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Q6600 RIP

I found the invoice for my build the other day, April 2007, £150 for the Q6600, a P5K-E board for £100 (iirc) and a couple GB of PC8500.

Amazing that the i7 bundles are so expensive and you don't get a lot more than what the Q6600 provided 3 years ago. Mine was running at 3.2 for a couple of years, better cooling sees it running 3.6ghz now with 5v fans, great system :cool:
 
My q6600 (3.2) and P5K Black Pearl are over 2 years old and going strong.

I can't find any reason to upgrade it right now. Everything else just seems like a marginal increase. Nothing worth shelling out more cash.
 
My q6600 ran between 3.2 & 3.4 for a couple of years without missing a beat.

Cracking chip.

It was starting to show it's age a little thoug esp when you start doing some multimedia stuff.
 
Still on my Q6600. Got it for £115 a couple of years ago - best CPU I've ever bought. I just can't justify an upgrade. It would have to be i7, as i5 just doesn't offer enough extra performance over the C2Q. But that upgrade would cost me £350, and give me something that's still not night-and-day quicker than the quad in most tasks.

If you were going to abandon the quad, the time to do so was when the i7 920 came out. It's still the best-value chip today, but the RAM's a lot dearer.
 
I only sold my Q6600 as i had a fantastic deal on the board/cpu/ram/cooler now have a I5 750@4 gig and loving it worth the upgrade that cost me as little as £90 for the lot.
 
Had my Q6600 for nearly 3 yrs now and still going strong dispite what i have chucked at it, Just building an i7 rig for myself so the Q6600 will go into my old mans pc :)
 
I bought my system from OC prebuilt with a Q6600 and intel IX38 Quad GT and only realised it wasn't overclocked last week so now I am at 3,2 and still trying to squeeze more out of it, although Im told that mixed Ram could be hindering it, how odd. I don't really know what are stable voltages or anything to get it nice and stable at 3.6GHz maybe
 
Does anyone know just how much faster an i7 920 would be over a q6600 when it comes to 3d rendering? assuming both running at 3ghz.
I was thinking of upgrading but it hardly worthwhile unless the speed jump is quite significant.
 
Depends, if the rendering package is mostly using 1-2 cores then the i7 would be somewhere around 12% faster clock for clock, if it can fully use 8 cores and works effectively with the HT units then potentially 50+% faster.

Overall difference clock for clock over a broad range of applications is less than 15% for the i7 920 and around 9% for the i5 750 compared to a Q6600.
 
You'll get that in some cases, but only in a small number of packages that can effectively max out the potential of HT units and the more effective per thread performance of the i7.

In other packages even with all the HT units in use it will give you around 30% increases.

But clock for clock, thread for thread there are no CPUs out currently, AMD or Intel, that are significantly faster than the Q6600. The main benefit over the Q6600 is the better overclocking and lower power usage/heat output clock for clock.
 
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