Worth getting i7?

I have a quad core Q9650 right now and from what I hear it's not worth it to upgrade, is that ture? Isn't Inel going to come out with a new chip in a month to?

Your quad should be able to hold its ground for a while, I wouldn't bother upgrading.

Only problem your going to see is that Intel isn't making chips anymore for LGA 775.

Meaning if you want to upgrade you'll need mobo, RAM and CPU... I'm sure you knew that though.

Hi You have a high end quad for LGA 775. That should hold

you for at least 2 to 3 more years.

If you have to ask: no, you'd probably have little use for the extra power an i7 would provide. You'd really only see a major performance increase in highly-parallel tasks like encoding, or possibly in certain multitasking situations.

If you're just gaming, though, you'd basically see zero difference with game performance being GPU-limited these days.

No lol. Not with an i5 around and GPU bottlenecks by the gazillions.

Get a new video card where it matters.