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Quick comparison Q6600/HD7850 Vs i7-3770

The reults seem abit underwhelming which gives the impression I can keep going on Q6600 for another year, wait till next big thing or just wait for pricies to drop on sb/ib. From the results, there will be very little affect on gfx/gaming, but I do encode a fair few videos so the extra cpu power would help there, but I can hold out ;)
 
MadMatty said:
The reults seem abit underwhelming which gives the impression I can keep going on Q6600 for another year, wait till next big thing or just wait for pricies to drop on sb/ib. From the results, there will be very little affect on gfx/gaming, but I do encode a fair few videos so the extra cpu power would help there, but I can hold out ;)
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underwhelming? Some of the CPU tests are over 3 x the speed on a cpu with same number of cores clocked barely 17% higher thats hardly underwhelming.

But depends what card you are running with the Q6600 with my 4850 i think was nice balance but the 7850 was being held back by around 30-50% at times

If your interested i can run you a video compression benchmark on the i7 to compare with the Q6600, as in understand it the difference should be significant like whole different league, but i dont know for sure
 
Sure for cpu intensive tasks of which only video encoding every now and then counts for me it will be a notable upgrade. Going by your posted 'game' related benchmarks it doesnt do enough for me to splash out on a new machine for that purpose.

Ill just add that I mean my curent overclocked q6600 vs stock i7. I guess the margin will be much bigger when results for both occed are compared and more fulfilling ;)
 
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MadMatty said:
Sure for cpu intensive tasks of which only video encoding every now and then counts for me it will be a notable upgrade. Going by your posted 'game' related benchmarks it doesnt do enough for me to splash out on a new machine for that purpose.

Ill just add that I mean my curent overclocked q6600 vs stock i7. I guess the margin will be much bigger when results for both occed are compared and more fulfilling ;)
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3.4ghz Q6600 is 3 times slower than stock i7 3770 m8

Whole point of my post was highlighting the fact that a Q6600 @ 3.0ghz is a lot slower than even a stock i7 but anyway i assume you dont have the 5-700 to burn or you would probs have upgrade already. Either way its well worth it.
 
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