Decisions, Decisions...

[CptFalcon]

Which is a better buy for me a QX6700 or a X6800 for a real 1337 gaming PC that I will also use for CAD? Need answers, FAST! (please! )

 

[Rob Black]

I would go with the QX6700. Quad over dual cores any day of the week.

 

[keldegar]

if you are doing CAD the QX6700 will outperform the x6800. at stock, the x6800 (since it has a higher clock and most games are not multi-threaded) outperforms the qx6700 in games.

however you can overclock..

 

[enumae]

VR-Zone Cadalyst 2006

Maybe this will help.

He was willing to test it, and it seems very quick.

I can't afford it, but I did get an E6400 and overclocked it to 3GHz, I will run the test tonight and post a screen shot for a reference.

Keep in mind a good graphics card goes along way in CAD as well.

I do Autocad as well, as well as beta test, the future version of Autocad should get a nice boost from multiple cores and Vista.

 

[CptFalcon]

if you are doing CAD the QX6700 will outperform the x6800. at stock, the x6800 (since it has a higher clock and most games are not multi-threaded) outperforms the qx6700 in games.

however you can overclock..

Well I could just build 2 identical PC's and have the QX6700 in one and the X6800 in another...

 

[keldegar]

Well I could just build 2 identical PC's and have the QX6700 in one and the X6800 in another...

well future games like alan wake ARE multithreaded and will be faster on the qx6700.
software has to catch up to hardware..

 

[enumae]

It seems the test was faster, but not the score.

For comparison...

Dual Opteron MB PCI-E, with AMD Dual Core
Opteron 280 (2.4GHz) CPUs, 2GB PC3200 Memory, nVIDIA Quadro
FX4500 graphics card, and 2xWD SATA 74G 10K RPM Hard Disk
(8M Cache) configured for RAID-0 (striping).

This sytem scored a 145, also look at the graphics card

My system has an X1900XT.

Hope it helps.

 

[CptFalcon]

Going to get the QX6700, thanks for the advice!