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.

 

[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?