Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Originally posted by: demiurge3141
That review actually shows how impressive the Q6600 still is.
Yea, while not the fastest thing out there anymore, if you got in on a Q6600 early in it's life and an 8800GTX early on, you could still be quite happy with your 'old' hardware.
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: ajaidevsingh
Well PhII 940 is out of stock and the only available thing is the PhII 920. I was originally waiting for either the x3 720 or x4 925 but i read the review on donanimhaberin and gave the 920 a second taught..
Newegg has the 940 for $229 shipped.
But I could only get 3.7 out of mine, and its slower than my Q6600's@3.3 for F@H....
I am not impressed. If I was going now, I would get the Q9550 or the I7 920, depending on budget.
You're looking at only one piece of the pie mark. Your workload is 100% F@H... something AMD isn't at the top of the heap on. Look at all the reviews coming out - you'll see for all sorts of things the Phenom II is actually extremely competitive, and prices perfectly. Just take a look at AT's crossfire scaling results, and you'll see the PII does extremely well in gaming and encoding.
For people like me with an AM2+ motherboard, it's a no-brainer!
The flip side of that is for people with a 775 board and a dual core that want to go quad, it's pretty much a no brainer for them as well... and unfortunately for AMD, there are probably a lot more 775 boards then AM2+ out in the wild.