Countryman
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Yep, buy a long way.
Why buy when you can rent?
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Yep, buy a long way.
Direct comparison of E6850 vs. Q6600: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038&p=8
3D modeling & encoding = Q6600 clearly wins
gaming & gen usage = E6850 wins
Skip to the last page of article:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038&p=16
Basically they say buy the Q6600.
You can overclock the Q6600 to get the same performance as the E6850 now.
Encoding sees a huge benefit now. often 40%
And in the future more & more apps will benefit from quad vs. dual.
But can you overclock the Q6600 to E6850 performance without water cooling? If not,then a decent watercooled setup would kill my budget.
But can you overclock the Q6600 to E6850 performance without water cooling? If not,then a decent watercooled setup would kill my budget.
In theory:
E6850 @ 4Ghz = ` 8Ghz of processing power
Q6600 @ 2.8ghz = 11.2Ghz of processing power
You can overclock the Q6600 to get the same performance as the E6850 now.
Again - Q6600 and OC it to ~3Ghz!
The new stepping of the quads is supposed to drop the wattage / heat considerably. But even if you can "only" hit 2.6, 2.8+ etc.... (not quite 3Ghz) You HAVE 4 CORES at that speed. Do you know how much power that is!!
Sorry if I'm not very on-topic and helping here, but anyway...
I know that I myself have asked the same question as asked here many times, and I know that I'm no better myself. BUT there is a HEAVY amount of threads on this subject on this forum now and the number is growing.
Am I the only one who sees the need for a pinned thread which answers and discusses this problem? Just to get rid of this question, so that other issues can be discussed.
I've done some research into quad cores vs dual cores after I posted myself, and I've come to the conclusion that there is no definite answer to which one the user should buy.
It's like cars really if you look at it the right way.
Lets say you want a car that can go over terrain, climb mountains and pack all the hiking gear in the world, you go buy a Four-Wheel Drive Landrover. It doesn't go 200mph, but it can pull a lot of stuff around.
If on you other hand you want to race your buddies through town at midnight, you spend your money on a Lancer Evo 8, it does go 200pmg, but it can't pack a shed load of gear.
See the difference? if you want to do a lot of stuff at the same time or pull heavy loads (rendering or video encoding etc) you would probably be better off with the quadcore. if you want to game the night away and go blazingly fast, but don't really have much other use, you buy the Dualcore.
BUT then again, games might later on take all the advantage of a quad core. So it's all a matter of what needs you have, and wether or not you believe in the future.
At any rate, I would be more than willing to explain this more in detail in a longer post, if people around here agree that we have need for such a thread.
Wether or not it'll be a closed one, or an ongoing discussion, but my point remains: We need ONE SINGLE thread that people can refer to for information on this subject. Multiple threads asking the same question doesn't go anywhere.
Sounds like a great opportunity for the [H] to get a pre-release build of Crysis and run some e6850 vs q6600 benchmarks for us!!
cant u just oc the q6600 to the 6850 speeds, then the q6600 would be better in everything.
just one more question, if at the same speed (say both at 3.0ghz), the q6600 would be exact same as the e6850 in programs that does not take advantage of multicores right?
just one more question, if at the same speed (say both at 3.0ghz), the q6600 would be exact same as the e6850 in programs that does not take advantage of multicores right?
Yes, but the quad core would cost you a lot more than the dual core so if you want bang for buck the E6850 would be the better choice.
There are actually quite a few recent and upcoming titles that are designed to take advantage of multithreading, with the Alan Wake devs going as far as saying that to try and play their game on a single core is just foolish although possible with hyperthreading (albeit at a huge performance penalty).Sounds like a great opportunity for the [H] to get a pre-release build of Crysis and run some e6850 vs q6600 benchmarks for us!!
Sounds like a great opportunity for the [H] to get a pre-release build of Crysis and run some e6850 vs q6600 benchmarks for us!!