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LOL? Hypocrite much? On a serious note, I don't think AMD will overtake Intel anytime soon. The only chance is if Intel majorly f***s up Haswell or future generations of CPUs, because at the moment they roughly have a ~2 year advantage on performance and ~1 year advantage in process technology.

lightp2, The 'K' models are only about $10 more than the equivalent non-K model. Not much of an added expense at all.

In terms of single-threaded performance, it won't come close to that. But if you are talking total throughput where you take into account the IMC + HT then it could very well come to 50%+, obviously it depends on the specific application.

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Yeah sorry I got my models confused, the Q8300 is $90 and Q9300 is $99, at those prices I'd definitely go with the Q9300. The P35-DS3s aren't renowned for reaching very high FSBs with quads, but 400MHz FSB should be OK. It'll be a massive boost over your E2180 in games.

For gaming, you're better off with the i5. The X6 1090T is faster at tasks that use all 6 cores, like video encoding. Like I said previously though, it's probably worth the wait for SB, especially if you intend to keep this new system as long as your last system. ;)

Just go with the $99 Q8300, overclock it to 3GHz+ and call it a day until your next big upgrade which will probably be Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer. It's not worth investing in a new DDR2 platform at this point in time, and I definitely wouldn't suggest a new DDR3 build with SB right around the corner.

To see a noticeable improvement in games from an overclocked Q6600 @ 3GHz+ you need a Core i5 or i7 quad... Phenom IIs aren't much faster per clock, in fact I think they're about equal IPC wise. http://www.techspot.com/review/336-cod-black-ops-performance/

Not exactly... there will be S1356 later on in the year as the replacement for LGA1366, but that's not really relevant for LGA1155 SB users. LGA1155 will be the new 'mainstream' socket for Intel for at least the next 12 months, why would you buy into an EOL socket right before the new socket...

Agreed with DaFox, go with AMD on your budget... Look at a cheap Phenom X3 or X4 I reckon...

It's about 2 leagues below if you consider that it needs 3.6GHz to be 1 league below a stock 2.66GHz i5, which itself can be overclocked to 4GHz. ;) Don't get me wrong, the Q6600 was a great chip for its time, but I think it's at the stage where it'll start bottlenecking a mid range GTX460 /...

Not to put a dampener on this thread, but the Q6600 is starting to show its age in the latest games... Call of Duty: Black Ops Starcraft II Civilization 5 Of course these benchmarks are shown with the Q6600 @ 2.4GHz, at 3GHz+ it will be faster, but compared to Core i5 / i7 it's not...

Indeed... it should be pointed out that the i5 / i7 chips are in a differerent price class, especially after the latest AMD price cuts. At comparable price points the AMD chips stack up well, with the exception of the X6 1075T vs i5 750. Btw, I think Turbo was disabled because on the previous...

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More Intel ownage, COD:BO numbers are out: http://www.techspot.com/review/336-cod-black-ops-performance/page8.html Phenom really gets it ass handed to it in this game... and thats with stock i5 / i7s @ 2.66GHz! Imagine what a ~5GHz SB chip would do to it! :eek: It would literally double...