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OC'd Q6600 to i7 whatever/970/etc - how BIG a jump in perf?

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OC'd Q6600 to i7 whatever/970/etc - how BIG a jump in perf?

Im using my near 3 year old rig for video editing in Vegas using Cineform intermediates plus Photoshop CS3, NeatImage etc etc

How much (in multiples) faster am I likely to see of an improvement upgrading right now to one of the faster processors available?

I saw a definate 3-4 times improvement when I went from my Athlon 64 3500+ to my OC'd Q6600 @ 3.4 - Eg: something that took 4 minutes to render dropped to 1 minute etc (not using multiple cores there either).

Just looking for real world info from perhaps someone who has made this upgrade.

Thanks :D

R
 
In before someone makes comments that the tests aren't fair and side with one CPU or the other and turns in to a 300 reply long thread.

Serious response, I've read it can be up to about twice as fast with encoding.
 
i use x264 and my i5 750 doing 3.5ghz on all 4 cores was encoding video at around 7fps.
video input was a dvd of the mask2.

i use proper gangster settings that slow the encoding down a lot. but end results are very good.
 
i've just moved from a c2d Q6600 to an i7 920, i noticed a 20% improvement.
i changed from 8gbs of 1066 ram in dual channel to 6gbs of 1600 in triple channel, i do miss the 2gb off the top, especially in games.

my Q6600 was oc'd to 3.2ghz, my i7 is now up to 3.4ghz.

i have not changed my hard disk, a 150gb wd velociraptor.

the graphics card was changed from an ati 4890 2gb to this card, again, i do miss that 1gb of gddr5.

hope that helps.

summary: 20% overall performance gain (about the same as before in some games), temps down, boot in 45 seconds, 700mb avi to dvd in nero 7 in 21 minutes, hd (mkv) to sd (avi) in 40 minutes (at best quality). Whether you notice it depends on what you do.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
And much to Easyrider's disappointment - ' It doesn't list the Phenom x6 ' :D
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Obviously that chart is totally wrong and FUD as he likes to say ( whatever that means - quick wiki search says: "a Mexican brand of cold cuts and hot dogs", "Female urination device" ) because 965BE comes up with same performance as 920 which obviously cannot be true since 920 is 10x faster than the 965 in just about everything.
 
PhoenixUK said:
Obviously that chart is totally wrong and FUD as he likes to say ( whatever that means - quick wiki search says: "a Mexican brand of cold cuts and hot dogs", "Female urination device" ) because 965BE comes up with same performance as 920 which obviously cannot be true since 920 is 10x faster than the 965 in just about everything.
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Have you any better charts that you can share ?
 
not really tested the i stuff myself but tbh i wouldnt (and havent) upgraded my q6600, as humans we always want the latest and greatest but sometimes its better to hang tight for a bit especially if gains arent great (ie wait for next gen of cpus!)
 
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