Can't decide x.x

[Milz]

Its a toss up between a Q6600 and a E6750. I want to overclock which ever CPU I get, I've been informed the Exx50 range isnt brilliant at overclocking. Anyway My reasons for wanting the E6750 would be that its cheaper than the Q6600, it performs the same in Games compared to the Q6600, and It would still be a vast improvement from the AMD Opteron 146 I'm currently using. Also more to the point, it can "tide me over" until Intel bring out their Native quad core chips.

So not only would I like opinions, I would also like to know the overclockability of each.

Thanks in advance

 

[melbourne720]

Quad. If you're going dual core, then get a e2160 and save yourself a ton.

 

[easyrider]

Quad. If you're going dual core, then get a e2160 and save yourself a ton.

Agreed,

my 2160 overclocked to 3.6ghz

cost 50 quid.

At this speed forget the cache.

either that or the quad.

anything else in this price range is redundant imo.

 

[Milz]

I think I might do that, and wait for the New intel chip range? Is that the safe option

I just want to make sure I am going to notice a nice performance boost going from my DDR1 Amd Opteron 2.5GHz setup >_>, and making it slightly future proof.

 

[Biffa]

If you want slightly future proof, get a P35 motherboard, a cheap Core2Duo as suggested and clock it to heaven. Then wait till the faster cooler Core2Quads come out next year and they will just pop in no problem.

 

[Milz]

If you want slightly future proof, get a P35 motherboard, a cheap Core2Duo as suggested and clock it to heaven. Then wait till the faster cooler Core2Quads come out next year and they will just pop in no problem.

I am intending on getting the gigabyte P35C DS3. With 2GB G.Skill ram. Now I've looked at some CPU prices and for £20 more it would be the E4400 for 2mb cache, is it not worth it? Is the lack of L2 cache going to affect my gaming FPS, my graphics card is a 7800GT.

 

[truebluecfc]

Melbourne did a comparison between a E2140 with 1MB Cache and a E6600 with 4MB Cache and the Game results showed about a 2-3 FPS difference so i would save the money and get a E2160.

Might also want to buy a cheap aftermarket cpu cooler to go along with it, a cheap budget option is a ACF 7 Pro
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-017-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821