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Q6600 or E8400 ?

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Hi all

Friend I am hopefully getting 2x 4890's and a CPU from text me yesterday and let me know as well as the E8400 he has for me, he now just got his hands on a cheap Q6600

I can have either for the same money as part of the bundle I am getting off of him, which is going to be best for gaming and obviously cause the least bottleneck with the 2x 4890's?

I will be OC'ing the CPU's so take that into account

Cheers

Ben
 
In newer games you'll see better results with the Q6600 at 3.6GHz than the E8400 at 4GHz. Some older games that are only optimised for dual cores you'll see slightly better performance with the E8400. However my suggestion is to go for the quad and hope it's a decent clocker.
 
Q6600 all the way. More and more games are making use of the extra cores plus it will not bottleneck the crossfired 4890's either.

What board is it going in?
 
Will be my ip35 for a bit til I can afford a good X38 or p45 board. I know the 35 will bash out a good oc but i want twin 8 or 16x pcie lanes
 
P35 will be good for clocking the Q6600 but no good for crossfire with that second lane only running at pci-e 1.1 4x speed. A P45 board such as the Asus P5Q pro Turbo would be good.
 
Yeah that's what I am aiming for. However my old 4770 setup showed good gains on this board equal to p45 setups so for the sake of research I am going to give it whirl. . . Will post up results when I get the gear : )
 
i regretted of going from a q6600 to a e8500 = ( even tho is running at 3.8ghz but it feel slow comparing to my q6600 3.2ghz
 
pastymuncher said:
P35 will be good for clocking the Q6600 but no good for crossfire with that second lane only running at pci-e 1.1 4x speed. A P45 board such as the Asus P5Q pro Turbo would be good.
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aren't the differences tiny when comparing pci-e ? isn't it as small as 3-5% slower ?
 
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Maybe on a P45 board with PCI-e 2.0 but we are talking about a P35 board with PCI-e 1.1 with the second slot only running at 4x. That is going to cause some serious bottlenecking.
 
There's like 25% performance drop when running a second card at 4x PCI-E 2.0. I imagine it would be even more noticeable with PCI-E 1.1.

3-5% applies only to 8x/8x vs 16x/16x PCI-E afaik. PCI-E 2.0 is double the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.1.
 
ok mate has just sent me a piccie of the Q6600

on the heat spreader it has SLACR MALAY, am i right in saying that they are normally the better clockers?
 
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