The first Core 2 Quad came out in late 2006 as the QX6700 with mainstream models, aka the Q6600 that became so popular around April 2007. Given this your system is likely at most only 4 years old.
With that said yes, any modern graphics card (high-end) will be bottlenecked by such CPU.
I...
A niche product either way but it's odd how the world is turning more eco friendly (especially visible in cars - engine sizes, downsizing with turbos, hybrid etc.) while graphics cards seem to be getting larger and more power hungry.
It would be a lot more fun if they simply designed a PCB...
I found this to be true on Asus motherboards except taking the RAM out and back in wasn't the only thing required, I had to insert some other RAM of a different brand for it to boot-up before being able to go back to my original RAM. This happened when attempting various overclocking settings...
If you do something that's very sensitive to CPU/GPU speed such as media encoding then every little helps as it means more transcodes and/or less time to do them meaning more private time for you, your family and so forth.
Getting a system spot on stable 100% when overclocking can take time...
In which case an overclocked Q9650 seems the way to go in his situation. 3.6GHz will be easy and while it will still bottleneck a 560Ti the impact will me considerably less than at 3GHz.
Ahhh....I shall slow down and read more carefully next time :)
Still, more and more games are making use of quad cores now so the extra two cores will come in handy.
...but a new 2500K/2600K system would be the best (performance not money wise) way to go.
AMD won't go out of business in as far as if things were really to undermine for them then rest assured someone would buy them out and likely still use the AMD brand.
AMD's problem is first and foremost limited cash flow.
Well there's always an itch to upgrade, especially amongst the younger age groups but I dare ask, why don't you overclock your Q9650? They're all E0's and many will do 4GHz+. You just need a good motherboard, PSU and cooler. Even if you leave the RAM at default you can run 3.6GHz with a 9x...
Take your time, double check things, no need to race.
The screwdriver couldn't really damage anything (perhaps scratch if that) on the motherboard unless it fell say on the CPU socket pins area.
As long as you don't turn the power on then inserting the USB/1394 molex block into the wrong...
:) Those were the days hey, you should frame it and hang it on your wall.
At least back then computers were usually very quiet, with only one fan installed in the PSU and at times a small one on the CPU heat-sink (which wasn't audible anyway). Putting in SDRAM in a P54C/P55 Pentium made a...
You most definitely have a lose contact. Are the push pins fully through and can't be pressed down any further? Do note they can require quite a bit of force to get them fully in.
Also, various Q9650's will have different VID's. The lower the VID the hotter the chip. VID stands for Voltage...
No point in upgrading your CPU just yet but it may be logically justified to sell it, along with your X58 motherboard. The X58 platform is a dead-end and the longer you wait the harder it will be to sell it on eBay for good money.
Basically, if you plan to keep the X58 system as a 2nd PC...
Your PSU is the likely cause, more specifically it doesn't have enough amps on the +12V line(s). This results in flaky stability. I would recommend you check your PSU specs and act accordingly.
The memory frequency does seem a little on the low side especially. I think Nvidia is battling on two fronts:
a) Power consumption and heat, they ideally need 22nm for a card like this.
b) Speed. They don't want it to be as fast as 2 GTX580's in SLI because then most people would rather buy a...
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