upgrading to a QX9650 soon - or something close to that.

I got back into the hardware market too late (personally) for i7. I'm looking forward towards 6 core/low power/low heat systems in the future. Hopefully SSD prices will be a tad bit better by then, and we'll have more games/programs supporting the newer technologies.

Will be a bit of a tough wait though, was tentatively planning an mATX i7 build, and have one of the last produced Freezone Elite (v2) units sitting in my room. I guess it won't see action for another 6-8 months :p
 
I will be. I'll upgrade when Sandy Bridge comes out. My E8500 will not cut it though, and I plan on upgrading to a QX9650 soon - or something close to that.

The trouble with upgrading to another LGA775 CPU is that many of the higher-end processors for that socket are either no longer in production or are way too expensive for the performance benefit. In fact, the amount of money that you spend for the Q9650 by itself can almost buy you a complete LGA1156 CPU/motherboard/RAM upgrade. In fact, the QX9650 and all of the other Core 2 Exterme CPUs are no longer in production, and they are selling for insanely high prices even used. As a result, you're stuck with your current E8500 unless you want to spend much more money than the performance improvement justifies.

By the way, Sandy Bridge will not come out until 2012 at the earliest because the new chipsets that are required of that architecture have been delayed yet again. As a result, the current LGA1156 and LGA1366 platforms will remain very much in production for at least another two years.
 
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I will be. I'll upgrade when Sandy Bridge comes out. My E8500 will not cut it though, and I plan on upgrading to a QX9650 soon - or something close to that.
At this point you'd probably be better off saving your money, Sandy Bridge isn't too far away. At least if you get a C2Q, buy something a bit cheaper.
 
I've still got my Q6600 rig running strong on a Intel media series mobo. Great system that I plan on keeping for a while.
 
My game rig is running a QX9560 @ 4.2, 8 Gb PC8500 and an ATI 5870 with an Intel 80 Gb SSD as a boot drive ..I see no compelling reason to upgrade right now
 
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I plan on upgrading to a QX9650 soon

Just FYI, the QX9650s aren't the best overclockers unless you're limited by your motherboard such that the unlocked multiplier allows overclocking where you would otherwise not be able to.

They were all early production chips with early steppings. With a regular Q9650 on the other hand you are guaranteed an E0 stepping. An E0 Q9650 will almost always overclock better than a QX9650, and should be a lot cheaper also.
 
With these new Celeron (Core 2's) coming out for low budget systems and higher end Q9550, the iX series needs to drop more in price to be able to make it worth while to make the jump.
 
Seriously? You're backing your opinion with a review from Tom's Hardware? Seriously? Tom's Hardware?


Try a reputable site instead:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/charts/index.php?pid=61,69,73&tid=2

After the thumbs up that HC gave for the GTX265 Tom's actually climbed above HC in the trust factor for me. Which is pretty sad since I'm not a fan of Tom's for the most part and usually avoid knowingly clicking on their links. You could have at least said Anand.
 
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i'm sticking with my e6850 and waiting for sandy bridge's h2 socket
 
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i'm sticking with my e6850 and waiting for sandy bridge's h2 socket

Holding on my q66 till sandy bridge



Same plan as I've got, my Q6600 G0 @ 3.4 is no slouch and the SSD brought it up a huge step in performance as well. I think my SSD purchase was a much better idea than doing a full system overhaul, I'm hoping sandy bridge is the next step for me because I do have a huge need to tinker with something right now...
 
The trouble with upgrading to another LGA775 CPU is that many of the higher-end processors for that socket are either no longer in production or are way too expensive for the performance benefit. In fact, the amount of money that you spend for the Q9650 by itself can almost buy you a complete LGA1156 CPU/motherboard/RAM upgrade. In fact, the QX9650 and all of the other Core 2 Exterme CPUs are no longer in production, and they are selling for insanely high prices even used. As a result, you're stuck with your current E8500 unless you want to spend much more money than the performance improvement justifies.

By the way, Sandy Bridge will not come out until 2012 at the earliest because the new chipsets that are required of that architecture have been delayed yet again. As a result, the current LGA1156 and LGA1366 platforms will remain very much in production for at least another two years.

At this point you'd probably be better off saving your money, Sandy Bridge isn't too far away. At least if you get a C2Q, buy something a bit cheaper.

Just FYI, the QX9650s aren't the best overclockers unless you're limited by your motherboard such that the unlocked multiplier allows overclocking where you would otherwise not be able to.

