E6750 or Q6600

[Bradtechonline]

Well, I'm upgrading and going Intel route. I am torn between the E6750 or Q6600. Going to be running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Any recommendations on which would be the best route to go. Will be gaming 90% of the time, and other usage for basic computing.

 

[BuGG]

Anyone who tells you to go with the q6600 to future proof needs to get there head examined. There is no such thing as future proofing in this fast paced hardware world. A few games utilize 4 cores I think its like 4 games in the coming months. The q6600 runs hotter and is not really a 4 core proc. Its 2 dual cores on the same chip. The fps battle between them are so close it not even a factor. On some games the e6750 is faster and some its slower. They both overclock well. Its really a crapshoot. Only advantage is doing multiple things at one time. For the most point those other cores are not really gonna be used. Flip a coin...

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Bradtechonline
Any recommendations on which would be the best route to go. Will be gaming 90% of the time, and other usage for basic computing.

E6750

 

[n7]

Q6600.

This is coming from someone who sees no real need for quads right now, but overall, it makes sense if you're keeping it for a year or two.

If you want to heavily OC & save some money, or upgrade all the time, a good dual core is fine obviously, as there's still very few applications that truely benefit from multi-core CPUs.

 

[Penth]

Q6600

I got an X2 a couple years ago and I don't have any plans to upgrade for a while. I guarantee if I would have got a CPU with half the cores of the one I was considering (and ended up with) that I'd have already had to upgrade or would be doing it soon.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Bradtechonline
Any recommendations on which would be the best route to go. Will be gaming 90% of the time, and other usage for basic computing.

E6750

 

[Dahak]

I was debating between the E6850 and the Q6600 as well, and I ended up going with the E6850 myself, didn't really want to overclock.
Fast, quite with retail cooler, been running it for the weekend, really happy with it

 

[gtsing]

Seriously, how many of these goddamn threads are there? If you went back a couple pages of threads you'd probably see at least 5 properly answered.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: gtsing
Seriously, how many of these goddamn threads are there? If you went back a couple pages of threads you'd probably see at least 5 properly answered.

Welcome to the AT forums.
The forums are like a RAID array... Redundant :laugh:

Just when you think there are enough threads for... "Help me pick my parts"... "RAID or a single drive" or "Which PS should I get"... Here come more of them!

 

[bendixG15]

It's all about re-inventing the wheel ......

 

[LightningRider]

Originally posted by: BuGG
Anyone who tells you to go with the q6600 to future proof needs to get there head examined. There is no such thing as future proofing in this fast paced hardware world. A few games utilize 4 cores I think its like 4 games in the coming months. The q6600 runs hotter and is not really a 4 core proc. Its 2 dual cores on the same chip. The fps battle between them are so close it not even a factor. On some games the e6750 is faster and some its slower. They both overclock well. Its really a crapshoot. Only advantage is doing multiple things at one time. For the most point those other cores are not really gonna be used. Flip a coin...

Who cares if it's not a 'true' quad core. It has 4 cores who cares how you pack it together?

I say Q6600, my friend has one, extremely fast chip.

 

[fredhe12]

e6750 as others have said.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: gtsing
Seriously, how many of these goddamn threads are there? If you went back a couple pages of threads you'd probably see at least 5 properly answered.

Welcome to the AT forums.
The forums are like a RAID array... Redundant :laugh:

Just when you think there are enough threads for... "Help me pick my parts"... "RAID or a single drive" or "Which PS should I get"... Here come more of them!

LMAO and QFT!!! :thumbsup:

 

[bryanW1995]

e6750. buy a Q9450 in Q1 08 if you decide that you must have quad core, you'll be able to sell your e6750 for a small loss.

 

[jkresh]

q6600, for most games you won't notice it now but there are a few coming in the next 6months to a year where it should make a difference and if you have bit-torrent or antivirus or anything somewhat intensive running in the background then the extra cores will be useful.

 

[JackBurton]

Get the Q6600 and one of these and you should be good for at least a 3.0GHz overclock with good temps. Done! And at $266, you have to be crazy NOT to get it.