going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i expect?

[Minmaster]

i'm considering bumping up my Q6600 to 3.0ghz. what kind of performance gain could i expect? would it be even worth it? rest of my HW is 8800GT and 3GB memory and i'm running win7 64.

[Vreki]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

Simple math says max 25%
I have newer overclocked beyond 10%, and that didnt seem worth it to me.

[The_Mad_MoShah]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

With my q6600 when I overclocked to 3.2 I got an extra 10 fps.

[Minmaster]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

cool, 25% or 10 frames is a lot actually, i'd be happy with that kind of gain. gonna try it soon and i'll report back.

[Vreki]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

cool, 25% or 10 frames is a lot actually, i'd be happy with that kind of gain. gonna try it soon and i'll report back.

That assumes that your CPU is the bottleneck, you wont gain much from overclocking the CPU if you GFX card is holding you back. But lets us know what happens.

[Lordsethonan]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

Would anybody recommend getting a GTS250 1GB ddr3 ram or a 5750 card for an E8400 at stock clocks? I know getting anything better would make my processor bottleneck the card anyways, and my mobo won't allow me to overclock at all, some issue with the model, it's a gigabyte mobo; so all I can do is run at stock clocks or risk burning the CPU.

[Vreki]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

Isnt Nvidia supposed to launch their 480 series soon?
That could also influence the pricing of the card segment you are looking at.

One of my friends got a passive cooled hd5750 for his Phenomen II X4 965, and he seems happy enough.

[McSteviee]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

Would anybody recommend getting a GTS250 1GB ddr3 ram or a 5750 card for an E8400 at stock clocks? I know getting anything better would make my processor bottleneck the card anyways, and my mobo won't allow me to overclock at all, some issue with the model, it's a gigabyte mobo; so all I can do is run at stock clocks or risk burning the CPU.

I've got a 9800gtx (same card as a gts250) with an E8400 and it seems quite balanced. I have overclocked the cpu just for this game however (3.7GHz). Getting 40-60 FPS on medium settings at 1680x1050.

[WickedSlammy]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

so i guess my e8400 OCed to 3.6 is bottlenecking my gtx260 core 216 sli setup? Ive thought about upgrading my cpu setup to maybe an i5 setup since i7 is stupid expensive.

[UniSoL]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

I got a huge performance jump by bumping my E8400 from 3.0Ghz to 3.75Ghz. It should be a good jump for you.

[Minmaster]

Re: going from 2.4ghz Q6600 to 3.0ghz: what kind of increase in performance can i exp

ok i bumped it up to 3.0ghz the other day and now i'm playing in DX10 mode whereas before i had to play DX9 due to performance issues. in DX10 at least, i'm guessing there was about 10fps gain, which was just enough for me to enjoy it.