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Always contemplating upgrades.
Built a friend of mine an i5-3570K system, mildly OCed to 4.0Ghz on all 4 cores. I think it was hitting maybe 56-60C in OCCT 64-bit linpack. 16GB of RAM. No GPU though, he's not into games.
I would have liked to have kept the system, but I owed him some money. I think it came out to like $850-900 total, including Win7 Pro. If it were mine, I would have dropped in two R9 270 cards, and cranked up the distributed computing.
I didn't run any benchmarks really, which is a shame. I'm a bit curious how a 4.0Ghz i5-3570K compares to a Q9300 @ 3.0.
Then again, I don't have $900 x 2 to upgrade both of my rigs.
Just curious how much slower my rigs are these days.
Would they be decent still to play any modern games, or are they really bad? They currently have HD4850 512MB cards, which I know would need to be replaced before playing any new games. I was looking at the MSI TF R9 270 2GB cards for $180 ea. I would need two, one for each rig. My boards are P35 chipset, which means that they don't overclock much over 400FSB, which means that 3.0Ghz is the practical limit for those Q9300 CPUs on these boards.
Built a friend of mine an i5-3570K system, mildly OCed to 4.0Ghz on all 4 cores. I think it was hitting maybe 56-60C in OCCT 64-bit linpack. 16GB of RAM. No GPU though, he's not into games.
I would have liked to have kept the system, but I owed him some money. I think it came out to like $850-900 total, including Win7 Pro. If it were mine, I would have dropped in two R9 270 cards, and cranked up the distributed computing.
I didn't run any benchmarks really, which is a shame. I'm a bit curious how a 4.0Ghz i5-3570K compares to a Q9300 @ 3.0.
Then again, I don't have $900 x 2 to upgrade both of my rigs.
Just curious how much slower my rigs are these days.
Would they be decent still to play any modern games, or are they really bad? They currently have HD4850 512MB cards, which I know would need to be replaced before playing any new games. I was looking at the MSI TF R9 270 2GB cards for $180 ea. I would need two, one for each rig. My boards are P35 chipset, which means that they don't overclock much over 400FSB, which means that 3.0Ghz is the practical limit for those Q9300 CPUs on these boards.