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P4-3.2g Vs 6600 quad core

mdallen

mdallen

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Hiya bit of a newbie question i imagine but here goes

Running a P4-3.2g at mo, now if i move to a 6600 quad (which is just in my 300-350 budget for cpu, memory(4g) and m/b) will it be faster with older games.

I ask this as the 6600 runs at 2.4g, i know its quad core but not sure how quad core works when you running older games (im a obsessed everquest player- who doesnt box) so will EQ run at 2.4g or can windows XP Pro (32bit) or the actual 6600 do some fancy tricks so it will run faster than on a P4 3.2.

I have no real interest in running like 10 programs in background but figured might as well go for a quad when i need to upgrade just in case and to future proof myself for a bit if any new games come out that will support it, cant really see the point in getting a duo core.
Thanks
 
It should be a good bit faster. Possibly not as much quicker as you might think, but certainly faster. It would be 2-3 times faster, but possibly not more than that.
 
2-3 times faster would be totally awesome !

to be honest i wasnt really expecting it to be much faster at all on the things i run at mo like EQ... This upgrade idea is starting to look good !
 
Since you’re still running a p4 I guess you don’t upgrade very often, going with a good value good performing quad would make a lot of sense.

Even without all 4 cores utilised it will still be a huge boost over your old cpu.
 
Not tested any games but I went from a 3.2 641 to a Q6600 and in normal desktop use I'm hard pushed to notice any difference, get the quad video encoding and that's a whole different ball game.
 
Ive started to recode mkv files to vobs so i can watch them on my PS3, that takes hours, would be nice if it speeded that up, if the application doesnt support 4 cores though will it just load 1 to the max ?
 
mdallen said:
Ive started to recode mkv files to vobs so i can watch them on my PS3, that takes hours, would be nice if it speeded that up, if the application doesnt support 4 cores though will it just load 1 to the max ?
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Pretty much any encoding application will use all 4 cores, specially AVC encoders like what your doing (mkv - vob). Youll notice a massive speed increase.
 
Does depend, though the Netburst architecture gets less performance per clock, so roughly a 3.0ghz Netburst would perform like a 2.0ghz Core 2, (analogous to the old AMD64 days of supremacy except these are even faster per clock) So potentially in some tasks could actually be a solid 4x faster, simply due to architecture changes. P4's were good at video/MP3 transcoding though, so other tests would be needed to prove it :D Not only that, I'd bet money a 95W Q6600 is actually cooler on stock temps/volts than a 3.2ghz P4, those things roast!
 
spicypixel said:
Does depend, though the Netburst architecture gets less performance per clock, so roughly a 3.0ghz Netburst would perform like a 2.0ghz Core 2, (analogous to the old AMD64 days of supremacy except these are even faster per clock) So potentially in some tasks could actually be a solid 4x faster, simply due to architecture changes. P4's were good at video/MP3 transcoding though, so other tests would be needed to prove it :D Not only that, I'd bet money a 95W Q6600 is actually cooler on stock temps/volts than a 3.2ghz P4, those things roast!
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Well the TDP for the 641 wa 86 or 65 depending on version so in theory they'd run cooler but they roasted as heatsinks at that time hadn't moved onto mega-size is better :)
 
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