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Q6600 or E8400 ?

I would go for the E8400, it's newer than the Q6600.
My brother went for a Q6600 and i went for E8400. Mine easily overclocks to 4ghz on air, could get more with watercooled.
He struggled to overclock his (the G0 stepping) and he has watercooling.

I think the E8400 is better in games actually, games prefer higher clocked CPUs.
The Q6600 will obviously be better for video encoding, but for multi tasking etc in windows they will be pretty similar.

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Plus the E8400 consumes less power, is cooler and it uses 45nm whereas Q6600 uses 65nm
 
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You are doing something wrong or you have a duff mobo if you cant clock a Q6600 to 3.6ghz on water cooling.

I certainly would take two extra cores over 400MHZ any day of the week in this current climate.
 
I dunno. As far as games go, we are starting to see releases now that take advantage of Quad cores. The new Arma II : Operation Arrowhead for example.

IMO in the long run, you would be better off with a Q6600 as it will "futureproof" your system to a certain degree and allow you to take advantage of the 4 cores when more games begin to support it. :cool:
 
Well my thoughts are made in the other upgrade thread E8400 > Q6600. Some people are saying that games will benefit from the two extra cores but which ones? Is there any evidence of this? The only modern game I can think of that can really use quad cores properly is Battlefield 2: Bad Company but even then the game only spreads the workload across the 4 cores of the CPU, it’s actually working just as hard as a dual core in that respect and the performance is the same.

Your performance will be dictated by your video cards not your CPU, the Q6600 or the E8400 are suitable so I say get the one which is cheapest.
 
skeletonw00t said:
Is 3ghz a good enough overclock for most new games on a Q6600 ?
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I'm a "mild" overclocker :D (I know, I'll get my coat ;) ) but I had my Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz for all the time it was in my machine. It was fine with any game I threw at it.

Just upgraded to an i7 920 and running it at 3.36Ghz at the moment. I will aim for 3.6Ghz at some stage though :)
 
Iv had both q6600 g0 and e8200, the quad clocked to 4 ghz on water, not that it needed it lol, I'd take the q6600 any day of the week, faster in windows, Most games, smoother and is a worthwhile upgrade for the future from a dual core.
 
Q6600 is pretty good, I have just moved over to intel from AMD and its been great, see my rigs. Currently at 3.7Ghz on air with 8GB of RAM, see how far we can go.
 
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