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- Thread starter Robertus
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It really depends upon these things:
a) what do you use your computer for?
b) are you satisfied with it's current performance?
c) what operating system do you use?
The first question is key to determining whether the quad is worth it. If you do any video or audio editing, image manipulation, CAD design work, software development, or any other task that is heavy on CPU usage, you'll see an improvement with the quad. If you game, and you're mostly into FPSs, then the E6300 is good going forward. Very few games make use of four cores today, and those that do are mainly RTS games such as Supreme Commander.
The last question is key to determining whether you'll be able to utilize four gigs of RAM. Only 64-bit Operating systems can fully see and utlize four and more gigs. With a 32-bit OS, you'll be stuck with 4 gigs MINUS the SUM of all component memory (i.e. memory on your video card.) With a GTX, you're looking at a maximum of around 3 gigs. Also keep in mind that you won't necessarily see a performance improvement by adding more RAM unless your current RAM is bottlenecking your system's performance. If you can determine that your system is running low on available RAM, causing performance issues, than adding more would be wise. However, there are few instances today where 2 gigs will bottleneck performance.
The second question is perhaps the most important. Don't spend money just to spend it. If you are not satisfied with your computer's current performance, you're should investigate which component is causing a bottleneck and address that.
Good luck,
Mark.
a) what do you use your computer for?
b) are you satisfied with it's current performance?
c) what operating system do you use?
The first question is key to determining whether the quad is worth it. If you do any video or audio editing, image manipulation, CAD design work, software development, or any other task that is heavy on CPU usage, you'll see an improvement with the quad. If you game, and you're mostly into FPSs, then the E6300 is good going forward. Very few games make use of four cores today, and those that do are mainly RTS games such as Supreme Commander.
The last question is key to determining whether you'll be able to utilize four gigs of RAM. Only 64-bit Operating systems can fully see and utlize four and more gigs. With a 32-bit OS, you'll be stuck with 4 gigs MINUS the SUM of all component memory (i.e. memory on your video card.) With a GTX, you're looking at a maximum of around 3 gigs. Also keep in mind that you won't necessarily see a performance improvement by adding more RAM unless your current RAM is bottlenecking your system's performance. If you can determine that your system is running low on available RAM, causing performance issues, than adding more would be wise. However, there are few instances today where 2 gigs will bottleneck performance.
The second question is perhaps the most important. Don't spend money just to spend it. If you are not satisfied with your computer's current performance, you're should investigate which component is causing a bottleneck and address that.
Good luck,
Mark.
well it seems to me its a very good system with the cpu at high clocks can feed the gtx fine, and 2 gigs of ram are enough for any regular gaming rig.
i have no idea, buy beer
i'm leaning to a new cpu with higher clocks, you can still oc it but wont stress it as much, 4 gigs of ram would mostly be a waste of space
i have no idea, buy beer
i'm leaning to a new cpu with higher clocks, you can still oc it but wont stress it as much, 4 gigs of ram would mostly be a waste of space
Unless your going 64-bit and have some purpose or some application that will take advantage of the extra ram and 64bit architecture go with Q6600 and 2GB of RAM. I have a Xeon X5355 with 4GB but due to the 32bit limitation im only capable of around 2.8GB of available RAM and although I have the extra ram there I still havent gone over 1.25GB used.
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A comment on adding more memory...
Going from 2x1 to 4x1 made my system unstable and I had to back off my OC. So if you do upgrade the memory, you might want to go with 2x2 so as to have a better chance of sustaining your OC.
Going from 2x1 to 4x1 made my system unstable and I had to back off my OC. So if you do upgrade the memory, you might want to go with 2x2 so as to have a better chance of sustaining your OC.
I did. OC at 3.015 GHz ran the temps to near 60C in Orthos on all 4 cores.
I changed to water, now its about 40C at full load in gaming and high 40s in 4 core Orthos.
Thats just me, YMMV.
markintosh13
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Computer gear really isn't an "investment" unless it enables you to make significant money.
It's usually an expense.
It's usually an expense.