Is it time to go Quad?

Knivez

Knivez

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Currently I have the E6850 its fast its cool I got a lot of room to overclock but the kid in me that always wants the latest and greatest thinks i should have a quad-core instead.
The E6850 is fast and what kind of performance increase would I see if I switched to a Quad? Would it be comparable to just overclock mine to 3.4?
I do alot of gaming Crisis (kinda), COD4, ect...



My system is liquid cooled I just haven't gotten around to overclocking it as of yet, and I wont if I should just get a quad core.
 
It depends what quad you go for, i know the Q6600 can OC up to about 3GHZ, but you have liquid cooling which would be a lot better and would be able to OC higher.
 
well ive been thinking the same thing,should i get a Q6600 or Q6700 or just stick with my Core 2 Duo for a bit :o

Like Funky said many games/software dont take advantage of it anyway yet so by the time they can take advantage, the quads we have now on the market will probably be outdated anyway.
 
well that depends really on what core2duo you have!

your [email protected] isnt going to be top competition to a [email protected] but if he could clock his up to 3.4ghz there wont be much difference

but as people on here have mentioned there are far more factors than clock speed, there is the cache and fsb to take into consideration-!

but nevakonaza you are right in what you are saying and i do agree but my problem is i like new stuff and i couldnt resist the quad its a fault of mine lol
 
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If you really want an increase in gaming ability, just get a new video card...getting a new CPU is only going to help a tiny bit.
 
there will be a huge difference for video editing and video conversion.

as far as gaming goes, they can optimize it for quad core right now, but it'll still use about 25% of each core or something like that, but your fps will be bottlenecked by the video card instead... so they never bothered to optimize for quad core.

but, in the next year or two they should, and the games will get higher in quality because of it.. and you'll want to have quad core... of course, with core i7 coming out, you may want to wait.

me personally, im switching out my core 2 duo for a Q6600, because my motherboard supports it, and i will likely sell my C2D with the extra motherboard and 2x1gb of ram that i have... or just make a file server out of it or something cool like that.
 
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