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Really still $200+?

Why are these processors still so expensive!? You'd think that with the new i7 stuff coming out, that these would go down in cost.
 
well it is still a large manufacturing process. perhaps they actually can't lower the price?
 
They're making less of them, hence the higher price.

Buy one used on the forum. You should easily be able to get one for <$150
 
The Q6600 is EOL. It is no longer a commodity item, so the price isn't likely to drop any more.
 
Sojuuk said:
Q8*00 is prolly better anyways.
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Not really. The smaller cache offsets the greater per-clock speed from the smaller processs and tweaks on the 8 series, and the 8 series are fairly low multiplier, but the Q6600 is a 9x which is fairly high for a quad. Many Q6600s will hit 3.6Ghz on air. Good luck getting an 8 series anywhere near that high on most boards.
 
silent-circuit said:
Not really. The smaller cache offsets the greater per-clock speed from the smaller processs and tweaks on the 8 series, and the 8 series are fairly low multiplier, but the Q6600 is a 9x which is fairly high for a quad. Many Q6600s will hit 3.6Ghz on air. Good luck getting an 8 series anywhere near that high on most boards.
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Q8400 has an 8 multiplier. I don;t think 3.6ghz would be a struggle for that.
 
Sojuuk said:
Q8400 has an 8 multiplier. I don;t think 3.6ghz would be a struggle for that.
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Indeed. That would require an FSB of 450, which any decent P45 board should be able to do. However, the lower-end models like the Q8200 and Q8300 are not very good choices for overclocking.
 
Zero82z said:
Indeed. That would require an FSB of 450, which any decent P45 board should be able to do. However, the lower-end models like the Q8200 and Q8300 are not very good choices for overclocking.
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even though they can't compete with overclocking the Q8200 amazingly cheap and should still easily do 3ghz. Those merits should be considered before dismissing it.

the Q8300 is the ugly duckling here it's more expensive than a Q8400................ Just avoid Q8300 i think.
 
Sojuuk said:
even though they can't compete with overclocking the Q8200 amazingly cheap and should still easily do 3ghz. Those merits should be considered before dismissing it.

the Q8300 is the ugly duckling here it's more expensive than a Q8400................ Just avoid Q8300 i think.
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True, but again, the Q6600 is still a much better choice than the Q8200 or Q8300 when it comes to overclocking.
 
$125 to $150 on the buy and sell, depending on the VID and overclocking potentional. I paid $180 for a couple new boxed/retail Q6600's in January/February of 2008!!!, so no justification for them still being over $200 a year later in my opinion. Of course, if you want one last heroin shot upgrade for an aging system with a motherboard that won't take 45nm parts, it's the only way to go.
 
I have the Q6600 as well. I don't really feel a need to upgrade. Am I missing out on a great performance upgrade to justify getting a different mobo and proc?
 
calikool said:
I have the Q6600 as well. I don't really feel a need to upgrade. Am I missing out on a great performance upgrade to justify getting a different mobo and proc?
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No, assuming you game primarily. Get it up to ~3.2Ghz and leave it alone. You should be good for at least another year, possibly two. i7 doesn't offer gamers much unless you start talking about Tri-SLI and 30" LCDs at 2560x1600.

If you're doing a lot of heavy Photoshop work, video editing, video encoding, things like that... i7 will offer a considerable boost. Even then, the question is... is it fast enough for what you're doing now? Unless you're frustrated by a perceived slowness, I'd leave well enough alone for the time being.
 
Mackowitz said:
$125 to $150 on the buy and sell, depending on the VID and overclocking potentional.
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Exactly...I see them every day for less that $150.00..there are few people still gouging by trying to get $180.00 for a used CPU...

and don't pay too much attention to VID.....its been proven to be pretty useless in estimating overclocking potential.

Look around and you should easily be able to get one for about $140.00 tops....
 
silent-circuit said:
No, assuming you game primarily. Get it up to ~3.2Ghz and leave it alone.
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I should probably try and overclock the processer and get more potential out of it. I don't need anything crazy. I think moving the it up to 2.8Ghz would be possible without stressing the CPU too much.
 
I went from a Q8200 to a Q6700 both at stock and the difference was HUGE for my PS2 and Wii emulators about the 8200 ran at 50fps and would dip into the 30's and the q6700 runs in the 60's and will dip into the 50's.
 
The main reasons the Q6600 is better than the Q8XXX series is cache and overclockability.. They are too expensive still, but they are rock solid.
 
calikool said:
I should probably try and overclock the processer and get more potential out of it. I don't need anything crazy. I think moving the it up to 2.8Ghz would be possible without stressing the CPU too much.
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You have the same heat sink and mobo as me. I put mine at 3.0 with just a fsb boost and its been like that for almost a year...
 
Perhaps to encourage people to buy i7's.

People keep saying the i7's are expensive, but chips like the 920 are actually amazingly cheap for such powerful computing solutions especially if you compare them to the prices for EOL 775 CPU's like the Q6600.
 
echn111 said:
Perhaps to encourage people to buy i7's.

People keep saying the i7's are expensive, but chips like the 920 are actually amazingly cheap for such powerful computing solutions especially if you compare them to the prices for EOL 775 CPU's like the Q6600.
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You can't compare them..Going i7 means a whole new build so your not just talking about the price of JUST the processor.
 
That depends on your circumstances. If you're going to build a new PC, you ARE going to compare them as it would be foolish not to.
 
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