Do you max out all 4 cores in your current CPU on a daily basis? I'm running a Q660 in my desktop and the answer for me is no, which is why I'm in no hurry to upgrade my CPU.
I think either adding more RAM (if you do a lot of multitasking, ram-intensive tasks, or run VMs), adding a SDD boot drive, or a new GPU (if you game) would be money better spent. --- Brian On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > I am currently running a Quad Core 9650 at 3.45Ghz on a Asus Maximus > Formula II with 8GB of DDR2 800 that I built in August of 08. > > The rest of my components are good and don't require an upgrade > 85o watt Seasonic > two Sapphire 5770s > Intel SSD for boot and a 300GB Raptor plus a collection of data storage > drives. > > All running Win7Pro SP1 > > It does what I need and it does it well, but with all the excitement about > Sandy bridge it got me thinking about upgrading my motherboard, RAM and CPU > this summer, once all the problems shake out. Right now I am thinking about > a 2600K Sandy Bridge, with a ASUS Rampage III Formula and 16GB of RAM.... > what speed of RAM am I looking for? > > I use my PC for real work, day in and day out, and if I could just upgrade > the components without redoing everything I would be more inclined to > upgrade sooner rather then later. I am not interested in just getting > benchmarks. My question is will it matter... will I really be able to > notice. I do video editing, and encoding and I am sure I will be able to > notice there, but generally I encode over night so an hour here or there > isn't a big deal to me. > > Am I looking at a noticeably gee whiz faster everything, or am I barely > going to notice in my day to day real world use? > thanks > w > >
