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Q6600, E8400 or Q9450

I am pretty sure i'm just going to go for the E4500 now.

I think the quad core will be better to get later in the year, or sometime next year.
by then, I will probably be noticing my system is naff compared to quad core PCs, and i'll need to upgrade.

Probably need to get a new Mobo and graphics card too, but hey, cant keep the same hardware forever!
 
Just sold my Q6600 this morning for £160. :eek: That's £8 more than i paid for it. :D Seems like people will pay a premium for a good clocker. Ordered my E8500 on Friday from elsewhere so it should be here tomorrow. If City Link does their job properly. The best thing is that it only cost me £16 more than what i sold the quad for. :D:D Hopefully i should have some results by Tuesday or Wednesday.
 
pastymuncher said:
Just sold my Q6600 this morning for £160. :eek: That's £8 more than i paid for it. :D Seems like people will pay a premium for a good clocker. Ordered my E8500 on Friday from elsewhere so it should be here tomorrow. If City Link does their job properly. The best thing is that it only cost me £16 more than what i sold the quad for. :D:D Hopefully i should have some results by Tuesday or Wednesday.
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thats exactly what i got for mine.
 
I wish I had not read endless benchmarks comparing Q6600 vs E8x00 chips... i'd have hapilly bought a Q6600 that way and been oblivious that in most games the higher clockspeed of the E8x00 cpus will give better performance (until games start to make better use of multicored cpus).

/confused
 
I find it very strange that as soon as the new competitor to the Q6600 is released (E8400) then the price of the quad core has shot up. I would have thought that Intel would have been keen to shift these quads at a decent price with the imminent arrival of the 45nm Quads due very soon - but apparently not.
 
The more I look into these new 45nm quads, the more I think that they just wont be as good.
They aren't going to overclock as good as the Q6600, unless you have a mega expensive motherboard.

With midrange mobo and ram, i'm plumping for the E8400.

However, I might wait another week, see what the benchmarks for the new quads look like. You never know, they could be beasts!
 
DevilBoy916 said:
The more I look into these new 45nm quads, the more I think that they just wont be as good.
They aren't going to overclock as good as the Q6600, unless you have a mega expensive motherboard.

With midrange mobo and ram, i'm plumping for the E8400.

However, I might wait another week, see what the benchmarks for the new quads look like. You never know, they could be beasts!
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That's what I'm doing at the moment as well :) I don't think we should jump to conclusions, however the low multipliers won't help overclocking much :/
 
In all fairness as much as people say the quad is not going to be used to its full potential, it wont clock as high as a dual, its more expensive, etc, etc.... Id still get the Quad! :)

Quads will be used more and more in months and years to come... its not silly to stick to dual... i think they are good too... but Quads are the way forward! :)

But maybe i ust really want one as im stuck on my 939 Athlon x2 3800+ :P
 
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But maybe i ust really want one as im stuck on my 939 Athlon x2 3800+ :P
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Everyone with multi-core server knowledge knew the jump from single-dual is worthwhile for the home user. It's easy to load out a single core CPU, but it's unlikely you'll go on to do another heavy CPU process.
 
musx64 said:
I've just sold my Quad to a friend @ work for £150 :D:D, ordered by E8400, should get it Tomorrow:D. I will keep that for about 6-12mths, before upgrading again. God Knows how much a q6600 will be worth when the new quads come out.

Happy Days....
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Hopefully a LOT less, which means that regular peeps can buy quads and oem's can put them in systems on a regular basis, meaning quad core programming will become common place. Unfortunately the reality will be that Q6600 tech will be fazed out, so it will only be 2nd hand items you be able to get, and quad prices will still stay expensive :(

Matthew
 
If you sell a Q6600 now you will get 140 plus at auction, in 3 months maybe 80. Buy a new e8400 now and sell it in 3 months you will lose very little. The economics are fairly obvious but I guess not everyone thinks about that when choosing a CPU :)
 
C64 said:
Yes but the 6850 was not a 4ghz + chip and the same tech, and from what i have seen some of them struggle to make 3.8ghz this is a whole different ball game than the 6850.
If the 8400 blows away the quad and is cheaper that already makes the q6600 worth less than the new price of an 8400 in my view.
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How does the 8400 'blow away' a quad? From what I have seen 4.2ghz is about the average for an 8400, 3.8 being the average for a quad giving an average 400mhz to the wolfdale, but with 2 less cores and 2 meg less cache I fail to comprehend how it blows it away lol. Sure there aint many programs that utilise four cores at once but what about multitasking? What about folding with a couple of cores while you use the others for gaming? Encoding a movie while endulging in a game of supcom?

The wolfdale is not 'new tech' afaik its simply a shrunk die with extra cache giving lower temps and higher clocks but intel didn't design for those reasons, they are simply a by-product of better yields which in turn gives intel higher profits. Rememeber that the enthusiast market is miniscule in comparison to the home market. I'm happy about these by products but lets not get carried away.

If we are talking bang per buck then I agree the 8400 is very good value but for raw power, for an all round pc then a good clocking Q6600 still comes out top imo hence why the price has not dropped since the emergence of the Wolfdale. I would like to wager that the wolfdales higher clock speeds have done very little for fps increases in games despite the leap in clockspeed. When source start to use mutlithreading and games like Alan Wake arrive on the scene, those who jumped ship may well regret that decision...unless they have the cash for an unlocked yorky.

I cant understand folk who claim 2 cores sit idle 'all the time' and that a quad is a waste. If that were the case then why have a dual? Single core cpu's should suffice no? I'm looking forward to octo cores tbh :P

I'm still debating which is the best option but I can't help but feel the wolfdale will just be for benching and the quad for 'real' pc use.
 
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