Core2Duo to Core2Quad?

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R mobo

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16ghz. (stock timing)

6gigs Mushkin DDR2

EVGA Nvidia GTX 570 Superclocked

Creative X-Fi Fata1ty Gamer sound card.

Win-7 Pro 64 bit.

Well you GPU is completely bottlenecked by your cpu, get a new mobo and a quad asap, otherwise you lose out on most of the benefits of win7 and the gpu.

[ElAurens]

I wish I could Heliocon.

Right now the cash needs to go to the real world.

I'll make do with this for a while and see what happens.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I wish I could Heliocon.

Right now the cash needs to go to the real world.

I'll make do with this for a while and see what happens.

I understand, I waited like 6+ years before getting a new system, it really is an investment. If it was me I would leave the cpu, unless you can get a second hand one really cheap its not worth buying in the long run (because in a year or two when you are able to upgrade that $ will be much better sent by going for a more "holistic" approach.)

Another thing you could try is overclocking the hell out of your CPU is possible to boost performance.

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Hey El - I think I have pretty much the same system as you, except I have a Q9650 in mine.

I'm not sure what you have for Graphics.

My Win7/64 system:
QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650, 4000 MHz (9 x 444)
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
4 Gigs Corsair Dominator CM2X2048-8500C5D
ATI HD 5870 Cat 11.3

If you we are close enough in system - you might give me a tight set of benchmark settings and we can exchange Fraps results?

Give you an idea, depending on what you have for video. I also bought a Q9550 for another systems and was able to clock it just as high as my 9650. Q9550 is cheaper but has same specs, but lower listed clock.

S!

Gunny

[Buchon]

At stock speeds maybe was a bit bottleneck, but not much.

A dual core E8500, or E8600, can reach the same performance of a 775 socket quad if you can overclock it over 4.400 Ghz, however you need water cooling to archive that without burn your CPU.

But ClOD dont use a quad core CPU at full, so you can reach the same performance of a 775 socket quad in ClOD just reaching 4 Ghz on air cooling.

I did a little bench and here is the result, I tried reach the max eyecandy at playable frame rates, actually is in the speed of my VRAM where the bottleneck are in my system, specs in my sig.

Settings :



Maximun torture London, at that eyecandy at low altitude I have a minimum of 18 FPS, is not bad to fly arround and watch but dont try have combats there, and no CPU bottleneck :



Free Fly England, flying over the country at low altitude I get a minimum of 34 FPS, not bad at all, at that eyecandy is amazing fly over there, very pretty landscapes, very playable at all, and no CPU bottleneck :



Bomber Intercept Channel, over water there no problems at all, with 9 bombers and 6 comrades, at that eyecandy, I have a minimum of 56 FPS, and no CPU bottleneck :



So I guess that dropping 300 bucks for a Quad 775 maybe is not a good idea, you can save that money for a better upgrade.

Hope was informative

Edit :

That bench with Quad and ATI 5870 would be amazing Gunslinger