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E6600 to Q6600. Worth it?

Dyson

Dyson

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I have an E6600 at the moment at 3.25Ghz, is it worth getting the Q6600?

Anyone made this move at all, and if so do you regret it?

With hl2 going multi core, anyone know if crysis, and all are going same way? If not, I suppose its not worth it.
 
i had a look at doing this but at the moment it seems a waste as nothing is calibrated to take advantage of the 4 cores. Keep the current cpu until new software etc come out.
 
I'm thinking of upgrading my E4300 to one, but I can't help but think that in real world terms that I won't notice much difference.
 
Well it's probably the best we'd be able to get on our boards, all the new chips are coming out with different sockets aren't they?
 
Exactly! Whats the next one, Penryn?? Dont know if that'll fit, so this might be it, although the 680 boards support 1333 fsb.
 
Penryn will be socket 775 but you will need a board that can cope with 1333fsb and 45nm chips!
 
I made the move from the E6600 to the Q6600 G0 and don't regret it.

1) It clocks way better than my e6600 did
2) Runs a lot cooler
3) Windows feels a lot quicker
4) Encoding dvd to divx is unbelievable

I can't say much on the games, because I don't play any, but the whole computer seems quicker, and multi tasking is a pleasure with the quad.
 
K, thanks for help. Think i'll leave it a bit, see what happens with new games. Just in the mood for buying something new :D
 
Same here, games, games and more games. Downloading, ripping and burning too. I imagine the boost from a E4300 to a Q6600 should be worthwhile?
 
Haven't bothered making the jump to quad core myself, a fast dual core, even an overclocked E2xxx or E4xxx is more than enough for all the current games out there. Wouldn't do anything for me but increase my heat output and up my electricity bill a tiny bit.
 
you wont notice much difference really....but hey...its a Quad!

Most of the DX10 games out and coming out are now making use of Quad CPU's...so if its serious gaming system..then Id say yes. And they arent expensive now!
 
For anything working with media most encoding, rendering, etc. tools now are available with multi core support and make good use of those cores and would make it worth it...

For gaming tho at the moment even the games that do make use of multiple cores only really make light use of the last 2 cores so you aren't going to see a huge advantage... yet...

Personally I'm very happy with my CPU for gaming - my GPU is by far the weaker point than my E6600 @ 3.6gig is... most games don't even come close to making it sweat.
 
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