Q6600 or E6750, quad worth the money?

[snowdog]

Getting a p5b deluxe soon so can sell the PD and get a c2d architecture finally.
Q6600 or E6750 ? The q6600 is a lot more for me I'd have to save up a lot longer.
Could the 95 watt edition of the Q6600 reach 3ghz with a freezer 7 pro & p5b deluxe and a geil pc6400 ull kit?
And how high would the e6750 go, I'd like 3.6 ghz?


Oh I dunno if I should make a new thread in the mobo section but what's better for ocing:
P5B
P5B-E plus
P5B deluxe
?
Am I right thinking the deluxe is best, I'm just not sure about the plus?

 

[Gunther]

No problem with P5b deluxe, Geil pc6400C4 and the e6750

 

[smit101]

For less than £40 more than the 6750,I'd say it's definitely worth going for the Quad.It should easily do 3ghz on the Arctic pro.

If you can,go for a P35 board as they clock the quads very nicely.Asus,Gigabyte and Abit all have good value for money options.

 

[snowdog]

I dont have so much money, I'm getting my p5b deluxe for 35 €, but p35 boards arn't on the product list yet, it are Bulk prices...

40 quad is a lot for me also for a q6600, I just don't know if I'll manage to strech, I'm a 16 year old jobless kid, so might take months even just to save up the extra for a q6600 .

Already have the Geil ULL, it does 867 mhz @ cas 4 so I think I wont be limited with that, as I'd expect about 900-1000 with loosened timings...
Already have a freezer 7 pro too...
Decisions decisions.

 

[smit101]

If money is tight,then forget the 6750 and go for a 2180 with a decent cooler,you'll be able to clock it to 6750 speed and beyond,the board and ram you specify are more than capable of allowing high clocks.

 

[w3bbo]

For the money the quad is the better buy. If you want dual core then buy a cheap low end one and clock it.

 

[snowdog]

Overclock isn't guaranteed though. And I want that extra cache, I want my cpu to last 2 years.
The e 6750 looked like the best bang for buck cpu @ stock, and will prolly go higher on oc than the 2 and 4 series, If I upgrade cooler it might reach 3.7 ghz I recon, higher than the low ends would ever go.
I'm leaning to the q6600 though, as imo it's more likely to last me 2 years, I can always upgrade cooling later on to get higher clocks...

Anybody know what the tdp is of a quad 6600 g0 @ 3ghz + required voltage.
Is it more than my current 150 watts for my pentium D (if not, it means I 'should' get better temps than now)?

I can always buy the cpu later on too, for the first weeks I'll still be stuck with my old kit, I'm future proofing me a bit to pci-e1.1 and for conroe support so I can later buy something better in terms of gfx and cpu. So for now only thing I'm sure about is that the p5ld2 goes and the p5b deluxe wifi/ap comes.