Q6600 or E6850?

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I'm going to switch from AMD to INTEL and need help chooseing between the two cpu's I,m putting the cpu in the EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i Motherboard. Looking to overclock so want the best bang for the buck:D Thanx
 
If you want to overclock go with the E6750 if you want dual core. For quad, Q6600 is the best choice.

What do you use the computer for?
 
I use the computer for gaming mostly, want to run games at 1920x1200 have 8800 gtx whole system is watercooled. Thanx for the help:cool:
 
Crucible1001 said:
If you want to overclock go with the E6750 if you want dual core. For quad, Q6600 is the best choice.

What do you use the computer for?
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Q6600s overclock just fine, I have a B3 which is the lower end q6600 and I can get it to 3.6ghz, right now its at 3.4ghz. There is no reason to get a dual core these days, not that they are bad, but that quad core has a brighter future.
 
Well, at least for me, I upgrade once a year. Within the next 12 months, I don't think I will need a quad core. I won't be seeing any real performance increase for gaming.

Now in the future, sure I will. That is why in one year I will buy a Penryn quad.
 
Off hand I'm not sure the difference in price, but if they're close, personally, I'd opt for 4-vs-2.
 
Yah, if you want to spend $300 on a CPU, get the quadcore, lol. The E6850 is just a waste of money, since you're paying $100 more for 333mhz that you could get for free with the E6750.
 
I just cannot get around the 2 xtra cores for basically free, the dual might/probally will OC more but quads at 3.2GHz with a good setup, (rework the board thermals after testing out of the case and before installing. ) and having all that horse power run like scalded cats. I have to say go quad even if you dont run anything what specifically uses 4 cores, windows will distribute the load for most things.


PC6400 (800 Mhz) 4 4 4 12 memory is all you need, but look at the higher speeds sfuff if the price difference is not too bad. Being able to unlink the memory speed from the cpu FSB speed is nice on those boards. No worries about mulipliers to make sure your memory is not being underclocked when running stuff like 9 x 360 for a 3.2ish OC .
(memory would run at 720, undeclocked, and next memory mulitplier would probally OC the memory a bit too much and require looser timings. You will not have that issue. )
 
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