Q6600 or Q9300

[Budmantom]

I'm buying a new rig and I'm not sure if I should go with the 6600 or 9300, I guess the 9300 is "newer" and uses less power?

Is it a no brainer going with the 9300 if I'm not OC'ing and price is about the same?


BTW should I see a big difference with the 9300 and 6gb compared to my older rig with a P4 @ 3.8ghz & 3gb(assuming the rest of the components are the same)?



Thanks,

Tom

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Budmantom
Is it a no brainer going with the 9300 if I'm not OC'ing and price is about the same?

IMHO, yep. Go with the newer technology.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

go with whatever offers you better performance/dollar at what you will use the cpu for?
what do you plan to do with the cpu?

 

[haffey]

I had the same dillema but I went the Q9300 route. I love it, but I didn't get as high as I expected to (from 2.5GHz to 3.3GHz. from there I was getting a few errors so I tuned it back to 3.2GHz and it's been great). So much better than my old X2 4200+ though.

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
go with whatever offers you better performance/dollar at what you will use the cpu for?
what do you plan to do with the cpu?

The most demanding application will be Nascar Racing 2003 series even though it's an older sim but it can still bog my rig down(btw it can utilize at least 2 cores).

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: haffey
I had the same dillema but I went the Q9300 route. I love it, but I didn't get as high as I expected to (from 2.5GHz to 3.3GHz. from there I was getting a few errors so I tuned it back to 3.2GHz and it's been great). So much better than my old X2 4200+ though.

Did you see a big difference going from the 4200 to the 9300 @ stock speed?

 

[Loreena]

SSE4 makes all the diff if you apps (encoding) use it! Go for the 9300!

 

[Mech0z]

Tbh unless you know yoru going to be doing some multithreaded apps then get a higher clocked duel core.

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: Mech0z
Tbh unless you know yoru going to be doing some multithreaded apps then get a higher clocked duel core.

NR2003 is a multithread(2) app but I am rather concerned how the 9300 will measure up on the singlethread(?) apps to my p4 3.8ghz.


The best "deals" were on core 2 clocked @ 2.66ghz so I went with the quads...

 

[haffey]

Originally posted by: Budmantom

Originally posted by: haffey
I had the same dillema but I went the Q9300 route. I love it, but I didn't get as high as I expected to (from 2.5GHz to 3.3GHz. from there I was getting a few errors so I tuned it back to 3.2GHz and it's been great). So much better than my old X2 4200+ though.

Did you see a big difference going from the 4200 to the 9300 @ stock speed?

More than big, it was monumental. It was also a fresh Vista x64 install vs. a XP Pro install, a P5E vs a A8N-32SLI Deluxe, and DDR2 1066MHz RAM over DDR 400MHz RAM, but yeah, it was huge.