-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
Q6600 vs i3/i5/i7
- Thread starter coughs
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 13 Jan 2010
- Posts
- 6,354
- Location
- Manchester
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_processors
main differences bus speed, cache, turbo speed, socket and fabrication.
andy.
main differences bus speed, cache, turbo speed, socket and fabrication.
andy.
Last edited:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/53?vs=47
At the bottom it has some games fps compared between the two cpus.
At the bottom it has some games fps compared between the two cpus.
i7 at 3.4ghz if I'm interpreting your question correctly would be the best choice. Note I said best not most cost effective.
The new chips are most certainly better, but it is very task dependant. I got the upgrade itch a few months ago, but gaming is the most CPU intensive thing I do, and I run pretty much all games maxed out on my q6600 @ 1080 resolution, so an upgrade for me at the moment will look good on paper, but have no practical advantage.
I mean I do some video encoding and stuff, but only on a casual basis, so it doesn't really matter to me if those kinds of jobs take 10 mins or half an hour.
What is the rest of your spec, and what do you use it for?
For gaming, I basicly upgrade when I start having to put more setting than I would like to medium rather than high. My next game I think will be starcraft2 so I'll see how I cope but I would be surprised if I have an issue .
I mean I do some video encoding and stuff, but only on a casual basis, so it doesn't really matter to me if those kinds of jobs take 10 mins or half an hour.
What is the rest of your spec, and what do you use it for?
For gaming, I basicly upgrade when I start having to put more setting than I would like to medium rather than high. My next game I think will be starcraft2 so I'll see how I cope but I would be surprised if I have an issue .
But this should: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2
Frankly, a lot of the time a ~3GHz C2D (or original Quad) is just fine. The improvements over the last three years aren't that big a deal and as mattyfez said, quite task dependent. I have a 3.2GHz E4300, it's three years old and does everything I do just fine.
Some of the core 2's are incredibly good, and even better when overclocking.
My mate bought a second hand mid range one that we ramped up to 2.9ghz for 25 quid.
It runs like a dream, but that said he is on xp 32 bit with dx9.
Maybe to allow for a CPU comparison, low res = GPU not the bottleneck?
Fair point, but wouldn't something like video conversion be a better test, my 7800 series NVIDIA is perfectly good for wow with my old a64 3400, and can run oblivion very well at that res.
they aren't limiting it to game and nothing else