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Q6600 Performance Boost over E6300?

gam3r

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Hi guys..

I was thinking about picking up a cheap second hand Q6600 to replace my existing E6300. What kind of performance boost would this give me overall compared to the E6300?

Current specs are
E6300
Gigabyte 965p DS4
ATI 5770HD 1GB
2GB DDR2
 
Entirely depends on the applications you run, because there's not a huge clockspeed bump there (14%). If they're heavily multithreaded (eg media encoding, certain games like Battlefield 3, Supreme Commander, Farcry 2) then you'll see much more improvement.
 
I did exactly the same as you a good few months back and it was well worth the change. Especially considering a Q6600 can be had for very little cash outlay now. They are fantastic overclockers, I have mine sat at 3.2 Ghz running as sweet as a nut at low temps. I noticed a fairly large increase in performance with gaming and also when I had multiple instances of CS3 open at the same time and switching back and forth between them ( PS, Fireworks, Dreamweaver etc ).

If you do a quick search on my username you will see a good few threads and posts on the things I did with my E6300 and then my Q6600. Got loads of good info from folk here on overclocking the quad. :)
 
also agree,
My kids went from an E200 to a Q6600 and with running Bad company 2, etc... i/we can notice the difference
Q6600's are around £50 now in the MM, and the E6300 go for £15-£20
so for £30 you will have a decent upgrade ;)
 
I also have to agree, I went from an E6400 (@2.8GHz) to a Q6600 (@ 3.6GHz) and the difference is night and day in general use, gaming, everything.
 
You definitely want a quad core [at least] on your main rig these days. Multitasking will be much smoother and games take advantage of more cores now. So it's really no question.
 
Huge - i did the same upgrade and wondered if it would really make any difference, but it did. Starcraft 2 was much smoother, general windows stuff (light video editing and virtual machines). Only cost me £40 odd quid if you factor in selling the old chip and I haven't even bothered to overclock it yet :)
 
If you can find a good bargain then go for it. Higher clock speed, may well overclock further and twice the number of cores will all add up for a nice performance boost from an E6300.

Incidentally, which E6300 is it? Core 2 Duo (older one) or Pentium E6300?
 
linktoinsanity said:
If you can find a good bargain then go for it. Higher clock speed, may well overclock further and twice the number of cores will all add up for a nice performance boost from an E6300.

Incidentally, which E6300 is it? Core 2 Duo (older one) or Pentium E6300?
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It's the c2d, one of then earliest ones. Thanks for the feed back guys. I will have to make sure my motherboard revision is compatible which it should be hopefully.
 
I went the other way! When I sold my Q6600 system I built one using a E6300 C2D from old bits to tide me over, even clocked to 2.Ghz the difference was shocking :eek:
 
It's a no-brainer really. Any decent Q6600 will do 3.4Ghz. Combine it with a P35 motherboard (Gigabyte, Abit - in that order of preference) and that should keep you for a good while.
 
I've been wondering the same though I currently have a E8600 wolfdale (@3.3GHz) so its a bit faster than the OP's chip. Just not sure if the difference will be worthwhile :)
 
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