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**occurrini** · 10-21-2010, 10:41 PM

Eh? Most games today are GPU limited and have been for a few years (since core2 I would say lol). I recently bought a cheap Q9550 because I had the upgrade itch and I didn't want my dual to be the limit when I upgrade the GPU but so far, there's not much of difference except when I play games, surf or study the CPU usage is 5-10% instead of 15-30%.

I would notice a big improvement with a CPU upgrade, even tried my friends Q6600 in my PC for a bit clocked at 3.4 it gave me quite a big FPS boost in all games, especially games like SH.

Again, if money is such an issue, why stay Intel, that cpu for ~400USD (are my exchange rates that far off?) when you could get so much more with that money (like a much faster AMD CPU/MB combo

Because when I got this current rig a few years ago Intel was by far the better deal money/performance wise.

As said though maybe am moaning to much but the 25% increase before has hurt people like me more.

Saying all this though AMD/Nv have just started dropping prices again on mid range cards! Prices looking good there now, just hope they drop prices on their lower end/mid range cards, like the 5770, etc, as would like to see these drop below £100.

So my wishes after making this thread have started to come true in terms of prices coming down, as I guess this thread helped if your superstitious at least. Don't help with getting a quad though.

10-21-2010, 10:41 PM	#24
occurrini Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	Eh? Most games today are GPU limited and have been for a few years (since core2 I would say lol). I recently bought a cheap Q9550 because I had the upgrade itch and I didn't want my dual to be the limit when I upgrade the GPU but so far, there's not much of difference except when I play games, surf or study the CPU usage is 5-10% instead of 15-30%. I would notice a big improvement with a CPU upgrade, even tried my friends Q6600 in my PC for a bit clocked at 3.4 it gave me quite a big FPS boost in all games, especially games like SH. Again, if money is such an issue, why stay Intel, that cpu for ~400USD (are my exchange rates that far off?) when you could get so much more with that money (like a much faster AMD CPU/MB combo Because when I got this current rig a few years ago Intel was by far the better deal money/performance wise. As said though maybe am moaning to much but the 25% increase before has hurt people like me more. Saying all this though AMD/Nv have just started dropping prices again on mid range cards! Prices looking good there now, just hope they drop prices on their lower end/mid range cards, like the 5770, etc, as would like to see these drop below £100. So my wishes after making this thread have started to come true in terms of prices coming down, as I guess this thread helped if your superstitious at least. Don't help with getting a quad though.
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