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Q6600 or e8400?

Think ill go with the q6600 anyway, not going to clock it to much. Where is a webpage that tells me the facts about Ram? rather than asking loads of questions.
 
Timmymeuk said:
I would like the Q6600 because I do a bit of video editing. So most people are saying that the temps are alright but would my sythe mini ninja cope with it?
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Does your editing app support 2 or 4 cores? Is the disc sub system up to feeding data to and from the program? (last time I tried an older version of pinnacle for editing/recoding it could not max out the 1.86 core 2 in the PC when wrting camera footage to mpeg2)
 
gt_junkie said:
In that case get the quad. Will walk it for video editing.

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It won't walk it at all. SSE4 more than makes up for the 2 core deficit (making the E8400 around 20% faster) though only in software that supports it, which I think most do now. Where SSE4 is not supported the Q6600 is much quicker although still not twice as fast (around 33%).

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/04/07/intel_core_2_duo_e8500_e8400_and_e8200/8

If it's a mini ninja going on it I'd assume that it's going in a HTPC and would then go for the E8400.

Very tough choice though with these prices. It really boils down to what software the OP is using.
 
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