Widescreen Gaming Forum

I ran my 5870 with my old e6750 running at 3.3ghz for a couple weeks, and upon getting my q9550 i saw a pretty fair jump gaming performance. The e6750 really seemed to be choking that video card. So ya, it'll help. My ram sucks at overclocking, so the most I've been able to get our of my q9550 is 3.5ghz or so. Using the Freezer 64 Pro i used on my old CPU. It overcclocks just as easily.

But in retrospect, i should've bitten the bullet and went with an i7 system. I was jsut to cheap to get mew mobo/ram, even though i could afford it at the time

Anyone who thinks a C2D is an acceptable gaming CPU these days is far off the mark.

A C2D, regardless of speed, is antiquated architecture that seriously constricts even a GTX 280 SLI. It would definitely choke a 5850 CF.