Thanks for any input.
Hyperthread.
^Yeah, that seems like the best route. I completely agree with nevakonaza: Although it's completely true that the i7s are a good amount faster than the C2Qs, will you actually take advantage of that extra speed? I guess the question is: Is your Q6600 posing a problem in any way? Unless it's making you unable to do something, then it's not worth the upgrade. If all you want is some faster program launching or something, once you go into quad-core CPUs, the only thing slowing you down there is your hard drive (or maybe your RAM if you have less than 2gb available for program use.) In my case, though, I think it was pretty stupid of me to believe that putting an old Compaq 9.1GB SCSI 10krpm drive in a beat-up Pentium 4 OC rig would be any faster than putting in a 7200RPM 40GB Sata WD.
) because it was a much better upgrade and would last longer.
Exactly. Heck, for web surfing and basic tasks, Pentium 4s still have something left in them. The thing is, if you upgrade to the newest thing constantly and sell your old stuff, you'll end up paying the same after upgrading 5 times as someone would pay skipping from the original build to the fifth upgrade. Especially from a C2Q to a Core i7. A C2Q OC'd to 3+GHz won't be a bottleneck for a good few years to come.I don't mean wait for better, I meant what I said, wait for the current very high end to be standard - high.
What is the point in upgrading from a quad core with pretty good performance, to a quad core with slightly better performance? If you are going to upgrade, may aswell do it properly.
What I mean is I went from an e6750. I wasn't going to from that to an X6800 was I? It is still a dual core, just a better one. Instead I went for a quad (I know it is tri, but I unlocked the core, was what I planned on doing
the i7's will last longer, but I think the C2Q's still have quite a bit of life left in them yet