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Q6600 RIP

The q6600 is harder to kill than steven seagal, i certainly wouldnt consider it a bad cpu even now, probably the best intel cpu ive ever owned.
 
I've just brought a Q6600 off Ebay brand new for £95 shipped! I thought it was a pretty good deal :) So I hope there not "dead" ^_^
 
I accidentally put 1.7v through it for a week, it lived, in fact it came out the other end better than it was before.

Best chipe I've ever owened, and I'll be using it for a while longer.
 
I am thinking of skipping everything out at the moment and keeping my Q6600 till at least next year. Sure it might not be the fastest, but I have still room to clock it more and I can still play BC2 at max settings at a reasonable lick, so why change?
 
Quad core 3.2ghz Q6600 is going to be a good CPU well into next year and beyond (as are most current AMD/Intel CPUs). Until games/software developers start developing properly coded, multicore suitable software I myself have no reason to upgrade anymore. Hardware is fast outpacing software devlopment.

But sadly all I can see is more and more console ports that are badly coded/optimised and as such don't see the linear performance increases that you would expect from climbing up the tech ladder.
 
Q6600 won't die, it'll fade away. Plenty of life left in the old do yet. Just what do you need from a CPU that the Q6600 doesn't do? i5/i7 are nice but hardly necessary to play Xbox ports which is all PC gamers can really look forward too :/
 
d_brennen said:
Q6600 won't die, it'll fade away. Plenty of life left in the old do yet. Just what do you need from a CPU that the Q6600 doesn't do? i5/i7 are nice but hardly necessary to play Xbox ports which is all PC gamers can really look forward too :/
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The thing is, even the quad core i7 isn't significantly faster than the Q6600 unless your running specific tasks or benching...

It seems the £800 hex core i7 seems to be the first chip to be significantly faster than the Q6600 if I'm not mistaken...
 
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