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AMD 32nm

Q6600 is a quality chip, fast enough and overclocks far enough that it won't become a bottle neck for a good year or more, at least. Frankly we won't be needing anything faster for gaming in until we start seeing octo cores, with new pretty seriously faster architectures from AMD and Intel. Obviously if you do something more intensive than gaming/general desktop use, you might want to upgrade, value wise you'd want to go I5 somewhere, or even a 6 core AMD (depending where they actually price them, sub £200 they'll be very very powerful for the money). But realistically, I'd hang on till Bulldozer and, whatever Intel's next bump up is.

The 6 cores are certainly going to be AM3, so your friend has a nice upgrade path there for the future, and frankly you can get some pretty cheap quads from them now that should overclock quite a bit higher than his current 9500, aswell as being faster clock for clock. Again, if he's gaming the wait for a 6 core probably isn't worth it. I'd expect the current top quads to remain £125-150, and the 6 cores to be anywhere from £200-250 and frankly for gaming, a 6 core won't offer anything over a 4 core anyway at this stage. So he may aswell just get a better quad now if he wants/needs the speed.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Q6600 is a quality chip, fast enough and overclocks far enough that it won't become a bottle neck for a good year or more, at least. Frankly we won't be needing anything faster for gaming in until we start seeing octo cores, with new pretty seriously faster architectures from AMD and Intel. Obviously if you do something more intensive than gaming/general desktop use, you might want to upgrade, value wise you'd want to go I5 somewhere, or even a 6 core AMD (depending where they actually price them, sub £200 they'll be very very powerful for the money). But realistically, I'd hang on till Bulldozer and, whatever Intel's next bump up is.

The 6 cores are certainly going to be AM3, so your friend has a nice upgrade path there for the future, and frankly you can get some pretty cheap quads from them now that should overclock quite a bit higher than his current 9500, aswell as being faster clock for clock. Again, if he's gaming the wait for a 6 core probably isn't worth it. I'd expect the current top quads to remain £125-150, and the 6 cores to be anywhere from £200-250 and frankly for gaming, a 6 core won't offer anything over a 4 core anyway at this stage. So he may aswell just get a better quad now if he wants/needs the speed.
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i think i'll probs just stick with my quad until an oct comes out... i dont really game anymore, stopped that a few years back like after HL2 and Doom 3 lol... me and him are well into our CS4 apps so we like all the cores we can get :) he'll love that 6-core thing!
 
After reading all of this, I think I'll hold on to my q6700 for a year or two, Wait until a worthy architecture comes out that can actually justify a whole upgrade.
 
last thing i heard they where going 32nm at GloFo in 2011 when the new cores comes, the new 6 core Thuban is a overclocked six-core opteron for AM3 socket basicly

GlobalFoundries makes AMD CPUs
TSMC makes AMD GPUs and Chipsets

:rolleyes:
 
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