E6600 to Q6600 a good idea?

CaptainFail! · 21 Mar 2010 at 22:57

Good evening to you all! :cool:

At the moment I'm thinking about swapping my E6600 for a Q6600 to give me a bit of a performance boost and to make my current setup last just that little bit longer, maybe another year or so because I'm not looking to fully upgrade until 8 cores or something is the usual. My E6600 is at 3.5Ghz at the moment but I'm just starting to wonder if it's starting to hold me back performance wise with newer game titles and using Adobe software mostly.

I use things such as Adobe Fireworks/Flash/Dreamweaver and Photoshop and also rip quite a lot of DVDs! So i'm just wondering if you lot think it would be beneficial to me? Thanks for any help

SlugForAButt · 21 Mar 2010 at 23:05

If you decide to go Q6600 I'll take your E6600 off your hands.

Mak3R · 22 Mar 2010 at 01:23

Quad > Duel.

mame · 22 Mar 2010 at 01:29

Mak3R said:
Quad > Duel.

DUAL.

Duel is where they get the guns out

SlugForAButt · 22 Mar 2010 at 01:34

Mak3R said:
Quad > Duel.

Firstly, spell "dual" correctly!

Secondly, that's not what he asked!

Thirdly, that's not true at all if you look at some of the new gen dualies (I3 anyone?).

Anyways, what do you use your PC for? That has a large bearing on your requirements.

zo1d · 22 Mar 2010 at 09:32

How much is going to cost you to move from the E6600 to the quad?

Redmint · 22 Mar 2010 at 13:06

SlugForAButt said:
Thirdly, that's not true at all if you look at some of the new gen dualies (I3 anyone?).

Well yes but you have to compare within the same generation and for most applications i5 750 > i3, so quad still > dual really.

Columbo · 22 Mar 2010 at 13:16

I'd say do it and do it now before the Q6600 becomes something of a rarity and demand actually increases because no more are being produced.

Which in turn will drive prices up....exactly the same happened with the s939 4800+ x2 and 4600+ x2 a while back. Some ended up selling for absolutely stupid money.

Redmint · 22 Mar 2010 at 13:28

I don't think the situation will be quite as serious with the Q6600s as they were so damn popular at the time that there's 1,000s floating around, I think the 939 dual cores didn't sell as many as they moved on to AM2 shortly after? Although you could be right ofc and the prices for Q6600s aren't that bad currently considering their overclockability and performance.

CaptainFail! · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:24

zo1d said:
How much is going to cost you to move from the E6600 to the quad?

Well at a guess I'd probably say my E6600 is worth about £35-40, and buying a quad would cost me £75-90 so overall it wouldn't cost too much, not sure if my motherboard (Gigabyte P965-S3) would be able to give me a decent overclock though, I'd want at least 3.2Ghz from a quad you see :confused:

CaptainFail! · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:25

SlugForAButt said:
Firstly, spell "dual" correctly!

Secondly, that's not what he asked!

Thirdly, that's not true at all if you look at some of the new gen dualies (I3 anyone?).

Anyways, what do you use your PC for? That has a large bearing on your requirements.

I use it for gaming, music listening/browsing the internet, DVD ripping, using Adobe software and some music recording now and again.

1337z0r · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:33

Upgraded from a E6300 @ 2.8Ghz to a Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz and its a very nice performance boost

.

Redmint · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:31

The xbitlabs review on your mobo seems to suggest it can get to seriously high FSB speeds and there's a post on the tomshardware forum from someone who's got their Q6600 running at 3GHz on the same board.

Guest2 · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:36

Redmint said:
The xbitlabs review on your mobo seems to suggest it can get to seriously high FSB speeds and there's a post on the tomshardware forum from someone who's got their Q6600 running at 3GHz on the same board.

3ghz is easy. 3.6 is harder

I am running 400 x 9 at the moment but im sure i could run 6 x 600 on my p45 board. Not worth the effort trying through is it?

Redmint · 22 Mar 2010 at 16:40

Well he's aiming for at least 3.2GHz and from what I've seen it should be doable.

CaptainFail! · 22 Mar 2010 at 17:12

Redmint said:
Well he's aiming for at least 3.2GHz and from what I've seen it should be doable.

I've just had a quick read of some reviews of my motherboard and the majority said it can easily handle at least 450FSB, you guys think I'd be able to get a quad up to 3.5Ghz? At the moment I'm at 389FSB with the E6600, so the Q6600 has a x9 multiplier like my current CPU right? so in theory it should be able to handle it. I also remember reading a while back that the G0 stepping Q6600 was the one to go for?

I've been out of the loop for a while!

