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Convince me to buy a Q9550 Someone I know is selling a Q9550 for what appears to be a good price. I currently run a Q6600; that's a 2.4g chip, 3.5G daily 450x8 1:1. Q9550 has a larger cache, higher clock speed at 2.83g, and a higher bus speed at 1333; but in the real world what do these things mean to me-is it a worthwhile upgrade or will I be disappointed when comparing it to my Q6600, which is a vicious overclocker? Convince me. Price is $240.
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I would be afraid that you would hit your FSB limit before you hit the clock limit of the CPU, because it's already running at 1333. |
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EDIT: OK I see. It has a 8.5 multi, 1/2 multi higher than Q9450. With DDR3 and 470FSB I could do 4G with that thing. I think it would be possible on the Maximus Extreme. Maybe. I reckon it would be a better folder than the Q6600, too. I may be answering my own question here but if you have an opinion, chime in.
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I moved from a Q6600 into my Q9450 and still have a Q6600 rig running. Clock for Clock the Q9450 outperforms the Q6600 by 5%. While they are better overclockers for the most part, it's hard to get it out of them with the boards available I've been through a few motherboards in my quest for high quad FSB, best I have managed is 465 stable, 475 bench. Most boards started to have problems around 450. I don't think you would see much improvement from your current set up with the Q9550. I would try to steer you in the direction of Nehalem and X58, even if it meant holding off for a little while.
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@cc: I can't say I disagree, although the 8,5 multi is a small advantage over your chip - if only at the 450FSB I run now, it would yield 3.825 vs the 3.5 I now run. Thats a 9% improvement; I've had this board in the 460's as well, and although it wasn't fully stable I didn't really expend much effort to make it so. If I could get it stable at just 460 that's 3.9. Maybe I'll see if he'll budge on the price a bit-then it may be worth it just for the sport. If I can get it cheaply enough, I might do it just as a folding box. I'm in no hurry to upgrade anything and wasn't looking until he mentioned it to me, so no big deal either way. Cheers for the input.
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AFAIK only the Q6600 is 1066 bus. Others are 1333.
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Are you guys doing anything about northbridge cooling on these unstable boards? I remember back in the day when we would hit a wall with FSB overclocks, we would pull the northbridge cooler and and reinstall it with some good AS. Sure enough... we would be able to hit even higher overclocks. $.02 HTH
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NB on this board is natively watercooled. No problem there.
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