-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
Intel Core 2 Quadro Pro Q6600
- Thread starter lay-z-boy
- Start date
that is too expensive, well if you wait a 2-3 months tops, it should drop into the £300+ as a results of intels price cuts.
if you are going to buy this, might as well go the extra mile and get the qx6700.
roll on q6400, £200+ hopefully and a damn bargain.
if you are going to buy this, might as well go the extra mile and get the qx6700.
roll on q6400, £200+ hopefully and a damn bargain.
stickroad said:
The new ones are clocked lower, and the price is cheaper. Just means you can buy a lower clockrate and save money, then overclock it to be as fast as the more expensive ones
The QX6700 runs so hot because from what I understand, it's not a true quad core CPU, it's basically 2 C2D chips in one. I've read around abit and from what i've seen the QX6700 hits 75C+ on water with a dual 120mm rad, with stock volts and clock settings.
I don't know if the newer quads will be as hot as the QX6700 though.
Got mine at 3GHz, still trying to get in 100% stable, trying to avoid having to pump volts through it atm. It is stable when rendering in 3dsmax for prolonged periods of time. It also has no issues with benchmarks, but it fails Orphos Blend in under 15 seconds some times :/
Only got 1.375v through it I think. Load temps are ok, stay within sensible amounts with all my fans at lowest (somewhere under 5v I think, need a multimeter to check)
Pretty happy with 60 degrees under full load with complete silence. Goes to about mid to low 50s with turned up.
This is on a Zalman 9500 by the way.
When they new true quads come out they should be much better in theory, personally I can't see them being much cooler, just more efficient.
Intels method isn't as good as AMDs. Intel are still really bus limited in my experience. Guess we will wait and see though.
Only got 1.375v through it I think. Load temps are ok, stay within sensible amounts with all my fans at lowest (somewhere under 5v I think, need a multimeter to check)
Pretty happy with 60 degrees under full load with complete silence. Goes to about mid to low 50s with turned up.
This is on a Zalman 9500 by the way.
When they new true quads come out they should be much better in theory, personally I can't see them being much cooler, just more efficient.
Intels method isn't as good as AMDs. Intel are still really bus limited in my experience. Guess we will wait and see though.
Those are AMD's temporary solution as far as I know. Like Intel, they are both unable to consistently produce true quad cores. From memory I think AMD are bringing out true quads before Intel (can someone confirm that?)
goody_106 said:True, i think i remember reading that amds new K8L cpus will be quad core, will they take the crown back though, that is the question.... We will have to wait and see
I think there's going to be more than one crown, depending on what you need from a PC.
