E8600 or Q9550

[Duke]

How long have you got ?

Hehe. I had a Q6600 G0 myself but swapped it for a E8400 as I didn't use any of the extra cores and wanted something new to play with

 

[wellibob]

If a quad hit 4.5 gig core easy @ 1.3625v , and was rock stable on good air cooling and didnt cost the earth to run, i`d own one over my wolfdale.

 

[HeX]

End of the day tho, if you are playing high res games you are going to be GPU limited not CPU.

So the extra clock speed becomes useless, but then so are the extra cores in current games.

Swings n roundabouts innit

 

[HeX]

Well if your buying an E8600 thinking it's a cool running chip then think again.

Once you pass 1.35v things really tend to heat up quickly

4.3Ghz 60C max load with 1.35v

4.4Ghz 71C+ max load with 1.4v

Using an Ultima 90i with 2 x Yate Loon 120mm 1650rpm fans in a push pull config.

You are prolly just passing the thermal threshold for that cooler.

If you had a TRUE on there you would prolly find that temp rises only a small ammount.

I ran my E8500 @ 1.4V @ 61C on a TRUE with a single 1200rpm fan.

 

[Cob]

O.k so heres a question, how much quicker would a stock Q9550 be than a Q6600 @ 3.6.

I would vote the overclocked Q6600 would wipe the floor until you start overclocking the Q9550 of course.

If not I want one too!!

Clock for clock the 45nm chips are 10% faster. But that's before the likes of SSE 4.1 are taken into account.

 

[willhub]

I just bought a second hand E8500 for 100 quid, I'll be happy if I get 4Ghz, be silly getting a quad for me, nothing to take advantage, too much heat from the Q6600's, too much power electric bills would deffo go up and my mobo would only be stable at about 3.2-3.6 with a quad so would rather have a dual core and Nahalem will be here soon.