Quad VS Due price ?

BigBruiserAl · 11 Nov 2008 at 14:32

Hi all

After some research and using the search i know that a E8500 is better for gaming then a Q6600, however i can get a Q6600 for £128 new and the E8500 for £139, now the rig is a gaming rig what im asking is, is the cheaper Quad that is more future proof worth getting over E8500, i know the E8500 can clock higher but taking the price and future quad gaming in account which would make more sence, will i lose out in games by going for q6600 or are they close at the same clockspeed say 3.5Ghz?

Games played will the likes of , WOW,WAR, RTS style not a fan of FPS so no need for Crysis chater

Thanks for thoughts

rjk · 11 Nov 2008 at 15:57

q6600 = big electricity bill
E8500 = small electricity bill

both perform similarly in most tasks apart from encoding etc

imo the 8500 would be more than sufficiant for your needs

i only use the full power of my quad for video editing/encoding

pastymuncher · 11 Nov 2008 at 16:07

rjkoneill said:
q6600 = big electricity bill
E8500 = small electricity bill

both perform similarly in most tasks apart from encoding etc

imo the 8500 would be more than sufficiant for your needs

i only use the full power of my quad for video editing/encoding

Summed it up perfectly. The Q6600 is a heat monster when overclocked too. For gaming a E8500 would be better.

phaded · 11 Nov 2008 at 16:45

What about the Q9550 in comparison to the E8500?.

BigBruiserAl · 11 Nov 2008 at 17:10

Cheers guys the bill is not a problem i pay them and im not fussed about them i own a nissan skyline so am used to get royaly turned over in the uk for petrol/electricity

Hmm still a hard choice ,bah might wait until the 45nm Quads come down in price hmmmm

perkele · 11 Nov 2008 at 18:20

Didn't know Nissan had released a dual-powered variant.

gpuerrilla · 11 Nov 2008 at 22:14

Id go dual and clock for around 4ghz.

Van Diemen · 11 Nov 2008 at 22:25

I was in a similar position to you, I ended up getting a Q9550. It's currently clocked to 4Ghz. I think I made the right choice, as I'm not planning on any upgrades besides GPU upgrade until well in to next year.

OCOCOC · 12 Nov 2008 at 04:01

'future-proof' never comes true in the 'future' for current hardwares. there are always better stuffs ahead and just think of now, dude. for gaming, the E8500 is way better than Q6600 and it's even better than a Q9450/9550. so the choice is obvious.

Big.Wayne · 12 Nov 2008 at 04:16

I dunno, the E8400 e0 seems a more obvious choice to me than the E8500! :confused:

But then again you can buy an E5200 for half the price of an E8400!

£55 for a 45nm 2MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3GHz/3.5GHz
£105 for a 45nm 6MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3.5GHz/4.0GHz

I really doubt anyone needs more than that for any task! :cool:

WJA96 · 12 Nov 2008 at 07:05

Big.Wayne said:
I dunno, the E8400 e0 seems a more obvious choice to me than the E8500!

But then again you can buy an E5200 for half the price of an E8400!

£55 for a 45nm 2MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3GHz/3.5GHz

£105 for a 45nm 6MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3.5GHz/4.0GHz

I really doubt anyone needs more than that for any task!

Quoted for truth. E5200 is one heck of a CPU.

BigBruiserAl · 12 Nov 2008 at 11:59

OCOCOC said:
so the choice is obvious.

If it was that obvious there would't 100's of threads asking the same thing all the time

Thanks for the thoughts guys ill think ill wait till xmas and see what price the E8500/E8600 and go with them or wait untill i chnage my mind again for the 100th time

Infam0us · 12 Nov 2008 at 11:59

perkele said:
Didn't know Nissan had released a dual-powered variant.

Heh their new model has increased RAM tbh.

BigBruiserAl · 12 Nov 2008 at 12:02

Infam0us said:
Heh their new model has increased RAM tbh.

O/C on her is great too however is expensive to get her stable on 12v

pastymuncher · 12 Nov 2008 at 14:18

Big.Wayne said:
I dunno, the E8400 e0 seems a more obvious choice to me than the E8500!

But then again you can buy an E5200 for half the price of an E8400!

£55 for a 45nm 2MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3GHz/3.5GHz

£105 for a 45nm 6MB Dual-Core that should easily clock to 3.5GHz/4.0GHz

I really doubt anyone needs more than that for any task!

The E8400 is £135 and the E8500 is £140. E8500 is the more sensible (from here) out of the pair. Mine was a E0 too. Or budget wise, the E5200 is, as you quite rightly say, a fantastic cpu.

Big.Wayne · 12 Nov 2008 at 14:26

pastymuncher said:
The E8400 is £135 and the E8500 is £140. E8500 is the more sensible (from here) out of the pair

Unless the E8500 is produced using superior silicon than the E8400 then I can't see any good reason to spend the extra :confused:

If both silicon is the same then the *lower* natural multi of the E8400 should prove better for high FSB overclocks? . . That is based on information on how the NBCC works which I recently learnt!

phaded · 12 Nov 2008 at 17:29

Big.Wayne said:
Unless the E8500 is produced using superior silicon than the E8400 then I can't see any good reason to spend the extra

If both silicon is the same then the *lower* natural multi of the E8400 should prove better for high FSB overclocks? . . That is based on information on how the NBCC works which I recently learnt!

Basically a fiver for the added .16ghz and .5 extra multi, which is good for a fiver no?.

Lt Goody · 12 Nov 2008 at 17:37

pastymuncher said:
The E8400 is £135 and the E8500 is £140. E8500 is the more sensible (from here) out of the pair. Mine was a E0 too. Or budget wise, the E5200 is, as you quite rightly say, a fantastic cpu.

The E8400 is now £140 and E8500 £165 :eek:

The E8500 has gone up £25 in a day,glad i got my E8400 from here last week.

Glaucus · 12 Nov 2008 at 18:03

As I have said in other threads, don't forget dx11 which is coming out next year. Which has proper support for multicores and we should see games embracing it reasonably fast as it's very similar to dx10 and is backward compatible with dx10 gfx cards.. so if you wont be upgrading for a few years I would say go quad.

pastymuncher · 12 Nov 2008 at 18:45

Lt Goody said:
The E8400 is now £140 and E8500 £165

The E8500 has gone up £25 in a day,glad i got my E8400 from here last week.

Gone up in 5 Hours!! E8200 is £12 more expensive than a faster E8400!! :confused:

The once bargain E5200 is now £67. Ridiculous prices. OCUK needs to get a grip. Other's are not increasing their prices like this.