SlugForAButt · 23 Mar 2010 at 02:47

1337z0r said:
Upgraded from a E6300 @ 2.8Ghz to a Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz and its a very nice performance boost .

I should hope so!

Forget the cores, you've gone from 2.8 to 3.6. That's a big jump in raw horsepower irrespective of cores. :rolleyes:

But I'm not convinced I'd see much difference going from my 4Ghz dualy to a 3.6Ghz quad. Whaddya think 1337z0r?

EDIT: Why do you state your Q6600 oc but only state your E6300 stock? Anyone else think this is a little disingenuous?

Maybe you just couldn't get your 6300 past stock 2.8? (although I think my cat could do that)

Big.Wayne · 23 Mar 2010 at 03:22

I believe 1337z0r may be Old-Skool and was referring to the original E6300

C64 · 23 Mar 2010 at 17:56

ManCuBuS said:
I'd say do it and do it now before the Q6600 becomes something of a rarity and demand actually increases because no more are being produced.

Which in turn will drive prices up....exactly the same happened with the s939 4800+ x2 and 4600+ x2 a while back. Some ended up selling for absolutely stupid money.

Not going to happen when core i3 / Amd remains so affordable I can only see the q6600 price coming down even further.

I have seen 95w go for £65 here recently and I wouldn't be paying anything over that for one.

People just aren't going to pay £85-£100 for old tech much longer you are getting in to quad core i5 territory near £100.

You'd get £55 for your ddr2 ( thats a dead cert) and £15-£50 for 965/p35/p45 and £20-£70 for a 775 dual so why people are still willing to pay £85 + for a q6600 is beyond me.

Would make more sense to sell up and move to Amd or core i3/5/7 I'd rather have a core i3 system than a 775 q6600 based system that's for sure even if it were slightly slower.

So if you want to throw £85 + at a q6600 you may as well sell it all up and you'll be shelling out about £60 ish more to get a core i3 setup.

Even though you can sell your dual core to bring the cost of the q6600 down I'd still rather save for £60 ish extra and get core i3.

What would you rather do shell out £50-£60 for a q6600 or shell out £100-£120 after sales from your current hardware for a new board ddr3 and core i3 chip ? know which I'd rather do.Especially when your motherboard and dual core resale value is only going to get worse and worse not to mention the inevitable 2x2gb ddr2 price drop.

So I advise anyone not to upgrade a 775 to a q6600 unless it's £60-£65 just go for corei3 minimum whilst the price of ddr2 second hand is at a high.

Have to admit I almost got suckered in myself looking at replacing my 6420 with a q6600 but I did the sums and figured I'd be better off going corei3
I'd get a q6600 if it were going dirt cheap though like £50-£60.

CaptainFail! · 23 Mar 2010 at 18:52

C64 said:
Not going to happen when core i3 / Amd remains so affordable I can only see the q6600 price coming down even further.

I have seen 95w go for £65 here recently and I wouldn't be paying anything over that for one.

People just aren't going to pay £85-£100 for old tech much longer you are getting in to quad core i5 territory near £100.

You'd get £55 for your ddr2 ( thats a dead cert) and £15-£50 for 965/p35/p45 and £20-£70 for a 775 dual so why people are still willing to pay £85 + for a q6600 is beyond me.

Would make more sense to sell up and move to Amd or core i3/5/7 I'd rather have a core i3 system than a 775 q6600 based system that's for sure even if it were slightly slower.

So if you want to throw £85 + at a q6600 you may as well sell it all up and you'll be shelling out about £60 ish more to get a core i3 setup.

Even though you can sell your dual core to bring the cost of the q6600 down I'd still rather save for £60 ish extra and get core i3.

What would you rather do shell out £50-£60 for a q6600 or shell out £100-£120 after sales from your current hardware for a new board ddr3 and core i3 chip ? know which I'd rather do.Especially when your motherboard and dual core resale value is only going to get worse and worse not to mention the inevitable 2x2gb ddr2 price drop.

So I advise anyone not to upgrade a 775 to a q6600 unless it's £60-£65 just go for corei3 minimum whilst the price of ddr2 second hand is at a high.

Have to admit I almost got suckered in myself looking at replacing my 6420 with a q6600 but I did the sums and figured I'd be better off going corei3
I'd get a q6600 if it were going dirt cheap though like £50-£60.

I can see where you're coming from, but personally I don't fancy shelling out even more cash and then selling my current setup and getting hammered by fees for advertising my current hardware to then see 6-8 core CPU's come out and I'm left with an i3 setup that's a few months old and then to be left feeling disappointed with a puny i3. I wouldn't be satisfied with upgrading to another dual core basically.

I'd rather keep my current system for a little longer and add a quad and then in about another years time upgrade to a completely new socket and if/when 6-8 core CPU's become the standard.