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E6850 stepping

musx64

musx64

musx64

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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.
 
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 ?
 
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.
 
Where is easyrider when you want him?

I would send it back and get the quad, 4 cores for the same price, and they overclock very well.
 
Devious said:
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.
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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.
 
krisbutler said:
dnt get a quad the e6850 is proven to be beter 4 gaming
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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 much more ;)

And about a Q6600 being old hat...why isn't he worried about the E6850 being 'old hat' then?! :p 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!
 
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musx64 said:
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.
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Who mentioned water ? I would rather have 2 extra cores than 200Mhz, especially if he is keeping it for a year. Hopefully this year is the year where it will be common that games will start to use more than once core.
 
Cr0fty said:
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?! :p 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!
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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) :D, I think he cannot justify buying 2.4ghz processor over one that @ stock is 3Ghz.
 
morguk said:
Benchmarks prove it. My e6750 thats £50 less than the quad also beats it on most games. Supreme Commander (coded make use of 4 cores) only beats my CPU by like 3fps.
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Yes but the quad could be encoding a movie at the same time :)
 
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.
 
If it's an E6850 your after, try get hold of a L719B. . . majority of them clock to over 4ghz on air np.

I dont know why you just dont wait for the Wolfdale's, E6850's etc a waste of time now.
 
I have had both the E6850 and Q6600 (G0) (my present processor), and I would choose the Q6600 everytime....it o/cs very well indeed, maybe not quite as high as a E6850, but not far behind.

When using software that uses multi cores (some encoding programs, Adobe products etc), it really comes into its own, and leaves the E6850 well behind. :)
 
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