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Q9550 worth the extra £££?

Robdav

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Guys,

still tossing up between a q6600 or a q9550. Is the q9550 worth the extra £97 over the q6600 in terms of performance at stock?

If I was to go the Q6600 route, and OC it to about 3GHZ would that give me equal performance to the Q9550?

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Q9550 has 12mb cache and runs native at 2.83GHz. I have one, but tbh, i'd go for the Q6600 and save your dorra. The prices will drop hugely before you ever get to utilise the full power of either cpu.
 
MooMoo444 said:
There's not a lot of performance difference, but the Q9550 would use less power.
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I had a Q6600 @ 3.7GHz, and went to a Q9950 @ 4.0GHz, and I have noticed a good performance increase (about 40%) in encoding (Divx) vidoes, which I do quite a bit off, for other stuff, as already mentioned a bit of an increase but not £97 worth I reckon....
 
jbloggs said:
I had a Q6600 @ 3.7GHz, and went to a Q9950 @ 4.0GHz, and I have noticed a good performance increase (about 40%) in encoding (Divx) vidoes, which I do quite a bit off, for other stuff, as already mentioned a bit of an increase but not £97 worth I reckon....
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Well OP said he could take a Q6600 to 3ghz to match the Q9550.. he didn't mention overclocking the Q9550.

Then again if you bought the 9550 and didn't overclock it, you would be commiting an offense ;)
 
Never worth the extra money £/performance and always the same with both cpus and graphics cards.

You just buy the best you can afford.

The q6600 is not worth the extra money over the E5200 performance wise unless you use software which uses all 4 cores.

If I could afford it I would have bought the q9550 over the q6600 but I overclock and the new q9550's overclock higher than the q6600 do.
 
I've just built a Q9550 rig - I upgraded from a dual processor dual 2.2 Xeon. It's an amazing performance boost. I've overclocked it to 3.7GHz and found it quite easy (it's my first experience at overclocking). It will hit 3.4GHz on stock volts very easily, and only takes moderate tweaking to get it stable higher up.

I'm getting superpi scores of 9.8 (on Linux) and it rips DVDs in Handbrake at about 150-160 fps. My old machine, and my PowerMac G5 dual 2GHz both managed around 10-20 fps. While I can't directly compare it to a Q6600, I'm certainly very, very happy with mine. Can't see that I'm going to run out of power for a while.
 
I have both , a Q6600 @3.2Ghz on an Asus P5N32E-SLI 680i board with 2Gb ddr2 ram and xp pro and a q9550 @3.8Ghz on an Asus Rampage Formula x48 board with 4Gb ddr2 ram with vista ultimate 64bit.

The Q9550 blows the Q6600 away on everything , video conversion is done in almost half the time on the Q9550 , games load faster and run a lot smoother, even windows boots faster.

I know they are different chipsets on the two boards and different amounts of ram and even different O/S but if i was to build another rig i would use a Q9550 without a doubt.

Just My Opinion, but if you have the cash , its woth it ;)
 
MooMoo444 said:
There's not a lot of performance difference, but the Q9550 would use less power.
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That's right MooMoo you tell em! :p

Less power = less kWh = Less £££ on your electricity bills

If you upgrade infrequently and are choosing a quad for psuedo future proofing then deffo go with the 45nm Yorkfield chips, you will recoup the extra cash over time and still have a superior product!

Greebo said:
The q6600 is not worth the extra money over the E5200 performance wise unless you use software which uses all 4 cores.
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Couldn't agree more, at around £55.00 the INTEL E5200 *baby* Wolfdale 45nm is a steal! :eek:

Cob said:
Get a second-hand Q9450.
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Sounds like good advice for people desperate to unleash some quad-core power, for everyone else the Wolfdales are rocking it!
 
Q9550 overclocked to 3.65 with a TT got me an extra 3500 marks in 3D Mark Vantage on Extereme. It is an amazing processor. Well worth the extra, especially if you have a 4870X2 or similar :)
 
I just went from a Q6600 to a Q9550, Q6600 did 3.4GHz 24/7, Q9550 does 3.8GHz 24/7 and it's faster clock for clock, was it worth it? not really, I just felt like a change and wasnt that happy with my Q6600.
 
Here's my beauty :D

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Thats the C1 aswell! :p
 
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