Advice pls on cpu exchange

[shaneosborne]

Advice pls on cpu exchange.

I currently have an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600

I have been offered to have it replace with the

Intel Quad Core Q6600

Are there any advantages and dissadvantages if I was to complete this exchange and what would you do if you was offered this?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You can trade an E6600 for a Q6600 one-to-one? That's madness! Take it, take it!

It's essentially two E6600s on one die.

 

[Camalot]

If it's a straight exchange i would personally bite their hand off, take it

 

[shaneosborne]

Yup its a straight exchange because they never had any e6600 in stock and due to having it replaced twice before they agreed on exchanging it to this.

They said they had a dodgy batch of CPUs from Intel at the time I ordered, just called my account manager and he has dispatched the new CPU.

Will I notice much of a difference compared to my old e6600?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Games will run at about the same speed since most aren't multithreaded. When running lots of tasks it'll be much faster. Synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark06 will be much improved as well.

 

[Aod]

when properly multithreaded games come out it will be much faster than the E6600 would be

 

[shaneosborne]

Should I now move to vista or should I stay with XP Pro?


This will be my Spec once the new HDD and CPU arrives;

Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
Coolermaster 600w PSU
Samsung SH-S183L 18x Burner Lightscribe SATA Black
Noctua NH-U12F CPU Heatsink and Fan 120mm
2x GeIL 2GB PC6400 800MHz DDR2 DUAL CHANNEL KIT (4x1GB)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB S300 16MB
Retail Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3
Intel Quad Core™ Q6600 2.4GHz
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I'd stick with XP until at least SP1, but you can do as you fancy.