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E6600 Vs newer cpus ?

Dicehunter

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I have a 2nd machine with an E6600 in it clocked to 3.6ghz on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo and i was wondering, in % how much better is say a E8600 the new E0 stepping ?
 
Depends if its overclocked. Willhub had a E6600 at 3.6 and a ATI 4870 and ran crysis at 27fps average on certain settings. He then got a E8500 i think running at 4GHZ+ and it boosted his average FPS to 32 at the same settings which is very good
 
Would see a small increasae but not a huge amount whatsoever. Will only notice when going to 4Ghz+ with the 8600
 
Well ive just replaced my rig with the one in the sig and i must say, its quite awesome and ive even noticed performance increases
 
Willhub had a E6600 at 3.6 and a ATI 4870 and ran crysis at 27fps average on certain settings. He then got a E8500 i think running at 4GHZ+ and it boosted his average FPS to 32 at the same settings which is very good
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Very good? Sounds a bit poop to me for what, 70 quid?

30 FPS is marginal playability though so I agree that around that range, small FPS boost can count for a lot.
 
my mates e8400 stock is a lot better than my e6600 at 3.15 but thats me
play WAR atm i get 35fps and he gets 60fps+ both with same gfx cards etc
 
3gig E8400 V 3.15gig E6600 is not going to show any noticeable difference in framerate ingames... if thats the only different factor...
 
DF1986 said:
I have a 2nd machine with an E6600 in it clocked to 3.6ghz on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo and i was wondering, in % how much better is say a E8600 the new E0 stepping ?
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Depends what its used for. In games, it'd be nigh on identical, you wouldn't notice any difference unless you used FRAPs.
 
Does this not all depend more on having a decent gpu than the cpu that affects framerates more. As long as you have over 3ghz they should be nearly equal.
 
I'm contemplating replacing my e8400 @ 3.825ghz for an e6600 so long as it'll do 3.2ghz. I accidentally benched crysis at stock (3ghz instead of 3.825ghz) and got NO drop in the final score. So I tried a few times and still got no increase over running at a lower speed.
I don't use the pc for any apps that require a screamingly fast cpu, just the normal day to day stuff and gaming, so going by me findings, its not worth clocking over 3ghz-3.2ghz. I'm gonna try some other stuff to confirm this first though.:)
I just wonder if I still need the the high overclock to enable me to run me two 4870s in Xfire, I read somewhere that this was the case.
 
pieman109 said:
its not worth clocking over 3ghz-3.2ghz.
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I've posted links before showing C2D's cause Gpu bottleneck after 3ghz, even with a 4870x2 :)

If i was the op id just wait for nehalem tbh

lol @ Xez & Stoopidbaz (I see how he got the name now :p)
 
I've just been doing some benching to check me findings and I agree with "tatts" here. In crysis at any rate, there is NO difference in performance with the cpu at 3.2ghz or 3.825ghz, and thats powering 2 x 4870 cards in Xfire. What does make a helluva difference is if Xfire is disabled and running the game/benchy with just the one card, fps drop considerably. Means I'll keep both 4870s but flog me e8400 and get an e6600 that'll clock to 3.2ghz.:)
 
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