With the pretty tempting price of Q6600s at MicroCenter, I've been mulling over replacing my E4300 @ 2.8Ghz. I generally photoedit, listen to music, occasionally watch high def content, web browse, etc (pretty basic stuff) on my computer. I've not really noticed much in terms of sluggish performance with my current rig, but if the Q6600 would make a marked improvement (particularly in the photoediting spot while listening to music and having multiple other applications open) over my E4300, I might go ahead and grab me one. Any thoughts or pointers? Thanks.
E4300 >> Q6600
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Q6600 should give you an improvement in multitasking,though if your board supports them,wait for the Yorkfield Quad Cores.
The original DS3 doesn't support Yorkies if I understand correctly...
Edit: My rev 3.3 DS3 apparently does support Yorkfield with an Unoffical BIOS offered by Gigabyte. But... is it worth paying $100 more for a Yorkfield vs. a regular Q6600? (Q9450 will be around $300 right)?
Edit: My rev 3.3 DS3 apparently does support Yorkfield with an Unoffical BIOS offered by Gigabyte. But... is it worth paying $100 more for a Yorkfield vs. a regular Q6600? (Q9450 will be around $300 right)?
Not sure,but the Q9300 is supposed to be around $266,it only has a 7.5x Multiplier so that might hurt OCing,though it should reach at least 3.0-3.2GHz at least,Xbitlabs got it to 3.5GHz,though that was with a ASUS P5E3 X38:
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/c...uad-q9300_6.html#sect0
Either way I personally dont think its worth the upgrade. I had the E4300 and the only reason I got the Q6600 is because I needed a 24" monitor and jumped on the Dell deal in Hot Deals section here. I have a family member that needs a upgraded computer so I just took the Q6600 out of the Dell and threw it in my machine and gave them my E4300. I essentially only paid $200 for a 24" monitor and a upgraded processor, lol. But if I had to pay $200 just for the upgraded processor then I would say no, Especially for what you use your PC for.
IMO hang on to ur e4300 until nehalem / amd's next gen at least. you will see a better gain in performance or in the worst case scenario that nehalem isnt much better than the current core 2's, at least the q6600 or maybe q6700 prices will be cheaper at that time too.
IF you don't think it's slow yet, just wait. In a few months pricing on all Penryns will be normal as volume shipments hit (probably next month).
Since you mention Photos, if we're talking Photoshop CS3 it doesn't support quad much yet AFAIK (you may find filters that do better than below I'm sure). Doubtful any lesser package would either. For your usage a quad looks pretty pointless.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html
Pick Photoshop CS3 and a 3ghz Wolfdate (E8400) vs 3ghz Yorkfield (Q9650). Thats 1:39 to 1:40. I'd venture to guess the cache is the 1 second difference
It can't be quad Unless Adobe sucks at making quad work...LOL. You can pick any other same mhz chips and you'll find the same (assuming the same process on the chips you pick...Conroe vs.Kentsfield, or Wolf vs Yorkie). Maybe better next year. By then even cheaper too Also I'm wondering if they are in stock at that price ($199). Limit 1 because of availability they state? Are they gone, and you'll get an email saying that the next day after your order?
Anyone confirm they're in stock at that price, meaning someone actually got a tracking#?
Also your E4300 should hit 3ghz fairly easily. I've only had one that didn't (and that was only because I didn't like shipping one to another state at the voltage it required). When you think it's slow just overclock the crap out of it...
[EDIT] with a little more digging on photoshop (I was curious..heh)
http://www.techspot.com/review...ntel-core2-quad-q6600/
15% they state.
Here's a thread with more:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=438167
Maybe it's a bit better than I thought, but YMMV. If I did anything all day for money, I'd probably bet quad anyway. If I could do my job faster in any way shape or form from a quad and I'm counting my money (heh) I'm in. But home stuff...hmm...I ponder it longer, wait for prices to drop, more apps to show it, more games etc. Myself I went with really fast dual (E3110, should be great OCer - I'll know shortly but everyone else has pretty much proven it already) because I can see that every day and in pretty much every app/game to some degree (most a large degree).
my e4300 on my DS3 3.3 is running 333x9 @ 1.45 and has been doing so for about 4-5 months. I had it at 2.7ghz from the day I got it at the end of last spring to the day I oc'ed it to 2.96. Stock HS/Fan although I am tempted to get the Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 because I love the way the Pro 64 version looks in my Opteron 180 rig.
I upgraded from the E4300 on the ga 965p s3 (3.3) and it was as simple as swapping them out....
my e4300 at 3240 was fast. the q6600 ar 3150 is just as fast, but will not lag, even in vid editing. would runn a 4 pass cce encode of a dvd with the e4300 and have to walk away for the duration.
assigned it to 2 cores on the q6600 and i don even know its running...
great improvement in multi tasking.
but in day to day use, no diff. only upped my 3dmark06 score about 1200 points.....
but i wante a quad.... i know c2d run faster, but intel is building multi core for future, not higher clocks...
when they release a factory clock at 4.0 or better, ill think differently.. but 8 cores are comming next
my e4300 at 3240 was fast. the q6600 ar 3150 is just as fast, but will not lag, even in vid editing. would runn a 4 pass cce encode of a dvd with the e4300 and have to walk away for the duration.
assigned it to 2 cores on the q6600 and i don even know its running...
great improvement in multi tasking.
but in day to day use, no diff. only upped my 3dmark06 score about 1200 points.....
but i wante a quad.... i know c2d run faster, but intel is building multi core for future, not higher clocks...
when they release a factory clock at 4.0 or better, ill think differently.. but 8 cores are comming next
dang.. that's pretty tempting, but I think I'll hold off to late 2008/early 2009 and might just do a complete overhaul.
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