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E8400 or Q6600

My opty 185 cpu, could only get that to 2.8, it prob would go higher but it had rubbish temps, so much so I had to buy a ac freezer pro cooler. With the stock cooler, load temps were 75+ but the strange thing was 1 cores was always 10c cooler then the other, so that core was about 65c at load. The freezer knocked about 10c off but 65c is a tad hot for my liking so I didnt overclock it past 2.8.
The cpu I had before that wasnt too bad I guess, it was a fx55 clawhammer cpu, and could get 2.78 from it but any higher and prime95 would fail. The temps were quite good, with max temps of 54C and I was using the stock heatsink/fan too. If I could have increased the volts on the motherboard, I think I could have got a bit more out of it, but I could only increase the voltages by 2 notches on the motherboard.

So knowing my luck if I got a q6600, the temps would be stupidly high like on my opty 185 cpu. Im using a ac freezer 7 on my e8400 too, and the heatsink is barly warm, so its probly cooler then 45c at idel. This system is the coolest one that ive built, evern the psu runs cold when idel and slightly warm when gaming.
 
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I still have not found a video editing application that uses all 4 cores. To utilise all four cores I have to run two applications at once, each processing a different video.

Applications used almost daily for work:
Videocharge
Ulead VideoStudio 11
Boilsoft DVD Ripper
WinAVI Video Encoder
CloneDVD2

The best quality and fastest encoding is done by the ati radeon 1950pro gpu using the catalyst AVIVO Video Converter. That can convert a DVD to 2000kb/s wmv in about 8 minutes with excellent quality.
 
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I still have not found a video editing application that uses all 4 cores. To utilise all four cores I have to run two applications at once, each processing a different video.

Applications used almost daily for work:
Videocharge
Ulead VideoStudio 11
Boilsoft DVD Ripper
WinAVI Video Encoder
CloneDVD2

The best quality and fastest encoding is done by the ati radeon 1950pro gpu using the catalyst AVIVO Video Converter. That can convert a DVD to 2000kb/s wmv in about 8 minutes with excellent quality.
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I wouldn't exactly describe any of those as proper video editing applications, nor AVIVO as a good encoder - in any way.
 
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