Originally posted by: secretanchitman
Q6600 G0...any of the newer conroe chips (e6550, e6750, e6850). you cant go wrong with them.
if you wanted to wait for 45nm chips, you could buy a cheap cpu (celeron/pentium c2d based), then sell it and upgrade to the 45nm...
Originally posted by: jbzx86
Q6600 is the processor, the "G0" is the stepping. You had it in your original post. What I am doing is waiting until the mainstream Penryn-based quad-core processors are released in January/February. For $316, you can get the Q9450 which runs at 2.66Ghz per core with a 12MB L2 cache. Looking at preliminary overclock results, you could push one of these to 4.0Ghz no problem.
Originally posted by: AVP
The Abit IP35 series are supposed to go up to 500mhz
Originally posted by: btcomm1
I've looked at benchmarks, so far it seems a quad core will be better because it has more cache on it.
I've been thinking about getting the Q6600 G0 stepping.
Is there anything better for the money that is coming out now or before christmas?