pardon my ignorance

[Ben M]

I've been reading numerous threads on this forum for the past week or so, for no real reason other than it's something interesting to do, i'm not palnning on upgrading my system or anything, although i did recently put in a new graphics card (which, yes, i did buy from OCUK)

And it would seem that the processor of choice is the E6600. Correct me if i'm wrong there.

But when I look at the list of processors on this website, here:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=6&sortby=nameAsc&subid=793&mfrid= it shows that the E6600 isn't the best dual core, the E6750 and the E6850 are both superior due to their higher clock speeds.

So am I missing something here? Why is it that you guys all seem to like the E6600 so much, as opposed to the other two.

 

[Azza]

E6600 is older than E6750, E6850. E6750 and E6850 are based on G0 stepping, they run cooler and overclock better.

The E6600 is priced higher because it retains its old price as it is old stock... if OcUK sold it any cheaper they wouldnt be making money on the CPU.

E6750, E6850 etc are apart of a range of CPUs based on the G0 stepping that phased out the E6600. E6700 etc.

Most people still have E6600 'cos whats the point of selling and losing money on something thats already doing the job perfectly fine...? No point at all in selling your E6600 for around £100 maybe less and then buying a E6750, overclocking that maybe and seeing no real world difference over the E6600 overclocked in all fairness, so people have jsut kept them.


Q6600 (G0) is liked so much because..

1) Its quad core
2) Its a cheap quad core
3) Its an overclockable quad core

 

[neodude]

Cheaper. And with a bit of overclocking can reach similar if not better speeds than the more expensive chips.

 

[pegasus1]

Its a low power chip thus runs cooler giving more room for OCing, and its cheap like the budgie.

 

[Yiuca]

Start of your thread you say E6600 then Q6600, I assume you mean Q6600 to overall to which case lets start.. The main reason people go for Q6600 is because it is Quad core as opposed to Dual Core, The Q6600 has 4 cores, the E6750 & E6850 both have only 2 cores, The Q6600 can overclock easily to 3Ghz with little effort, & no change in voltage...

The clock speed overall becomes somewhat mute when you have programs that can use more cores effectively, so if you get a program that can use 4 cores instead of 1 or 2, even at 2.4Ghz the Quad can outperform higher clocked Dual cores.

Edit: I took somewhat too long, teaches me to not get distracted! Anyway they pretty much explained it.

 

[Ben M]

Start of your thread you say E6600 then Q6600, I assume you mean Q6600 to overall to which case lets start.. The main reason people go for Q6600 is because it is Quad core as opposed to Dual Core, The Q6600 has 4 cores, the E6750 & E6850 both have only 2 cores, The Q6600 can overclock easily to 3Ghz with little effort, & no change in voltage...

The clock speed overall becomes somewhat mute when you have programs that can use more cores effectively, so if you get a program that can use 4 cores instead of 1 or 2, even at 2.4Ghz the Quad can outperform higher clocked Dual cores.

Edit: I took somewhat too long, teaches me to not get distracted! Anyway they pretty much explained it.

Sorry i meant E6600.

i may have been mixed up all along though, is it the E6600 or the Q6600 that is praised as lord?... okay slight exaggeration.

not many programmes will have much in a step up of performance from 2-4 cores though do they?

 

[Azza]

not many programmes will have much in a step up of performance from 2-4 cores though do they?

Some programs do.. video encoding programs, rendering programs etc make use of multi cored CPUs very well nowa days.


its just that games dont at the moment.

 

[Van Diemen]

Sorry i meant E6600.

i may have been mixed up all along though, is it the E6600 or the Q6600 that is praised as lord?... okay slight exaggeration.

not many programmes will have much in a step up of performance from 2-4 cores though do they?

That would be the Q6600

 

[Yiuca]

Some programs do.. video encoding programs, rendering programs etc make use of multi cored CPUs very well nowa days.


its just that games dont at the moment.

Quite a few programs do, but even those that done the more cores the more other programs you can flawlessly have open... With that said some games do work with Quad cores ok, they are just even rarer than games taking advantage of Dual core, however the advancement of games taking advantage of Dual-Quad is thanks to Xbox 360 & PS3 devs are learning some of these skills because they have too with consoles & hence taking them over the PCs & making PC games take advantage of multiple cores aswell, Supreme Commander takes care of 4, I think Assassins Creed does, Crysis is suppost too according to the producer, according to the demo it's 1 core, & to others I've read it's not much improvement over Dual core, but well we'll see with that one, the point is Games seem to be taking a step to Dual core, Splinter Cell Double Agent uses Dual core, I don't know if it makes the best out of Quad though.