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gaming pc, e21x0 overclocked or q6600

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about to upgrade, i've got my ram bought already, and motherboard & psu picked out, and will move my raptors into this machine

will be running vista 64, and have cpu & raptors watercooled

probably an 8800gt too

i know the q6600 has 4 cores, but will the performance be worth it over an overclocked e21x0?

money is an object, tempted to save the £100 for other things, like bills :p



are any of the e2's better at clocking that other e2's?
 
are any of the e2's better at clocking that other e2's?
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Most would say the ones with higher multi's would be easier to get higher clock speeds.. but from what ive seen a lot of E2140's seem to reach speed the same(or very close) to speeds that the higher E series can reach. Under water the low multi might be limiting you though, so id say E2160/E2180.

You'd probably get a decent overclock that would bring the chip relatively close. 3.2ghz is pretty likely, the thing is with a q6600 id imagine youd be looking at ~3.6ghz. Theres obviously performance gain in the q6600, and id say its a more future friendly processor to buy, depending on when you plan to upgrade the cpu.
 
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i know the q6600 has 4 cores, but will the performance be worth it over an overclocked e21x0?
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No, in my opinion. I can't justify the price to performance ratio.

An E2200 or E2180 is gonna cost over £100 less than a quad, and if you clock it to 3Ghz+ there is not a huge gap in performance when it comes to pretty much all modern games (at present) as they are primarily limited by the GPU. Also the fact that not all cores are utilised by games yet comes into play.

Of course, CPU intensive tasks such as video processing can be much faster on a quad, but as far as gaming is concerned there isn't much difference. My advice is get a cheap C2D and clock it high. By the time a quad core processor becomes significantly more beneficial in games, they will be much greater value for money.
 
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I've got a 2180 @ 3gig and am about to swap to a Q6600. A Q6600 sold in the members marker for £85 the other day, I suggest you considering a second hand bargain as the Q6600's are a far more capable chip.
 
Had a q6600 @ 3ghz a few months back. Just bought a 2160 and clocked to 3ghz (upping this to 3.6 hopefully over the weekend) and the difference for what i do (gaming/photo editing/a little video encoding) is marginal TBH.

@ 3.4+ i'd say i'd see a nice increase over my quad.

£85 is ok for a quad but then again £40ish for a 2160 is also a great deal.

The choice is yours but i'd possibly consider saving a little cash.

gt
 
Ive just changed from a Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz, to an E2160 @ 3.2Ghz and i have to say that in gaming ive not noticed any difference.
 
think i'll go for a e2140 for now, and get a e8400 or q8x00 or something like that in a few months time

cheers guys
 
now all i have left to do is find the 775 kit for my apogee :/

when i got the apogee i though "stupid intel kit, i'll never need that", then amd failed to impress with it's new offering :p
 
you can only see it after 250 posts, if you spam loads to build it up, you'll get banned though..

just the way it is :)
 
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