E6600 or Q6600

[AmberClad]

So here's the question I'm facing: upgrade to the E6600 now, or wait until the July 22nd Intel price cut and get the Q6600 for only a little more?

The major considerations would be how much of an improvement as far as gaming there would be (performance in other tasks, I don't really care about), and maybe more importantly, how much more power would it need and how much more heat would it generate?

I guess the third option would be to wait until July 22nd, and then get the E6600.

 

[Blain]

E6600 now...
You might get hit by a bus in a month.
Q6600 = More Heat :laugh:

 

[dclive]

Other option: Get E6400, OC to levels above E6600 (I get 3.2 without issue), and be happy.

The Quad-cores aren't really that great for gaming yet. Future games may change that, but the difference between quad and dual at the same speed is zero or tiny currently.

 

[Blain]

3rd option... Buy an E4400, OC with good cooling on the cheap. :thumbsup::laugh:

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Blain
E6600 now...
You might get hit by a bus in a month.
Q6600 = More Heat :laugh:

Thanks for the link. So it looks like no major improvement over the dual core version for gaming, and significantly more power and heat. Makes my decision a lot easier .

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: Blain
E6600 now...
You might get hit by a bus in a month.
Q6600 = More Heat :laugh:

Thanks for the link. So it looks like no major improvement over the dual core version for gaming, and significantly more power and heat. Makes my decision a lot easier .

Yea, in fact, there is actually zero improvement - the only reason the quad is leading in those benchmarks is they clocked it up an extra 270Mhz over the dual. I expect if there was a single core conroe at the same speed it would score the same.

 

[swtethan]

yeah buy the dual core, more quads for me!

 

[Kromis]

How is this related to video? Unless you are talking about bottle-necks and such...

Anyways, I went with a E4300 and I plan to upgrade to quad later on

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Blain
3rd option... Buy an E4400, OC with good cooling on the cheap. :thumbsup::laugh:

I've seen widely varying success with OC'ing the 4300/4400 to 3.2 and higher. Are they reliably doing it (with OEM air fans) reliably now?

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: Kromis
How is this related to video? Unless you are talking about bottle-necks and such...

Anyways, I went with a E4300 and I plan to upgrade to quad later on

I did post this in General Hardware. If I hit Back on Firefox, I can see this post when it was still in General Hardware instead of Video. No idea why it was moved. Maybe the powers-that-be read the title as R600 or 6600GT instead of E6600?

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: AmberClad

Originally posted by: Kromis
How is this related to video? Unless you are talking about bottle-necks and such...

Anyways, I went with a E4300 and I plan to upgrade to quad later on

I did post this in General Hardware. If I hit Back on Firefox, I can see this post when it was still in General Hardware instead of Video. No idea why it was moved. Maybe the powers-that-be read the title as R600 or 6600GT instead of E6600?

Lol. "Powers-that-be"

 

[defiantsf]

Originally posted by: swtethan
yeah buy the dual core, more quads for me!

Swtethan, I'd wait til the street confirms the shipment and widespread availability of the G0 stepping first. 10W reduction gotta help OC'ing a little bit. We can afford to wait with our OC'ed Conroe.

 

[yacoub]

definitely hook up some dualcore action now. quadcore is mostly pointless for most folks over dualcore.