Which system to use?

[shinji666]

I haven't kept up with the new CPU nowadays... I have a choice between two systems laying around and just wondering which one performs better overall?

Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz
965P-DS3

vs

AMD X4 620 @ 3.4Ghz
785GM-US2H

 

[Rhoxed]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=106&p2=53&c=1

the AMD seems to win at stock, and thats 200mhz diff, with 3 and 3.4 the AMD should have the clear win, although not enough to notice really.

 

[pitz]

Its really going to depend on drives and amount of RAM installed.

CPU is such an unimportant part of the overall 'system' these days.

 

[Darthvan]

Q6600, any day of the week. AMD might have the numbers,but Intel kicks AMD in the butt when it comes down to pure computing power


P.S. wait for it...................wait for it......................Here comes AMD's fan club,lol

 

[BD231]

Edit: Both are quad cores my bad, uhh, in this case I wouldn't care which one I had. Darthvan, I think you were trying to post that VVV somewhere else. I'd never recommend a dual to someone when there are six core parts coming into the market.

 

[Darthvan]

BD231, It has been talked about in lengths. 2 cores for gaming are much better and practical than 4 cores ,unless you look at the cache onboard. most of games today require 2 cores,and none that I know of need all 4 cores to play them. so save yourself some dough,and spend it on a better videocard or a better mobo to run with.

 

[Chappie]

Bad Company 2 really runs much better on a quad core machine.

 

[tweakboy]

I say whichever lets you OC more. gl

 

[klocwerk]

way too many other variables.
Fire them both up, run a few benchmarks, and go with the better performer.

 

[InfoTiger]

I'd say picking a newer combo <AMD>.

 

[Shmee]

I would say it depends how well the Q6600 OC's If you get a really good G0, keep it. Take it to 3.6 if you can GL. Mine can do it, but the temps were too high for current cooler. And mine isnt the best one out there (VID =1.25, pretty good.)

I do not know the OC limits of the 620 though.

 

[Arkaign]

Welcome to AT, OP!

Hard to say, the Athlon II X4 is missing the L3 cache, so it does take a hit compared to the better Phenom II X4.

One thing though, that P965 mobo is ancient, that is the oldest chipset that can run Q6000s, and 3ghz is probably the ceiling. A Q6600 on a P45, it would be no contest, as I'd take the 8mb L2 Q6600 @ 3.2ghz well above a 3.4Ghz Athlon X4.

If you have them both (and own them), I'd honestly sell them both + whatever ram/parts you have lying around, and get a 955BE or i5 system built. Put together, you should easily be able to raise that amount of $ from both of those setups.

 

[Shmee]

Welcome to AT, OP!

Hard to say, the Athlon II X4 is missing the L3 cache, so it does take a hit compared to the better Phenom II X4.

One thing though, that P965 mobo is ancient, that is the oldest chipset that can run Q6000s, and 3ghz is probably the ceiling. A Q6600 on a P45, it would be no contest, as I'd take the 8mb L2 Q6600 @ 3.2ghz well above a 3.4Ghz Athlon X4.

If you have them both (and own them), I'd honestly sell them both + whatever ram/parts you have lying around, and get a 955BE or i5 system built. Put together, you should easily be able to raise that amount of $ from both of those setups.

Ah yes, the Q6600 has lots of cache too.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Pretty nice systems to have laying around. If they were mine I'd probably go for the Q6600, because of the mobo support on the other box.

 

[StrangerGuy]

BD231, It has been talked about in lengths. 2 cores for gaming are much better and practical than 4 cores ,unless you look at the cache onboard. most of games today require 2 cores,and none that I know of need all 4 cores to play them. so save yourself some dough,and spend it on a better videocard or a better mobo to run with.

This reminds me of the great debate in the A64 X2 vs A64 single core days. Back then dual-cores have very real advantages even if you were a gamer yet so many decided to have a slightly higher clocked single core, so that they can have a few more useless fps above the 60Hz vsync limit and saying goodbye to playable framerates if they are actually running like apps an AV in the background, because single core "are best for gaming".