Intel i7 2600k vs. 4.5Ghz Q9550

[Musharat]

I have my Q9550 to 4.5 GHz recorded in volts rather low (1.39375 bios). I looked around reference points while the clock to the clock on my Q9550 is no competition for what i7 2600K to 2600K 4.5 GHz speed, 3.8-3.9 GHz? Is there truly any point in improve to an i7 if the only thing that matters now is FPS in games and I doubt I'll see much difference in the improvement? I have still some room to push this chip in the air and am due to hit 4.6 + easily in water. Please if anyone has any idea than provide me.

[Apple.Mac.Rocker]

The 2600K is much faster than the Core 2 series, but has no effect on the CPU upgrade until you get a new GPU. Even then it probably will be fine with your Q9550 overclocked splendidly and a single GPU for games. The bottleneck of the CPU may be a bit if there was a new GPU estate, but you at a standstill find most of the benefits of the new GPU. I do not upgrade the processor but unless the games are CPU significantly and they are there, but some of them. Explosion of money for the FPS is moving up its 285.

[Sn0w-Le0p@rD]

Can you sprint a SuperPI (SuperPI Mod 1.5 XS) 1M and 32M check in your Q9550 4.5 GHz? After that we can obtain a decent estimate. I presume I should be in about 10.6 seconds for 1M.
Just tried it quickly,
1M = 9.86 3.8 GHz
4.5 GHz = 8.36 1M
No proof 3.6 GHz, but probably would be about 10.4sec. What I have seen others Q9550 to 4.5 GHz so that approximately 30% increase in the things of the CPU limited. More or less what I saw in some old games (the first level of the Vietcong, and ground mod Morrowind MGE + distance).

[Alexisus]

The just game that will see a considerable advantage is that the massive CPU hog called GTA4, if you are running a 6850 card + or + Series 470-500. But yes, if you do not burn my 4 pins on my old board, I would still be shooting a 4 GHz QX9550. It's definitely nice as a 3 year CPU continues to operate completely new things very well. In comparison, when my Pentium 4 chip was 3 years (in 2007) was a pain to run nothing new there. This should show how time has been flexing its muscles Quads. Especially when overclocking. A Q9550 paired with a P45 motherboard and goes to 4.5 GHz was surely one of the greatest "longevity" acquires in current history. Even 600e to 1 or 1.6 to 3.0 GHz P4 does not hold pressure at all times.

[Nutty]

Do not do this if you are satisfied with their performance of the game. When I got my GTX 480, which had a Q6600 at 3.8GHz running. It was very dissatisfied with my framerate in games like TF2, SC2, and Bad Company 2. I would fall in the 40 and 50 in enormous fights. So I have a i7 930 and a 4.3GHz clock speed. Now I not at all under 80 to 90fps in those games, even in the biggest battles in full servers. I saw approximately a 2x improvement in the lower frame rate in games what game was over worth it for me. Its 4.5GHz Core 2 Quad is decent for what it is faster than my Core 2 Quad was 3.8

[Balamani]

I use the 2600k with overclocking instructions. Do not use "turbo" setting only multipliers directly. So I wrote the results of 100x38 (3.8 g) and 4.5 g (100x45). Ok, so the result 4.5 GHz is roughly equal to my score at 3.6 GHz. So this is the drive the clock by 25% in the clock, MHz dissimilarity extrapolation. Very nice CPU. Surely, I sat in it and see how the Ivy Bridge run, and after that you can settle on whether to go for an upgrade Ivy Bridge in 1155/2011, and even to wait to 2012 chips. Video processor card with a number of high class and you can go.