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Duff-Man said:
If you really want a major improvement, then I suggest you wait it out until Haswell releases, along with its new architecture. Ivy Bridge is only a die shrink of Sandy-Bridge, meaning that the manufacturing process has been brought down from 32nm to 22nm, processing power will increas by about 10-15%, but the only real big improvement will be intergrated graphics on the CPU. Your Q6600 will be suffice for Diablo 3 and upcoming games, spend how much of your R4500 you're willing to spend to get yourself a decent graphics card to hold you out until Haswell releases and then do a full system upgrade.
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I have a 560ti already, actually. I find that the Q6600 is often a bottleneck when looking at what sort of performance the 560ti ought to put out. Generally it's smooth, but in larger maps in BF3, FPS goes out the window at 1080p, for example. I already have a good Corsair 650W PSU - should've rather spent the extra and gotten a 750W so that I could SLI, I know, but it made sense at the time, I have a good case, a good screen, excellent keyboard, SSD, etc. Pretty much everything worth upgrading I've upgraded, leaving only the CPU as the weakest component currently, and it shows, even though it's overclocked as far as it will go. From the info I have, Haswell is around a year away as well.
What I may end up doing, is building an entirely new system, if I were to go that route, as by then the 560ti won't be as nice anymore either.
 
Messugga said:
I have a 560ti already, actually. I find that the Q6600 is often a bottleneck when looking at what sort of performance the 560ti ought to put out. Generally it's smooth, but in larger maps in BF3, FPS goes out the window at 1080p, for example. I already have a good Corsair 650W PSU - should've rather spent the extra and gotten a 750W so that I could SLI, I know, but it made sense at the time, I have a good case, a good screen, excellent keyboard, SSD, etc. Pretty much everything worth upgrading I've upgraded, leaving only the CPU as the weakest component currently, and it shows, even though it's overclocked as far as it will go. From the info I have, Haswell is around a year away as well.
What I may end up doing, is building an entirely new system, if I were to go that route, as by then the 560ti won't be as nice anymore either.
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Trust you've OCed to 3.6GHz mimimum? Q6600 was my last CPU. I noticed it becoming sluggish. Upgraded to Q9550 for like R900 and purring along now. Max everything including BF3. smooth as a babys bottom so I suggest you do this. I recon you could SLI with 560Ti and high quality 650watt.
 
PostmanPot said:
Trust you've OCed to 3.6GHz mimimum? Q6600 was my last CPU. I noticed it becoming sluggish. Upgraded to Q9550 for like R900 and purring along now. Max everything including BF3. smooth as a babys bottom so I suggest you do this. I recon you could SLI with 560Ti and high quality 650watt.
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Nah, I have bad luck with that CPU. I can't get it over 3.0Ghz stable, no matter what I do with the core voltages, etc. If I could get my hands on a Q9550, that would probably sort me out as well.

650W could do 560ti's in SLI, but it'd be pretty damn borderline - I'd prefer not straining the PSU so much. Besides, 750W units aren't that expensive, and I could probably flog the 650W for a few hundred as well, seeing as it's still under warranty. SLI isn't an option with my current motherboard though, so not really a big deal. So I guess what I'll do is see whether I can get my hands on a Q9550 and run that for a while longer, and just buy a complete new system when Haswell launches.
 
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Nah, I have bad luck with that CPU. I can't get it over 3.0Ghz stable, no matter what I do with the core voltages, etc. If I could get my hands on a Q9550, that would probably sort me out as well.

650W could do 560ti's in SLI, but it'd be pretty damn borderline - I'd prefer not straining the PSU so much. Besides, 750W units aren't that expensive, and I could probably flog the 650W for a few hundred as well, seeing as it's still under warranty. SLI isn't an option with my current motherboard though, so not really a big deal. So I guess what I'll do is see whether I can get my hands on a Q9550 and run that for a while longer, and just buy a complete new system when Haswell launches.
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Check out Carbonite, should be quite a few people upgrading to Ivy Bridge, and then grab yourself a Q9550 at a bargain price.
 
adamr said:
This should be made a sticky
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Hopefully it will be :)


PostmanPot said:
Trust you've OCed to 3.6GHz mimimum? Q6600 was my last CPU. I noticed it becoming sluggish. Upgraded to Q9550 for like R900 and purring along now. Max everything including BF3. smooth as a babys bottom so I suggest you do this. I recon you could SLI with 560Ti and high quality 650watt.
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Corsair TX-650 should run a 560Ti in SLI just fine.
 
Messugga said:
Nah, I have bad luck with that CPU. I can't get it over 3.0Ghz stable, no matter what I do with the core voltages, etc. If I could get my hands on a Q9550, that would probably sort me out as well.

