So after looking around and trying to find some recent posts I have decided to ask this question on an upgrade.
As my sig states I have a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz however I was just looking around and was wondering if solely upgrading my cpu to a Q9550 @ 3.4GHz would be worth it? No photoshop or encoding but gaming and VMs is the usual workload.
I saw in another post that they have the Q9550 at Microcenters for $150 or so and according an old post at anandtech, my 8800GTs are still quite capable of keeping up with a single GTX280.
SSD would be nice but don't have the money to drop on a version larger than 64gb so just looking at processors right now.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
As my sig states I have a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz however I was just looking around and was wondering if solely upgrading my cpu to a Q9550 @ 3.4GHz would be worth it? No photoshop or encoding but gaming and VMs is the usual workload.
I saw in another post that they have the Q9550 at Microcenters for $150 or so and according an old post at anandtech, my 8800GTs are still quite capable of keeping up with a single GTX280.
SSD would be nice but don't have the money to drop on a version larger than 64gb so just looking at processors right now.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.