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But will there be a notical performance difference in the Q6600 over the E7200 when gaming?
 
Head Hunter said:
But will there be a notical performance difference in the Q6600 over the E7200 when gaming?
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only in some games, it pretty much depends on whether the game engine support multiple cores, but newer games should have this support, so when all the game developers start coding for multiple cores, the difference between dual and quad cores would be significant.

So look at it as an investment ;), besides u can get good OC with a Q6600 too
 
E7200

High end games are GPU dependent (Except for Supreme Commander)
 
All depends how long you hope to keep the system -- anything more than a year, the Q6600. A year or less, E7200. Nehalem looks as though it's going to wipe the floor with all the current chips though, so...
 
Nehalem dominates 4+ core EVERYTHING.

It's fucking insane, no other words to describe it.
 
Hazaro said:
Nehalem dominates 4+ core EVERYTHING.

It's fucking insane, no other words to describe it.
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indeed, but the Nehalem won't be with us (mainstream processors) until 1Q 2009 at least !! and even then you'll have to have deep pockets to get one while they are still hot
 
I read Nehalem is an upgrade over core 2 for normal computing but the main advantage is floating point, which really isn't used in general computing right ... mostly for research, compression, encoding etc etc etc?
 
E7200

I was in the same situation, I bought an E7200 [811] and its at 400x9.5=3.8GHz on a P35 chipset, this should hold me over until next architecture is released, coming from a opty 165 @2.53GHz, much nicer imo. So if you can upgrade within a years time, just get the E7200 and then you can sell it later or have a second PC (i have this new one and 9 other spares lol) that will still be really good as a file server/internet/guest pc
 
If you are primarily gaming, then the E7200 is the right choice, use the extra money for a better video card or more RAM.
 
get the E.

No point with dumping money into Q on the 775 socket. Nehalem will be your upgrade path. And besides if you really do need a quad for gaming down the line (which I doubt in the next 2 yrs) you can still buy a 775 Q *when you need it* and probably for a fraction of the price they are now.
 
flip a coin. Either will do overclocked.

The e7200 should run a little cooler and probably overclock a little higher.

However, the q6600 is a much more powerful chip IF you use apps that can take advantage of the extra cores. (mostly encoding apps)

If you upgrade often, get the cheaper e7200 and shoot for 4Ghz!
If this chip has to last you, get a q6600 the extra power will probably come in to play down the road as more & more apps become multithreaded.
 
chrisf6969 said:
flip a coin. Either will do overclocked.

The e7200 should run a little cooler and probably overclock a little higher.

However, the q6600 is a much more powerful chip IF you use apps that can take advantage of the extra cores. (mostly encoding apps)

If you upgrade often, get the cheaper e7200 and shoot for 4Ghz!
If this chip has to last you, get a q6600 the extra power will probably come in to play down the road as more & more apps become multithreaded.
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silent-circuit said:
All depends how long you hope to keep the system -- anything more than a year, the Q6600. A year or less, E7200. Nehalem looks as though it's going to wipe the floor with all the current chips though, so...
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leSLIe said:
only in some games, it pretty much depends on whether the game engine support multiple cores, but newer games should have this support, so when all the game developers start coding for multiple cores, the difference between dual and quad cores would be significant.

So look at it as an investment ;), besides u can get good OC with a Q6600 too
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qft
 
I am wondering about this myself too, but also have OC'd E2180 into the equation, save a bit more on the CPU and unload it on a better GPU - the price diff here in Canada between the E7200 and E2180 is about $80 which, in analogy, is like an upgrade from 3850 -> 3870 or a comparable path. How is this choice?

Also, DimFilter raises a good point, in max two years time Nehalem will be mainstream and financially viable for people like me (see how I am going for E2xxx lol)

so this would mean don't get Q6600, get E7200 because Q6600 will obviously be superceeded by Bloomfield and E7200/E2180 would have to be upgraded no matter what?
 
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