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Q6600 or the AMD Phenom 9500?

Blue Cypher

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As title really as i cant make my mind up what to get! I will be mainly gaming so i need one thats good for games, but i am open to suggestions to other suggestions for other processors as long as they are around the £160 price range.

thx in advance for replies
 
Blue Cypher said:
yeah but what i mean is it better bang for buck wise? is it better at playing games as sometimes faster doesnt mean better!
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Its better in every way imaginable

Which for a CPU.....means.

Faster, overclocks better, worth more when sold 2nd hand, uhhhh I dunno its a no brainer.

NOBODY buys AMD anymore who is looking for good bang for buck and wants to play games.

Put it this way, I got one the other day and it does 3.55Ghz with a good air cooler (clock for clock, a Q6600 is faster anyway). There's not a hope in hell you'll even get over 3Ghz with ANY Phenom processor on air.

Virtually ALL Q6600s will do at least 3.4Ghz, and virtually ALL will do 3Ghz on stock volts.

EDIT - I'm also an Ex-AMD-Fanboy ;) lol well not really, but AMD were always the best cpu's to buy. They haven't been since "Core 2" came out.
 
The Q6600 performs better than the Phenom 9500 clock for clock, and clocks higher. Not really much of a competition.
 
Blue Cypher said:
Steve thx for the link, that is really helpfull!! there should be a sticky that points to that!!
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It should be a sticky pointer at 'er material, but tomshardware is kinda unreliable so on the whole those benchmarks list are good indicators but I'll bet you they haven't exactly been carried out fairly.

Still, Q6600 spanks any Phenoms botty till it goes red and sore.
 
steve258 said:
Says it all really

If you already have a decent AM2 setup then maybe a phenom is worth it but since you're doing a platform upgrade Q6600 is a no brainer, unless you fancy waiting for one of them new Q9450s.
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yup, being faster in 3dsmax surely does equate to gaming performance.

the phenom b3's are out next month, which means no bugs and probably a decent boost in overclockability. which would mean a £120 2.2Ghz phenom could potentially hit 3Ghz , probably more. theres no reason why they shouldn't be able to hit as high speeds as they did on previous chips. at 3Ghz on any quad core in any game you will NOT notice the difference. £120 is still a decent saving, couple with an upcoming J&W 790x or 790fx mobo and you could have a very cheap VERY good gaming rig.

its worth waiting a month anyway, amd phenom being a little more competitive can only help bring prices down a little and gives time for penryn stocks to be better so early high prices are reduced.
 
For the money you spend, they are identical, YES ITS SLOWER - its cheaper too. 7xx series AMD motherboards are godly, CrossfireX and low heat, on the cheap. I'm begging for a decent B3 phenom, id sell my arm for a dual Phenom FX system. *weeps*
It depends, tbh, if you want SLi and the motherboards it needs the overclocking thing is less pretty (dont get me wrong it works - just not as stable or as far). If you can afford a decent P35/or low end X38 board + Q6600 get that as its better. If you cant a 790FX board and a phenom will still be a decent upgrade.
 
i had forgot about that, dual phenoms if they enable it would pawn skulltrail in price by probably thousands. aren't the skulltrail chips incredibly expensive and you can't use low end normal chips? as well as its fbdimms only and dual nvidia chipset stuff that means really expensive boards too? or was it server intel chipset either way, expensive as hell.

could be a decent B3 with dual chips and the ability to drop in two 9500's or something would offer ridiculous performance if you needed it.

but as said, phenom is more than fast enough for gaming, a cheap low power mobo with a cheap phenom clocked to 3Ghz or beyond would be really nice.

at the moment though 790fx's boards aren't blocking the phenom's well, but considering they do 350htt on x2's and 220-250htt on phenom's hopefully its more chip stepping than mobo. i can bump the multi on my fine for way more speed, pain to overclock by htt at the moment.
 
Reference board looked good but alas not to be (yet) once skulltrail is out im sure AMD will jump on the bandwagonw it its cheaper FX's and normal DDR2 and probably steal some customers.

PS The reference board
http://www.theinquirer.fr/savedfiles/AMD_CTO_Brief01.jpg

But yeah, just to sum up, either will do you fine as an upgrade, the q6600 can be overclocked a lot more, but its more expensive up front.
 
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