Upgrade or Paranoia?

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I just built my system about a month ago, and already I am getting paranoid that I need to upgrade my processor. Is it necessary to upgrade from E6750 to Q6600? Is there a tremendous performance gain, or am I just being paranoid? I decided it would be best to save around $85-90 at the time of purchase, but now I don't know if I made a wise decision. I don't play games and don't want to overclock this machine (yet), but I'm still unsure if I need the extra benefits of the quad core... Guess I just need to be reassured or something.
 
PC_User said:
I just built my system about a month ago, and already I am getting paranoid that I need to upgrade my processor. Is it necessary to upgrade from E6750 to Q6600? Is there a tremendous performance gain, or am I just being paranoid? I decided it would be best to save around $85-90 at the time of purchase, but now I don't know if I made a wise decision. I don't play games and don't want to overclock this machine (yet), but I'm still unsure if I need the extra benefits of the quad core... Guess I just need to be reassured or something.
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If you had the money at the time it would of been a good deal. Money is why they have the other cpu's. You may not have taken advantage of the 4 cores, but that would of been now. What about later? You never know! Overkill is underrated! hehehe :D
 
PC_User said:
I just built my system about a month ago, and already I am getting paranoid that I need to upgrade my processor. Is it necessary to upgrade from E6750 to Q6600? Is there a tremendous performance gain, or am I just being paranoid? I decided it would be best to save around $85-90 at the time of purchase, but now I don't know if I made a wise decision. I don't play games and don't want to overclock this machine (yet), but I'm still unsure if I need the extra benefits of the quad core... Guess I just need to be reassured or something.
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What do you do that needs so much CPU? Unless you're going to use the additional CPU power the Q6600 will only eat more power do pretty much nothing extra.
 
Unless you're maxing out both cores constantly, no need for 2 more. I'm an engineer, with 6-9 programs open 8 hours a day, 6750 does just fine.
 
What exactly do you use your computer for?

There's no need to be paranoid. It's not like the processors are going to run away, let alone skyrocket in price. Only thing that will happen is that new ones are going to be released hence lowering the price of the ones before it.

Just as Maxtr0sity said, if you're not maxing out both your cores constantly - there's no need imo for a quad yet.

I do alot of graphic work, so the quad has improved performance by some margin. It really doesn't do much when I'm just utilizing one app such as photoshop. But the usual case is that I have Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, zend studio and other apps all up at the same time. In such cases, it does improve performance.

If you're not feeling any negative impacts from the cpu's performance, just wait until you actually start noticing that you *need* the extra ummph.
 
eewww you have a x800... :D J/K

Just a funny pair imho.

Unless you get a great sell value out of the e6750 its just money down the drain.
 
I went with the E6750 because I don't need a quadcore right now. However, I do plan on upgrading to a quadcore within a year. ;) Hopefully, there will be a nice quadcore in the $200 pricerange with 12MB L2 Cache and at least 1333Mhz FSB QDR -- within a year from now.
 
save the money you would have spent on the q6600 and buy a better video card.
 
forrehmmnd said:
save the money you would have spent on the q6600 and buy a better video card.
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That would be a wise decision, but the X800 is all that I need right now. I don't game, and it provides me with more than adequate performance for my needs.

Thanks for everyone's reassuring thoughts...I now understand that I don't need the Q6600.
 
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