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E8400 OR Q6600

Greebo said:
7th May it sold. I looked at selling as a bundle too but decided I would get more selling seperately on the basis that more people would want to buy the cpu as a cheap upgrade for their socket 939 system if they had a single core processor, people would want the 2 x 1Gb ram to upgrade them from 1gb to 2gb or even 2gb to 4gb for Vista users and my mobo was a DFI lanparty expert which people just want anyway! :D

Got £69.95 for the cpu. Best of it was I bought it about 6 months ago from ocuk on special for £46 :)
£65 for the corsair c2pt memory (poor really as two previous lots sold for £80+) and sold the expert on members market here for £47

So £196.95 in total for my socket 939 bundle so not bad. For that money I could I bought a cheap Intel system (mobo+dual+2Gb) but I went the whole hog and got as per my sig for about £250 2nd hand off here and the bay. £50 well spent :D
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Hey! :eek: You did well!;) I need to find someone else with a white stick (no offence to anyone with the same problem reading this ;)) I have a Socket 939 4200+ , 4 x 512mb DDR (Crucial RAM 184 pin PC3200), and an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe gaming motherboard, and would love to get money like that. Mine stuff is currently sitting as a spare (emergency back up PC) in another bedroom.
 
GunRunner said:
So internet browsing, reading emails in Outlook 20027, word processing, burning CDs etc etc, is so much faster on a quad? :):D;). Quickly looks around for stop watch!:rolleyes:

In many cases it seems that there is a pre-conceived idea that to have 4 cores is better than 2 purely because there are twice as many. :rolleyes: Perhaps it is now down to the ner.. ner...I have a quad and you have only got a duo, or the attitude of mine is bigger than yours that keeps appearing in today's society. There, I have said it now! That should keep the debate going shouldn't it? Ducks down behind table laughing!
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i bet you think you're hilarious. i mean, if he wants to photoshop then a quad will be better, etc... for the surfding, etc, a PIII will do; you know that a well as i do
 
Ben M said:
What's better, a sports car or an estate?

It depends what you want it for.
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...ah but! There is one overiding factor here! The speed camera on the way to the supermarket. So the faster BMW remapped 335D with 6 cylinders has got to be the one, because it has got 6 cylinders and not 4!:)
 
-iceblade^ said:
i bet you think you're hilarious. i mean, if he wants to photoshop then a quad will be better, etc... for the surfding, etc, a PIII will do; you know that a well as i do
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Oh...you really took this to heart!:rolleyes: It was not an attack on you, just part of the overall debate..but there you go. If the cap fits wear it. As the old saying goes, "If you cannot take the heat dont go into the kitchen".
 
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GunRunner said:
Dont we just love this debate! ;) The day it becomes really relevant is the day that both processors will be out of date. Having run both dual and quad, I knew which way to go for MY situation. Currently flying IL2 Forgotten Battles http://www.warbirdsofprey.org/
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? Alan Wake is end of this year, so is Far Cry 2, Supreme Commander is out now.

Bottom line is, to me I think more cores = better. Especially if your PC isn't just used for games.
 
matt100 said:
I'm fairly sure he was involved in a discussion on this before so no, I think its just self congratulation on his choice or wanting to up the post count a bit tbh.
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he was it was my thread for the same question. and I went with the q6600. i do love the way 'tunstall nick' has the best components and yet the apparent intellect of a door knob. :P
 
GunRunner said:
...ah but! There is one overiding factor here! The speed camera on the way to the supermarket. So the faster BMW remapped 335D with 6 cylinders has got to be the one, because it has got 6 cylinders and not 4!:)
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But what about the paddle things in the turbo that are just going to break?
 
easyrider said:
With a Q6600 going for 130 is the answer that hard?

Why bother with a dual core?

End of thread.
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I personally think the Q6600 is stupidly cheap, to me the only other deal that has been so good was the E2160/80 chips when they were first released, stupidly good performance for the money.

GunRunner said:
Exactly! That is the reason I posted.

;)
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Honestly, to me if I saw someone buying a dual core CPU that costs over 100, rather than getting a quad I would be trying to sell the person magic beans.

Fair enough, the dual's can be clocked to 4GHZ or so, but the Q6600 can go to 3.5GHZ often, (well mine can't because my motherboard sucks but still that will be fixed soon enough). 500MHZ less but twice the cores, thank you sir :p

Still, as long as people are informed enough of all the options available to them, understand them, and then make their choice based on that its all happy times. We can't all agree I guess :)
 
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Encoding, loads of multitasking, "future-proofness*", e-penis: get a quad.

Pure speed: get an 8400.

I can't see how anyone could disagree with that.


*I don't like to ever play the "future-proof" card. The only people who care are the kind of people who'll buy a new system in a year or two anyway. So games that might potentially be released in a year's time that can fully utilise 4 cores would probably be too slow on an "old" chip like the Q6600.
 
p4radox said:
So games that might potentially be released in a year's time that can fully utilise 4 cores would probably be too slow on an "old" chip like the Q6600.
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I was under the impression that it was to be phased out soon as all the plants are going across to the 45nm process! Anyway, that is why the Q6600 is so cheap as this review will tell you it is history. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Intel_Core_2_Quad_Q9300_Processor/?page=8

So if your e-penis says go quad then it has to be at least a Q9300, but perhaps the Q9450 will be the defacto standard. Well for 3 months or so. :D
 
GunRunner said:
that is why the Q6600 is so cheap as this review will tell you it is history
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Where does that review say that a Q6600 isn't going to hack it - or indeed, come into it's own - in forthcoming games?

Nowhere, that's where ;)
 
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