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E6600 vs Q6600

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like many of you, I am waiting for Q3 for the big price cut: Q6600 for $266.

Quad core sounds great but from reading review, there are not much benefit from Q6600.
plus it is less overclockable than E6600. Q6600 can be overlocked to 3GHz while E6600 can be overlocked up to 4GHz. many benchmarks shows very little difference between the two using everyday applications. having the best CPU is good but its power is worthless if you don't use its full potential.

Which one would you buy in Q3? and why?
 
I'm gonna grab E6600 at the end of this month when the first round of price cuts hit... by the end of the year, we will probably have the answer to weather or not the Q is that much better.. after the early adopters grab them up....if it is. Ill grab one of them then..
 
some games are starting to come out that will use the cores, so it might be worth it to get the quad
 
My Q6600 does 4ghz, well my E6600 does 5ghz, so what is the point of my post:D

Get the E6600, it will be good for a long time due to games just starting to get into dual core optimization well unless you are video editing, etc.
 
danny_discus said:
My Q6600 does 4ghz, well my E6600 does 5ghz, so what is the point of my post:D

Get the E6600, it will be good for a long time due to games just starting to get into dual core optimization well unless you are video editing, etc.
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What volts are you using for 5ghz and what are your temps?
 
An E6600 at 5Gz is not even close to blowing up...... Im going for 5gs myself, sometime next week......;)
 
danny_discus said:
My Q6600 does 4ghz, well my E6600 does 5ghz, so what is the point of my post:D

Get the E6600, it will be good for a long time due to games just starting to get into dual core optimization well unless you are video editing, etc.
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Did you use Liquid Nitrogen Coolant to overclock that much??
 
LN2 would make it a lot cooler than his current temperatures. He's probably running a cascade or something like that.
 
guys, appreciate your comment but let's not go off the topic of this thread. let's debate E6600 vs Q6600 to make a wise purchase decision. Let's keep high-overlocked bragging right to different thread.
 
Good < Great < Superb

E6600 = good video encoding, great price, great multithreaded gaming performance (when it arrives later this year/2008)

Q6600 = superb video encoding, good price, superb multithreaded gaming performance (when it arrives later this year/2008)

Basically, if you have applications that can use four cores now then by all means buy the Q6600. But if you don't, just get an E6600. You can overclock it more for better non-threaded applications/game performance. And when more multithreaded apps/games come out, then upgrade to a quad core. By that time DDR3 might be ubiquitous and help with RAM performance a multithreaded app might need.

Just my 2 cents...
 
there are already two games out that make full use of dual or quad core...more to come. Why not make the investment into the future?
 
Pkirk618 said:
valve, supcom and others are going quad. Me wants.
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What is Crysis going to be?

Quad core will be utilized, and eventually, made into, "the normal processor."

Slowly, people will move from single core, to dual core, and from what Intel is saying, 80-core processors.

As of right now, for gaming, the Q6600 and the QX6700 are the odd-balls.

But, come Q3 2007, when some DX10 games, with 25,000 on-screen object limits are released, quad-core MAY or MAY NOT be amazing in that area.

As of right now, I am just waiting with my E6300.
When price cuts come, I am just going to grab a quad-core, due to future potential.
 
Personally. Ide Grab Q6600 due to the nature of it being <$300 in Q3. Thats the price of E6600 now. Hense + 4mb cache.

Yet E6600 and Q6600 are both great overclockers, It all depends on what you want.

Me personally. Its dropping 50% in price. And I dont see any future upgrade for years to come after the purchase.. My e6300 is great for what it does now. But cant handle the workloads at times.

My 2 cents
 
i you guys are like me, multitasky: playing game, while working with excel, while recording video, while browsing the web. This is where Q6600 is useful and leads ahead.
From this review, Q6600 performs better than E6700 by 65&#37; in multi-application environtment and consumes more energy by 40%.

however, from the stats here, Q6600 is very less overlockable than E6600. why is this? is Q6600 cpu is the same as E6600?
 
foxnews said:
i you guys are like me, multitasky: playing game, while working with excel, while recording video, while browsing the web. This is where Q6600 is useful and leads ahead.
From this review, Q6600 performs better than E6700 by 65% in multi-application environtment and consumes more energy by 40%.

however, from the stats here, Q6600 is very less overlockable than E6600. why is this? is Q6600 cpu is the same as E6600?
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The reason Q6600's don't clock as well are as follows:

1. Motherboards do not support high FSB on quadcores as they do on dualcores, I have seen 600+ FSB on a dualcore as opposed to right around 500 FSB tops on a quadcore. I know my Q6600 can go higher but my board only allows 481 FSB on the Q6600.
2. Also the dualcores generate ALOT less heat compared to quadcores and as we all know more heat equals worse clocks. Example: At 1.272v at 3.6ghz on my Q6600 with phase the "CPU" temp will hit 0 C as opposed to my E6600 at 1.39v at 4ghz will hit -19 C, both Orthos stable :D. Anyways that is just an observation I have made.

BTW, 5ghz was on dry ice, cpu will hit 4.8 on phase.
 
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