Worth getting Q6600 over E6600 @ 3.5

tidyboy21

tidyboy21

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Worth it or no? I've been looking at getting a Q6600 for a while now. Main use would be Photoshop CS3 (files over 100mb+), gaming, etc. I do plan on overclocking it to 3.2 - 3.4 on current cooling in sig, as I can't really afford water cooling yet (camera lenses come first).
 
I think he already has the e6600 and is wondering if the upgrade to the q6600 is worth it. Not that he wants to choose between the two.

The q6600 is essentially two e6600's. If you can turn around sell the e6600 for a reasonable price, I would say go for it. But if your not running more than one app, or have apps that are seriously multithreaded, I personally dont think it would be worth the money, especially if you cant either sell the e6600 or find another use for it.

If money isn't an issue, than theres no reason to ask, you already chose what you were going to do.
 
In the process of building a pc, I said I was getting the E6600 and was almost immediately shot down in favor of the Q6600. In all honesty though, I don't have the pc fully built yet so I haven't been able to try out the Q6600 for myself, but if the extra bit of cash isn't an issue for you, I'd certianly go for the better CPU
 
Nightrain said:
I think he already has the e6600 and is wondering if the upgrade to the q6600 is worth it. Not that he wants to choose between the two.

The q6600 is essentially two e6600's. If you can turn around sell the e6600 for a reasonable price, I would say go for it. But if your not running more than one app, or have apps that are seriously multithreaded, I personally dont think it would be worth the money, especially if you cant either sell the e6600 or find another use for it.

If money isn't an issue, than theres no reason to ask, you already chose what you were going to do.
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whoops..:P I didn't check his sig when I was replying...

In that case, I agree with Nightrain's suggestion. If you can sell the e6600 and have many multithreaded apps then get the q6600. Otherwise, you are fine for now. At least until better processors come out.
 
Honestly, I dont think it's worth it. The new quad-cores will be coming out Q1 '08 with 12MB L2 cache and 1333Mhz FSB. Theres not a huge performance improvement yet since most games wont show an improvement.
 
[-0MEGA-];776634 said:
Honestly, I dont think it's worth it. The new quad-cores will be coming out Q1 '08 with 12MB L2 cache and 1333Mhz FSB. Theres not a huge performance improvement yet since most games wont show an improvement.
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Any idea how much the new quad-core would be?
 
b3rt_d4ni3l said:
Any idea how much the new quad-core would be?
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You can see the prices from here
http://www.computerforum.com/98406-intel-45nm-cpus-price-list.html


You can see the benchmark for QX9650 from here
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/idf-f2007-3_3.html

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Those new Quad Cores perform around 10% better per clock.

In applications that supports the new SSE4 instruction it performs more than 60% faster per clock, but there are very few application that support SSE4. So, the SSE4 is useless now but in the future we might see some more applications and games that support SSE4
 
I can see what you are all saying about waiting for the new quads to come out and I know my mobo (see sig) supports 1333 but I'm not sure if it supports 45nm, or even if it will in the future with any bios updates, anyone know? I don't really want to change my mobo for a while.
 
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