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Quoted from octochris

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There is no reason to spend much more money on a quad than a dual at this point in time, as most games barely use two cores, never mind four.

so why would u tell him to buy a new mobo to run amd or 45nm chip c2d when he could just buy old 65nm quad for the price and run it OC’ed with a 50% performance increase than c2d

i know im jumping in front here, but i bet his mobo doesnt support 45nm c2d’s

Quoted from AnimaL

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so why would u tell him to buy a new mobo to run amd or 45nm chip c2d when he could just buy quad for the price and run it OC’ed with a 50% performance increase than c2d

if you had a 50% fps increase going from C2D to C2Q on models with a similar clock then you must have had a severe bottleneck with your C2D.

The first thing i would do is clock the e6750 to atleast 3,4GHz.

ur cpu on die temp is 85 on which it will either shut down or force mobo to do throttling which will make ur pc lag noticably

A good temperature never should go over 60C, keeping that in mind, there is no direct harm running cpu at 70 degrees as long as u keep track of temps once in a while to make sure they dont go over 80. 80 is the unhealthy limit. Also running cpu at temps of 70-80C, will decrese the life of it, but its not likely you will see it die in next couple of years…

stress test with prime95

remember to tick advenced>round of checking to know if any errors occur!!!

Quoted from sickless

i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz should be fine

An i7 in terms of gaming has no pronounced benefit over an i5.

fps config + overclock to 4ghz = 200 fps on your rig easy
so all you really need is probs a new heatsinc and bittech.nets overclocking guides

considering that oc’d pc’s i have owned have never had the cpu die. even after 4-5 years running on a heavy oc. the theory is that the component will degrade if put under stress by excess heat. It will cut the life of the component but you will never notice this. my sis has and old p4 with a small overclock still running fine. and i doubt you will ever have a chip that old in your gaming rig.

Quoted from AnimaL

[…]thermal specification and on die temp are two different things

thermal specification is the temp the cpu was designed to operate having default intel cooler and no thermal greese

cut off on a c2d is 100c if i remember correctly