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Core 2 Duo E8400 Vs Core 2 Quad Q6600

Another thing to think about is the fact that with the new graphics cards being released I wonder how much in terms of CPU mhz these new cards will be, people have mentioned that the bottleneck currently with E6850 / Q6600 etc are 3.6ghz, with the new cards can we expect 3.8ghz/4.0ghz?

Will be interesting to see new gaming benchmarks with the 3870X2 & whatever ATI & Nvidia decide to bring out in the next 6 months. . .
 
C64 said:
An 8500 will be worth more on a resale than a q6600 6 months from now i think any loss you incur selling the quad will be made back when you want to sell on the 8500 as opposed to the quad.
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To some people it will have more resale value than the Q6600's due to it being new tech, but to some people the Q6600 will still have higher resale because some people will see it as 4 cores = better.
 
True but can you see the q6600 selling for much more than £100 in 6 months ? I cant but i can see the 8500 going for £140 or more.
 
If the 8500 goes for 140 quid and some people see that in there eyes a Q6600 will go for more but it depends on prices in the shops.
 
JediFragger said:
Dollar has dropped by about 15% lately & affects cpu pricing :(

Hopefully it'll go up a bit soon...
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On Nov 8th it was $2.12/£, now it's $1.95/£

8% swing tops

http://www.x-rates.com/d/USD/GBP/graph120.html

and as I recall Intel's list price for trade or retail hasn't changed at all since launch, so unless a retailer was grey-importing then surely the £/$ shouldn't affect this? Don't retailers have to hold a price for 28 days so they can drop the price later?
 
For people wanting to know about power consumption, this is from a US forum

Power Consumption:
Old system (see sig) @ 3.0GHz (A64 x2 5000+)
CnQ idle: 86W
F@H (50-60% CPU load) 136W

New motherboard/CPU @3.33 GHz (E8400 Gigabyte GA P35 DS3R)
EIST Idle: 74W
F@H (50% cpu load): 89W !!!!!

(2 x 1GB Corsair PC6400 DDR2, HD3870 (859/1300) + Accelero S1, WD 250GB SATA II, Samsung Bk-203 DVD-RAM SATA, SB Audigy2 ZS)
 
I wouldn't touch a q6600 now even if it were £120 brand new retail, by the time games run better on quad the q6600 will be very much surpassed.
Only thing it's good for over these new chips is encoding and certain other niche stuff, and i just cant see many new games on the horizon that will utilize them properly yet.
No idea what the problem is with programming and quad and dual for that matter i guess they are still playing catchup and games being started now maybe will be quad compliant but as we know the good games take years to make.
 
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C64 said:
I wouldn't touch a q6600 now even if it were £120 brand new retail, by the time games run better on quad the q6600 will be very much surpassed.
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You know over the past few days i've changed my mind so many times about this cpu.

But your right and thats whats made me change my mind. It just seems stupid to spend £170 on a q6600, when something here will beat it for £30 less, plus have more memory bandwidth
 
It's Intels way of making everyone revert back to dual core, then in around 7 months time they will release revised dual / quad cores with better prices making penryn quadcore more desireable, then everyone ends up buying a quadcore again.

I reckon same thing will happen like last year & were all sucked in by it.
 
Well going by what they have done we should all wait for the E8*** equivilent of the 2160/2200 as they are bound to release a £50 45nm that hits 5ghz.
 
C64 said:
Well going by what they have done we should all wait for the E8*** equivilent of the 2160/2200 as they are bound to release a £50 45nm that hits 5ghz.
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Surely not? Cant see that myself. Allthough a cheapo penryn would be nice if it can get to 4Ghz.
 
Yea i was being sarcastic but they've done it with the others so probably get a cheap penryn that does 4 - 4.2 ghz no doubt.
 
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