E6850 stepping

[musx64]

HI

My Nephew bought a E6850 for gaming & some dvd ripping, also maybe he want's to overclock it !

It say's stepping L725B289 - is this a Good Stepping or should he send it back & get a Quad ? Just as I recommended him before. He's hoping to keep it for a Year or more !

Thanks.

 

[musx64]

he's worried that if he bought a q6600 it would be old hat, since the yorkfields are due out soon, how much of a difference is to be expected with these new quads ?

 

[musx64]

any other opinions

 

[musx64]

If he is going to keep it for a year and overclock I would send it back and get a G0 quad. It will clock as well as the 6850 and have 2 extra cores for the same price.

being a college student on budget, he's more likely to use the stock cooler then water, as for what I have seen already the 6850's are clocking upto 4Ghz on stock volts & cooler, where as the the good stepping Q6600's are hitting upto 3.6-8, on air/water and as I said before, he will be using it mainly for gaming use.

 

[musx64]

Says the person with an E6850.


At the speeds the E6850 clocks upto, you will be GPU limited anyway so it is pointless. Whereas the Quad Core can reach similar speeds, but on 4 cores. Multithreaded applications will benefit from this just a little

And about a Q6600 being old hat...why isn't he worried about the E6850 being 'old hat' then?! Even though all games may not optimise dualcore...it will still help run background apps etc.. And i'd have thought a dualcore sounds older then a quadcore!

I have Quad myself, even I think it's oldhat by the time those new quads will be released & possibly some might retail lower then the q6600 (goody my birthday's comming) , I think he cannot justify buying 2.4ghz processor over one that @ stock is 3Ghz.

 

[musx64]

So should he keep it ?

 

[musx64]

My nephews decided to keep it, that means I might get a chance to play with it !

Thanks for the replies, if I get hold of it, I will post some o/c pics up.