Ahoy Ahoy, first thread on these forums for me I think.
Anyhow, I'm building a new rig soon, around late July I think.
I'll be using it to play games and do levels for the Unreal engine mostly, among the usualy stuff. (browsing, etc).
SO, my original plan was to grab a an E6600, since I figured it sported a good back for the buck. But I heard that the quad core version, Q6600 was coming down to a price similar to that of the E6600.
My question is: what to get? I heard the Q6600 actually packs less of a punch per core, meaning that when just one or two of em are used, it should performs worse than the E6600.
For reference, I'll be getting a 8800GTS, a PhysX card, 2x2gb Corsair xms2 ram in an Asus P5N32-E sli (not Plus, god forbid).
Thanks
Anyhow, I'm building a new rig soon, around late July I think.
I'll be using it to play games and do levels for the Unreal engine mostly, among the usualy stuff. (browsing, etc).
SO, my original plan was to grab a an E6600, since I figured it sported a good back for the buck. But I heard that the quad core version, Q6600 was coming down to a price similar to that of the E6600.
My question is: what to get? I heard the Q6600 actually packs less of a punch per core, meaning that when just one or two of em are used, it should performs worse than the E6600.
For reference, I'll be getting a 8800GTS, a PhysX card, 2x2gb Corsair xms2 ram in an Asus P5N32-E sli (not Plus, god forbid).
Thanks