QX9650 vs Q6600

[Big.Wayne]

I'd say stick to the q6600 as the price the qx9650's go for isn't worth it the small performance increase

I'd stick with the qx9650 and sell the q6600...

So your saying . . . given the choice betwen two processors where the performance difference between them is "small" but one is worth approx £80 and the other is worth approx £165 he should sell the one that is worth less?

So he ends up with a processor that is fast and £80 instead of a processor that is fast and £165?

 

[Rroff]

I gave it to him for nout so he can't complain was a nice boost from a 2gig P4.

At stock with a modified ACF7 pro it runs a cool 20C at idle in his PC

 

[Michaeljcox24]

I wish I had a generous friend that gave away free £170 presents

 

[Alex R]

Been away. Thanks for all the posts. Just for info the QX9650 was given to my by my brother who is an electrical engineer. He got it free from Intel direct as an engineering sample. So I'm a bit reluctant to sell it.

Also, it is working nicely at 4ghz so I think I will leave it at that and probably sell the Q6600.

 

[Claire Drew]

Who in there right mind would pay £180 on the bay for a quad core when you could get an AMD 6 core for a fraction of the price???

 

[Ravenger]

Who in there right mind would pay £180 on the bay for a quad core when you could get an AMD 6 core for a fraction of the price???

Because to get an AMD CPU requires a new motherboard and memory, which both adds to the cost and also requires you to completely rebuild your PC and probably do a fresh OS install too.

Compared with dropping in a replacement CPU, putting a heat-sink on it and possbily having to upgrade the bios.

 

[Uther]

Plus of course,its the bay,and stuff can go for crazy prices on there!

 

[Alex R]

Selling it does sound attractive. However, I am a bit loathe to do it as it was a gift and it was an engineering sample in the first place. Is there any way the chip can be traced back? I wouldn't want to place my brother in a difficult situation professionally.

In the meantime. I ran OCCT for an hour yesterday and was getting temperatures that fluctuated pretty consistently between 64c and 73. The test passed fine but I was wondering if that was a bit high? Also, what vcore should be set? To be honest I hadn't changed it from the Q6600 settings at 1.44v, I just bunged it in. That goes down to 1.39v when pushed according to OCCT. I'm wondering if that is a bit high for a QX9650 - might explain the temperatures...

 

[JTrickle]

Who in there right mind would pay £180 on the bay for a quad core when you could get an AMD 6 core for a fraction of the price???

The same people who used to spend more on 2nd hand socket 939 AMD64x2s than you could get a core2+mobo+ddr2 memory for put together? They used to sell 2nd hand on the bay of ees for more than you could buy them new from OCUK towards the end, simply because the vast majority of sites had stopped selling them, and people thought they couldnt get them new any longer.

Lots of people dont like taking mobos out of cases. Or reinstalling windows after mobo swaps. In the current market, DDR3 still isnt as cheap as DDR2 used to be.

And you have windows licensing costs. An OEM machine from the high street can have the cpu upgraded, but you cant give it a whole new mobo without shelling out on a new OS. And then do you spend more on the full license [now nearly £100] as oppose to the OEM and risk the same problem again in future?

 

[mr griffin]

1.4v is about as high as you want to go to be honest and that's only needed if you want to run at 4.0ghz + and you would need some good cooling really. Not the crappy standard fan.

If you are running the chip at stock speed you shouldn't need more than 1.25v at the most.

 

[Alex R]

1.4v is about as high as you want to go to be honest and that's only needed if you want to run at 4.0ghz + and you would need some good cooling really. Not the crappy standard fan.

If you are running the chip at stock speed you shouldn't need more than 1.25v at the most.

Thanks. I've got it at 1.46 in the BIOS, but that drops to 1.41 because of vdrop/vdroop (can't remember which it is now). It was at 1.5 Seems to be stable. The cooling I am using is a Corsair H50 with 2 files attached so hopefully that is enough.