Worth upgrading from intel E6550?

montana

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I do lots of photo editing, Lightroom and video editing. My MB supports any quad or duo CPU, but not i7. Thanks for any info.
 
What do you plan on upgrading to?
It's probably not worthwhile to upgrade to another 775 processor.
 
Depends if your software takes advantage of all 4 cores.

It would benefit you slightly.
 
I was looking at upgrading to one of the Wolfdales, maybe one of the higher end quad cores. My main focus is Lightroom 2 and Adobe Premiere.
 
Thx. How much of a difference would I see with this CPU and my curent e6550? Thanks a lot. That 9400 looks nice.
 
You'd see a good bit of performance with a quad over a dual. Especially for photo/video editing.

Go for a quad, you won't be disappointed.
 
Hydro - Thx. I think I may just do that.

Gautama - I have a Kingston 40GB SSD with Intel contorller coming tomorrow for a fresh Windows 7 install. I plan to use it as my O.S. drive and keep all date on other drives.
 
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i don't think a ssd worth the money right now but a good Q9xx series cpu and a velociraptor will do the job just fine
 
Thx for the input. Just orderd a Q9400 for $179. I will be using this sytem for the next couple years and then upgrading to whatever is beyond i7.
 
For video editing a quad is much more useful than a SSD. Unless you want to get 3 of them....

Montana, another thing that'll help a lot with video editing is to have multiple harddrives. One for the input file, another for the output file, and a third for the scratch disk.
 
For video editing a quad is much more useful than a SSD. Unless you want to get 3 of them....

Montana, another thing that'll help a lot with video editing is to have multiple harddrives. One for the input file, another for the output file, and a third for the scratch disk.

+1.
 
For video editing a quad is much more useful than a SSD. Unless you want to get 3 of them....

Montana, another thing that'll help a lot with video editing is to have multiple harddrives. One for the input file, another for the output file, and a third for the scratch disk.


Thx! That's how I currently have my rig set up - three drives, one for each task. The new SSD drive will of course only feature the program itself since it is only 40gb.

The main reason I upgraded to the SSD for my O.S. drive is I'm sick of the noises regular HDD's make, and that's the drive that is usually chugging.
 
Thx for the feedback, dudes. There's a gigantic difference between my old E6550 and the new Q9400 in Lightroom 2.0 - which is exactly why I wanted the upgrade.
 
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