Is it worth upgrading from my E6600 TO Q6600?

[area512003]

I presently have an E6600 running at 3.6GHz using the Scythe Infinity. Idle is 42c and load never goes above 53c.

My Asus P5B is now compatible with the Q6600 (after bios update), so I was pondering on whether to upgrade?

My concern is that I would like to stay with air cooling (on the Scythe Infinity) as lots of others in this forum are taking up water cooling for the Quads but I would like to avoid the extra cost on top of purchasing the Q6600.

Your thoughts please?

Thanks.

 

[Participant]

What is it that you do with your PC?

If normal usage i.e. gaming internet emails music videos etc etc there I would say it's not worth it at this precise moment. However in the near future with games taking advantage of 4 cores or more (and with SupCom which sort of already does) then you will benefit greatly from having made the leap. the Q6600 is cheap now, yes, but in a few months it'll be even cheaper and we'll have the latest stepping and games that utilise all the cores.

To conclude I'd say don't bother unless you run specialist tasks requiring serious CPU power and multiple cores; you have a nice chip there which will see you right for another few months. Don't let them take your money!

 

[PhillyDee]

Ive been tempted by this myself, but ive decided not to. Its just too great a jump in price. If i had to decide between them, i would go quad, but already with an e6600 its hard to justify it.