Q6600 or Q9550?

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:14

Q6600 or Q9550?

£100 difference.. Which one you guys reckon?

OcUK guarantees oc to 3.30ghz for the Q6600, but how far will the Q9550 go?

MikeHiow · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:25

The Q6600 is definitely more "bang for buck". Many Q6600's will go beyond 3.3ghz, mine will hit 3.8 stable, however I run it at 3.3 for more sensible voltage/temps.

The Q9550 should hit 4GHz afaik, but for nearly double the price, I just don't think it's worth it.

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:31

MikeHiow said:
The Q6600 is definitely more "bang for buck". Many Q6600's will go beyond 3.3ghz, mine will hit 3.8 stable, however I run it at 3.3 for more sensible voltage/temps.

The Q9550 should hit 4GHz afaik, but for nearly double the price, I just don't think it's worth it.

Yeah, more bang for you buck, but 4Ghz gives me chillzzzz

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I'm getting a 4870X2 and when playing Crysis I don't want to be thinking "Should have gone for the Q9550"

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:33

It's also 12MB cache opposed to 6MB, any idea how that makes a difference?

MikeHiow · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:33

Hrm, gaming wise, I don't think you'll see much, if any difference between 3.3 and 4ghz, tbh.

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:42

Haven't found many convincing overclocking results for the Q9550 so far really.. Hmmm... Slowly starting to lean towards Q6600 again

MikeHiow · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:45

It makes sense

Matrix · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:55

Adamczyk said:
It's also 12MB cache opposed to 6MB, any idea how that makes a difference?

Will that only make a difference? when video encoding oh won't you notice that much?

redballoon · 19 Sep 2008 at 00:58

Typo? The Q6600 has 8MB cache.

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 01:02

redballoon said:
Typo? The Q6600 has 8MB cache.

My bad

ukbrainstew · 19 Sep 2008 at 01:13

What are you using it for? If its gaming bear in mind you want see any noticeable real world gains past 3ghz as by then the GPU is the bottleneck in 95% of setups. If you do a lot of encoding or 3D modelling or some such, then by all means go for it, but otherwise, you shouldn't notice much outside of a bigger E-penis.

Ben M · 19 Sep 2008 at 08:03

Q6600

And don't waste money on a guaranteed overclock chip.

1kiwi · 19 Sep 2008 at 08:24

Adamczyk said:
Haven't found many convincing overclocking results for the Q9550 so far really.. Hmmm... Slowly starting to lean towards Q6600 again

The new Q6600's are supposed to be poor clockers - gone are the days of 3.6Ghz + clocks.

Stonedofmoo · 19 Sep 2008 at 08:26

Yeah tbh 3.1Gig has been the most I've seen out of the last 2 Q6600's

Buy second hand if one is available...

Pneumonic · 19 Sep 2008 at 09:32

Would imagine with i7 comming up that a lot of Q6600 will come onto the market (I know I am going to sell soon).. you can get a Q6600 for around £90ish (depending on quality) on the MM..

If your thinking for a Q6600 would go 2nd hand and buy yourself a clocker.. rather than buying new..

Kelt · 19 Sep 2008 at 09:37

Stonedofmoo said:
Yeah tbh 3.1Gig has been the most I've seen out of the last 2 Q6600's

Buy second hand if one is available...

Good advice, got mine from MM and it turned out to be a corker!

Adamczyk · 19 Sep 2008 at 09:47

Lol, just searched on eBay for Q6600, the sellers are so full of it, almost all the results show "Intel Q6600 9.6GHz"! Lol...

sambo_joseph · 19 Sep 2008 at 11:18

Ben M said:
Q6600

And don't waste money on a guaranteed overclock chip.

He's right, they are a complete waste (sorry Gibbo). If you are going to get a Q6600 then just make sure you get the G0 stepping chip and overclock it to kingdom come.

As I MAY have prevented a sale there I will try make it up to OcUk by recommending this fine product:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...1&name=Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

I have one with my Q6600 and get extremely low temps for the price.

Ben M · 19 Sep 2008 at 12:07

sambo_joseph said:
He's right, they are a complete waste (sorry Gibbo). If you are going to get a Q6600 then just make sure you get the G0 stepping chip and overclock it to kingdom come.

As I MAY have prevented a sale there I will try make it up to OcUk by recommending this fine product:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...1&name=Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

I have one with my Q6600 and get extremely low temps for the price.

I'm sure Gibbo isn't bothered, everytime anyone buys a guaranteed clock chip they are laughing all the way to the bank.

Admiral Huddy · 19 Sep 2008 at 12:09

I love my Q6600 chip. Currently running mine at 3.8GHz withthe aid of watercooling

It's a steal really.. and certainly one of the best CPUs ever for it's overclocking and price..