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Poll: Q6600 owners, what did you upgrade/plan to upgrade to?

What did you upgrade to/plan to upgrade to from a Q6600?

  • Penryn

  • Bloomfield

  • Westmere

  • Gulftown

  • Sandy Bridge

  • Ivy Bridge

  • Haswell

  • Don't Know/Not Sure

  • AMD Phenom II

  • AMD Bulldozer

Results are only viewable after voting.
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Smartazz

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I'm interested in seeing how other past and present Q6600 owners feel about the aging chip. I'm planning to replace it when Ivy Bridge comes out, how about other owners?

Edit: Pulled the trigger on a 2500K+Z68. Got a good deal on it that I couldn't pass up. If Ivy Bridge ends up being a lot better, it'll be a simple upgrade anyway.
 
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Well, I'm a Q9400 owner, so I'm not sure I count. But I'm planning to upgrade to Haswell.
 
The Q9400 was the next generation, however I think that its performance was relatively close to the Q6600 so I'd say that counts.
 
Went with a Penryn and haven't seen anything since that warranted an upgrade. I'll probably wait until we see what happens in the industry when mobile SoC makers join the fun.
 
Upgraded both my Q6600 System and my brother's Q9550 system to 2500K sandy systems to take advantage of the resale prices of the core2quads before they dropped big time (eventually it'll have to happen haha). Also built a third 2500k system for good measure / linux fun / future home server box...
 
Upgraded my Q8300 to an i7 2600k

Well worth the upgrade. Also C2D hold their value well so the upgrade didn't cost me much
 
2600k. The Q6600 was still going strong though, I would probably have stayed with it if I didn't get upgrade fever. Now I'm trying to find the old boy a new home 🙂
 
I just did a quick search of used Q6600s and I'm surprised they still fetch so much. I hope I can sell it to cover some of the cost of Ivy Bridge next year.
 
Hell No. Im upgrading nothing. I will only upgrade to SSD :thumbsup: one day when its 5000mbps

Games fly for me and my CPU usage is avg 70 percent playing the best graphical game IMO Crysis 2 all settings ultra, 8xAA 16XAF 1080p vsync on :thumbsup:... 0 input lag.. and for my Composing and Producing Music.

I use Sonar X1c Producer , The projects I do take on avg 45 percent CPU load ,, but this is with like 15 synths , plugins etc.

What do I want to gain by upgrading to a Sandy or Haswell ? Also I am not a SuperPI and benchmark whore, I could care less if it says the Sandy E is 50 percent faster then what I have.

I initially upgraded from a Athlon XP 3200 2.5Ghz in 2007 november to my rig. The reason was I couldnt even open 3 synths ,, it would go to 100 percent CPU usage and I couldn't game with a loley x800 xt pe

So when I saw I can open freakin 20 synths and have the engine running @ 24/192khz and play with 1ms latency ,,, blew me away. Gaming blew me away with the 8800 GT , But now Im in heaven with my setup. NO need to get into hassles when you dont need to.

Now if a guy has a Athlon single core or slow dual or a P4 , then yes upgrade to the latest and greatest,, Im not struggling now so no reason for upgrade 🙂 gl, D:
 
I have a Q6700 in my main home server right now. I think if I was to upgrade, I'd look at Ivy bridge, if not, Sandy Bridge.

Really, the Core2Quad series was really good for it's time. I have a hard time finding something even today that will blow it away. I will probably end up running this for another couple years before I upgrade. I could use faster compile times though. 😀
 
I got a X4 620 which is close to Q6600. I'd wait until Haswell unless Ivy Envy take me over before then, but planning to hold out til then.
 
Q6600 never felt slow to me and never bottlenecked me in a game. I'm only not using it because the USPS smashed the system when I shipped it to my new address. Now using my Alienware M11x r3 as my primary system. 🙁
 
I had a q6600 that I upgraded to a q9550 giving my q6600 to my brother in law, but now I've gone 2500k. However I still have the q9550 and am going to game on it tonight as my ut2k4 isn't set up on my 2500k yet.

So basically this question for me is a year late.
 
It does wonders with DAW. With my Athlon XP 2.5 I could open only 3 synths and CPU usage would shoot to 100 percent and it would crash. Soo I got my rig in 2007 november and when I do a project now, I can have 15 synths open and plugins and its barely at 40 percent CPU usage. That is a big difference compared to my Athlon and P4 people. That was a break through. If you have a good video card OpenGL like PHotoshop and Premiere will be fast still. Ok a Sandy can encode 2 minutes faster... They say Sandy is 50 percent faster,, but until I see the CPU come to its knees,, its fine... the i7 and sandy werent as ground breaking as ,, going from Pentium D to Core 2 series.
 
I use a rig with a q6600 @ 3.2/ 4 gb ddr2/ gf gtx550 ti as my primary gaming pc.

It's still plenty fast.

I might upgrade in a year. It's really strange for me not have the urge every 2 years. But I've been running this rig for 3 years.
 
I just fired-up my q6600 tonight w/ a $40 mb I got from rothchilds and $20 4x1gb DDR2 Buffalo Firestix from Ikarios. Running @ 3.6Ghz presently --still a great chip! 🙂
 
If I had a Q6600 or most any other Core2Quad I would vote don't know. I've still got a Phenom 9850 in my primary rig, and considering I keep it downclocked to 2.0Ghz the majority of the time I see no need to upgrade yet. Clocked at 3.0Ghz it was still handling all my games up until a few months ago when I pulled the dedicated grahpics out of it. I own faster processors, but that's simply because I enjoy building and playing with new hardware, none of it was done out of need.

My next upgrade will either be something very energy efficient like a low end Ivy Bridge because I don't need more performance, or if AMD can get a more energy efficient version of Bulldozer out, that may make a good upgrade simply because I tend to run a lot of programs at once.
 
I upgraded to X6 1055T was a hugre mistake and waste of cash.

Now I'm running 2500K and it's a real noticable upgrade.
 
Still using my Q6600. The only thing I dont like about it is the 100 watts idle power at the wall socket. But I'm not spending $300 just to reduce it from 100 to around 50. lol. But as others have said, the actual cost minus the resale profit would only be $100. Perhaps even less if I waited outside a microcenter on black friday. I must admit it is tempting to upgrade to a 2500k and 8GB of RAM for only $100.
 
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