How are you upgrading?

[LunaTiK TunaLiK]

Re: How are you upgrading?

The original CPU posted the q9550 is still a nice CPU. Mine is overclocked on air to 3.85ghz and has been since the day they were released.(My Temps run in the upper 90Cs under load and I only run one case fan) I believe the newer versions are a bit better. I do agree with some of the comments on it though. If you don't plan to OC it I wouldn't purchase it.

I never advise anyone to build a system or make upgrades before a game like BF3 comes out. If you've got the money to blow go for it. It's not a problem for some people to make a mistake. People probably wont go wrong buying the more powerful video cards that have been released recently.

[Minmaster]

Re: How are you upgrading?

wtf 90 is pretty hot man... i don't think it's supposed to go up that high?
my OC'd q6600 goes up to 70-71 and that gets me pretty paranoid.

[muffinmn100]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Dude, 90c. Stuff starts to fry around 95-100

[Eagle101]

Re: How are you upgrading?

i was thinking about this, but also am happy with my current setup that i was only thinking of getting a gfx card. my cpu is an i5 750 and i am going to purchase a gtx560 as so many are quite reasonably priced and stick with my 4GB ram. i believe that is ok...

[jimykx]

Re: How are you upgrading?

lol, my GPU right now is idle and it's 88 C, while my GPU is at 90C

[Numptie]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Going to be upgrading with a overclockers bundle. i7 overtclocked to 4ghz. The onkly other thing will be a new power supply. My Gfx card should be sufficient as its an 5770

[LunaTiK TunaLiK]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Dude, 90c. Stuff starts to fry around 95-100

absolutely misinformed like 90% of gamers who spend 100s of dollars on retarded cases that do nothing but help the collection of dust.

This CPU has performed extremely well reaching temps of 98C under load for well over 2 years now.

absolutely no reason to be paranoid of a q6600 in the 70s

Modern CPU thermal sensors would need to read over 120C before internal components reached temps of melting points which are probably 600C or higher.

This doesn't mean that transistors can effectively operate at high temps even below melting points. Many CPUs especially older ones would have too much resistance even well below 90C to keep operating normally.

If you are getting temps as high as I do and you aren't overclocking like I am then it's a sign that something is failing or faulty. I don't advise anyone to run their CPUs at 90C... but spending $100 or more for cooling because your CPU is running in the 70s under load is like putting an AC unit in a house located in Nuuk, Greenland.

My 8800s idled at around 78C and usually sat in the upper 80s lower 90s under extreme load. Perfectly normal and expected for the cards I had.

The Panasonic toughbook's my crew had at work ran all summer long sitting in a trucks with no AC in texas heat and the windows rolled up with cpu temps going above 100C for many years.

[Minmaster]

Re: How are you upgrading?

sounds like you'll have a very toasty room during the summer

[LunaTiK TunaLiK]

Re: How are you upgrading?

sounds like you'll have a very toasty room during the summer

That heat dissipates pretty quickly. The monitor on the other hand gives off much more heat.
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I personally believe that with the current cards on the market you'll need at least two to get decent FPS.

I'm willing to bet that the "recommended" specs will still be crawling in the fps area with stuff like AA on.

[Lordsethonan]

Re: How are you upgrading?

I think my rig is fine for now.

AMD Phenom II 965 stock
6950 XFX stock
4 GB DDR3.

Yup think I am good.

What's your framerate on BC2 with that setup and at what settings? I am gonna be missing like 300 bucks for my 2500k and I was thinking of "settling" with either an x4 or x6 6 GB of ram and a radeon 6870; since apparently I can't get a GTX 560 or 570 :P

[Vreki]

Re: How are you upgrading?

What's your framerate on BC2 with that setup and at what settings? I am gonna be missing like 300 bucks for my 2500k and I was thinking of "settling" with either an x4 or x6 6 GB of ram and a radeon 6870; since apparently I can't get a GTX 560 or 570 :P

I got a 955 and a 6970, and that gives me somthing like this:

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
10827, 156643, 46, 163, 69.119

With these settings

[Lordsethonan]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Mmmm, so maybe I'd get steady 60 fps at the same res all on high but hald the ani and antialiasing.

Not bad.

[monkton]

Re: How are you upgrading?

After many years with the notebook in my sig, I just ordered a new Sager 8170 / Clevo P170HM with the following specs. I'm very excited:

- Display: 17.3" FHD 16:9 "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Glossy Screen w/ 90% NTSC Color Gamut (1920x1080)
- Dead Pixel Warranty: 30 Day No Dead Pixel Guarantee - Special
- Processor: -2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2820QM, 2.3-3.4GHz, (32nm, 8MB L3 cache)
- Thermal Compound: - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
- Graphics Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 485M 2,048MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 (User Upgradeable)
- Ram: ~ 16,384MB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (4 SODIMMS)
- Optical Drive: ~ 6X Blue-Ray Burner/Reader / 8X DVDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
- Primary Hard Drive: ~ 160GB Intel 320 Series Solid State Drive (SSD Serial-ATA II)
- Second Hard Drive: ~ 500GB (w/ 4GB SSD Memory) Seagate XT 7200RPM NCQ Hybrid (Serial-ATA II 300 - 32MB Cache)
- Wireless Network: Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module
- Sound Card: Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included

Dammit! I just learned that Nvidia released the GTX 580M...

[Stev0esque]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Well This is what I got in the end:

Intel i7 930 2.8 Ghz (may overclock soon though)
8gb Ram
AMD Radeon 6870 1gb DDR5

[imported_Grudge]

Re: How are you upgrading?

Got a new build on the way from newegg.

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz
EVGA 01G-P3-1563-A1 GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 ghz
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB Ram
1TB hard drive
Biostar motherboard
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced case
And yes, have to upgrade to windows 7.

Moving to intel after several years of amd.

Haven't built a new one in 4 years, so it's time for a new computer.