650W could do 560ti's in SLI, but it'd be pretty damn borderline - I'd prefer not straining the PSU so much. Besides, 750W units aren't that expensive, and I could probably flog the 650W for a few hundred as well, seeing as it's still under warranty. SLI isn't an option with my current motherboard though, so not really a big deal. So I guess what I'll do is see whether I can get my hands on a Q9550 and run that for a while longer, and just buy a complete new system when Haswell launches.
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Doubt you'll be straining it. :p

Cool, in your position I would then sell your Q6600, add R200 and get a Q9550. Then by sticking with single gfx cards I would keep your 650watt for ages longer. :)

What's your mobo for interes's sake?
 
PostmanPot said:
Trust you've OCed to 3.6GHz mimimum? Q6600 was my last CPU. I noticed it becoming sluggish. Upgraded to Q9550 for like R900 and purring along now. Max everything including BF3. smooth as a babys bottom so I suggest you do this. I recon you could SLI with 560Ti and high quality 650watt.
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Duff-Man said:
Testing his rig on Battlefield 3 at Ultra, GTX 550 Ti coping very, very well.......strangely
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My cousin's rig equipped with a GTX 550Ti managed Battlefield 3 running at Ultra, with an average of 24,4 FPS, here are some pics.

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My cousin's rig equipped with a GTX 550Ti managed Battlefield 3 running at Ultra, with an average of 24,4 FPS, here are some pics.]
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Can't see pics, you've linked them incorrectly. Link needs to end in .jpg or .png.

What screen/resolution? Sounds like he's running a non FHD screen.
 
PostmanPot said:
Doubt you'll be straining it. :p

Cool, in your position I would then sell your Q6600, add R200 and get a Q9550. Then by sticking with single gfx cards I would keep your 650watt for ages longer. :)

What's your mobo for interes's sake?
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It's some relatively generic Gigabyte thing. Not terribly great, but not bottom-end either. Purchased it ages ago and it was what was available, within budget. I'm not a student anymore, however, so can afford something a tad better these days ;)
 
PC at R35k...

I just have laugh! Lets rather buy a car or so.
 
PostmanPot said:
Trust you've OCed to 3.6GHz mimimum? Q6600 was my last CPU. I noticed it becoming sluggish. Upgraded to Q9550 for like R900 and purring along now. Max everything including BF3. smooth as a babys bottom so I suggest you do this. I recon you could SLI with 560Ti and high quality 650watt.
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Messugga said:
Are you sure? Because by my calculations, it'd push the PSU to just about 650W if everything went on full load (Unlikely, I know, but still)...
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It should, only problem would be a Corsair TX650 v2 only has 2 PCI-E, so unfortunately (each 560Ti requires 2 of them), you're forced to used Molex > 6-pin adapters.

According to it's specs You have 8 Molexes, so you shouldn't run out of connectors, but cable management would get pretty ugly.

Run Prime95 and see how much your computer takes at full draw, and if it shuts down or not.
 
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It should, only problem would be a Corsair TX650 v2 only has 2 PCI-E, so unfortunately (each 560Ti requires 2 of them), you're forced to used Molex > 6-pin adapters.

According to it's specs You have 8 Molexes, so you shouldn't run out of connectors, but cable management would get pretty ugly.

Run Prime95 and see how much your computer takes at full draw, and if it shuts down or not.
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Don't have the proper equipment to check how much it's pulling under load, unfortunately. I bought the TX650 a while ago, so I suspect it's the previous generation. Cable management gets handled nicely by my chassis, so that's not a big deal. I'll look into the matter.
 
Messugga said:
Don't have the proper equipment to check how much it's pulling under load, unfortunately. I bought the TX650 a while ago, so I suspect it's the previous generation. Cable management gets handled nicely by my chassis, so that's not a big deal. I'll look into the matter.
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The only difference between the v2 and the original TX650 is that the original TX are made by Channel Well Tecnology while the TX V2 is made by SeaSonic.
 
Well, I'm currently considering a Gigabyte p67aud4 revb3 with another of my 560ti's for R2k total. That, with a 2500k and some RAM would fly, I reckon, provided my PSU doesn't blow up :p Thoughts?
 
Messugga said:
Well, I'm currently considering a Gigabyte p67aud4 revb3 with another of my 560ti's for R2k total. That, with a 2500k and some RAM would fly, I reckon, provided my PSU doesn't blow up :p Thoughts?
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If you're going to get a Gigabyte mobo why not get a P67A-UD7 if it fits in your price range. Also why not wait for Ivy Bridge i5-3550 should see a 10-15% CPU performance boost. For RAm get either G.Skill or Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz RAM, other than that, great choices, and no your PSU won't blow up ;)
 
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