E6600 to a Q6600?

[keogh]

Howdy,

I'm sure this question has been asked on here somewhere, but I can't find it and I want my own advice anyway, I'm selfish like that

I have a E6600 at the mo, running at 3.4ghz and as stable as a table! But I see that OcUK have the Q6600 on deal this week, so I was thinking bout grabbing one of those plus another 2gb of GeIL RAM, to make it 4gb.

But is it worth me swapping the E6600 for a "Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 'Energy Efficient 95W Edition'"? Or would I not see much preformance gain? I'm mainly doing this for Gaming, but I use my PC everyday for my job, and have Photoshop open a lot, and thats quite a hungry little begger!

So worth it? Or not bother, and wait til the Extremes come down in price?

p.s. Another question whilst I'm here, will my mobo run this CPU fine (in sig)? It supports quad core CPUS (thats why I bought it for future proof)?

ta

 

[Duke]

The best thing to do is to open up task manager, and see how much usage the CPU is getting at the moment when using it for Photoshop.

Your Asus board does support Core 2 Quad. I would also flash the BIOS to latest if you do change (do it before swapping).

 

[ergonomics]

i have almost identical set up, and went from an E6600 to Q6600.

i have the p5ne-sli and it does support the Q6600 fine, also, i use photoshop a fair bit, and it does make use of 4 cores (as far as i know) i have mine running at 2.7ghz, and its going fine at that speed for the work i do.

 

[keogh]

Did you notice a difference from the E to the Q?