They were all early production chips with early steppings. With a regular Q9650 on the other hand you are guaranteed an E0 stepping. An E0 Q9650 will almost always overclock better than a QX9650, and should be a lot cheaper also.

I'm seeing both used and late packed new 08' QX9650 chips for about $300 shipped. Probably not going to overclock either. Not ruling out anything else either - I guess any QC will do, but I assume right now my system is very GPU heavy, and performance even lacks in BC2.
 
I'm seeing both used and late packed new 08' QX9650 chips for about $300 shipped. Probably not going to overclock either. Not ruling out anything else either - I guess any QC will do, but I assume right now my system is very GPU heavy, and performance even lacks in BC2.

For $300 you could pick up an i5 750 and P55A UD3.
 
I had a Q9550 @ 4.1 Ghz and GB P45. Went to a EVGA P55 LE and I7 860 @ 4.2Ghz. I didn't really gain anything - but after rebates and what I got from selling my rig I broke even so I saw it more as a horizontal upgrade anyways. If you are on skt775 and using a Q9xxx I'd say stick with it. If you have a dual core CPU, then definitely upgrade to a Q9x or i5/i7. More and more games are using multiple cores.


I wanted to sell the Q9550 and P45 before they weren't worth anything...mission accomplished
 
lulz.
Me and OP have nearly identical systems.
My machine does what I need perfectly for now. Couldn't ask for more for the time being.
 
4 pages and still no PENTIUM 4/D socket 775 users ;)

That's because many of those Pentium 4/D CPU users have Socket 775 motherboards that do not support any of the Core 2 CPUs at all due to hardware compatibility issues that cannot be corrected by a BIOS update. Those are the users that will be falling further and further behind the mainstream.
 
I just upgraded my s754 amd single core a month ago.

For $60. I got a used combo with a e3200, motherboard and memory. It's running at 3600mhz. It's plenty fast for me. I don't play any games that take advantage of more than 2 cores. The upgrade didn't cost me anything after selling my old parts. This system has a 1gb 4850 that I got for $65. I plan on getting a SSD; probably the 40gb Intel.
 
I had a Q9550 @ 4.1 Ghz and GB P45. Went to a EVGA P55 LE and I7 860 @ 4.2Ghz. I didn't really gain anything - but after rebates and what I got from selling my rig I broke even so I saw it more as a horizontal upgrade anyways. If you are on skt775 and using a Q9xxx I'd say stick with it. If you have a dual core CPU, then definitely upgrade to a Q9x or i5/i7. More and more games are using multiple cores.


I wanted to sell the Q9550 and P45 before they weren't worth anything...mission accomplished

Thats pretty much what I did but there are a few games that run better like my modded Oblivion and Fallout 3 installs and GTA4 but I'm not a big benchmark whore and didn't notice much difference elsewhere with gaming either.
 
eh, Still have the 775 Pentium 4, don't know if that counts XD.
Why do budget-conscious people want to upgrade from 775 to 1366 anyways? Tri-channel doesn't do much in real life apps....
 
I'm still with my S775. I don't think I'll upgrade for a while either since there is no point for me.
 
im staying on skt 775 because of budget... as a person that's dirt poor.. this is what i had to work with:

  • Intel Q8200 (Got Free)
  • 8GB DDR2-800 (Got Free)
  • XFX 750i Mobo (paid 65$)
  • XFX 650W PSU (paid 59$)
  • 2x Kingston SSDs 40GB (paid 75$ each)
  • 640GB WD HDD (Got Free)
  • nvidia GT 120 (Got Free)

with this being said.. and such a low budget i was on... and the fact i got a bunch of goodies for free.. skt 775 was the way to go
 
I'm really happy with the 2 rigs in my sig. My htpc will never be upgraded past s775 and my q9400 is a great overclocking value at the moment. I'll wait another generation or 2 before I jump.
 
im staying on skt 775 because of budget... as a person that's dirt poor.. this is what i had to work with:

  • Intel Q8200 (Got Free)
  • 8GB DDR2-800 (Got Free)
  • XFX 750i Mobo (paid 65$)
  • XFX 650W PSU (paid 59$)
  • 2x Kingston SSDs 40GB (paid 75$ each)
  • 640GB WD HDD (Got Free)
  • nvidia GT 120 (Got Free)

with this being said.. and such a low budget i was on... and the fact i got a bunch of goodies for free.. skt 775 was the way to go

Why buy $150 worth of SSDs and suffer with that awful GPU?!?! :p
 
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