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I play on a 28" LCD with a resolution of 1920x1200. I play a mix of games. Battlefield BC2, BF3, all the cods, league of legends, wow, star wars old republic when it comes out. Dead island, left 4 dead, tons of other steam games. I pretty much play anything so it has to be good for all around...
Theses are the four cards that I'm intereted in and the cheapest prices I can find them for. The Nvidia cards come with a free copy of Batman Arkham City while the AMD cards come with a free copy of Deux Ex Human Revolution which I would rather have. Just can't decide if I should get the GTX 560...
There's people here that would have covered shipping plus taken him out for dinner for the hassle of shipping just to get this deal.
Unfortunately it was local only.
So I upgraded my CPU and want to sell off what I'm currently using. It's a retail Q9450 and I was able to achieve a 3.5ghz overclock with 1.4v on air cooling.
With water, it will probably reach around 3.6-7ghz. Obviously, YYMV.
My price is $235 USD or $290 CAD OBO
These chips don't OC that well and cap out at 3.4ghz or less. So if you had gotten like a 5600+ at 2.6ghz, you could have OC'd it to 3.0 - 3.2ghz. But since your chip is already at 3.2ghz, there's very little headroom. Even the early Phenoms don't overclock well. The newer phenoms however have...
If you like to overclock and get a Q9450 that can OC to 3.6ghz like mine, then I would get a quad. Otherwise, get a E8400 because almost all of them can hit minimum of 4ghz. It's a swing of the draw to get anything past 3.2ghz on a quad. Some can hit 4ghz, some can't go beyond 3ghz. But with an...
I have mine stable with everything set to auto except the vcore which is at 1.3. My current overclock is 425x8. I'm going to try 450x8 by raising the voltage of the NB and SB and see if I can get it stable. But even at 3.4ghz I am more than happy.
In bios my temps seem to be much lower than what Real temp shows. Even after raising the cpu from 3.4ghz to 3.6ghz there's difference in temps at all.
In fact, my temps at 2.66ghz are the same as 3.4ghz. They don't seem to change at all, I think the sensor is wacked up.
I'm not keen on low...