i3 or stick with my q6600 ?

[dfour]

If you look at the gaming charts none of them are games that use more than 2 threads so the i3 will be faster becuse of the clock speed advantage. If you overclocked the q6600 to 2.9 gig im sure it would all change and the i3 would be drawn or lose most.

Watercool it and a bit of overclocking will make it a much faster and quieter setup.

 

[Cycrow]

If you look at the gaming charts none of them are games that use more than 2 threads so the i3 will be faster becuse of the clock speed advantage. If you overclocked the q6600 to 2.9 gig im sure it would all change and the i3 would be drawn or lose most.

Watercool it and a bit of overclocking will make it a much faster and quieter setup.

doubt it, the i3 is still a faster chip, so with games that are only making use of dual core, the i3 will win, even if you overclock the Q6600.

however, if the game makes use of more cores, then the extra cores of the Q6600 will make it the better chip.

it all depends on what games you are playing as to which is the best to use.

but i would say its only worth changing, if its not going to cost you too much more.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Hey CaDLoN

already got the i3 to 4.5GHz so i think i'm gonna have fun playing with it

4.5GHz sounds promising . . . would you download Fritz 9 Chess Benchmark and tell me what "MultiCore" score you get please? . . . even better could you post up a screenie?

 

[CaDLoN]

Hey CaDLoN


4.5GHz sounds promising . . . would you download Fritz 9 Chess Benchmark and tell me what "MultiCore" score you get please? . . . even better could you post up a screenie?

yea will do, prob be tomorrow now as beer takes precedent over benchmarking tonight

i've got it prime stable @ 4.4GHz currenly, but it looks like there's plenty of headroom still...
4.75GHz booted into Win7 but not stable enough to benchmark (yet) http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1412474

 

[CaDLoN]

ah ha got a score
http://www.deicedeskimo.com/OC_ChessBM_s.jpg