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Socket 775 quad core help

It depends on what your motherboard will support. The Q6600 is a safe bet and are quite cheap. Some boards don't support the later quad cores.

Also many of them are 1333FSB with the Q6600 is 1066FSB so it's easier to overclock on a lot of boards.

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£50 2nd hand Q6600 G0 is the only realistic option to be honest, unless you are VERY lucky to find a Q9550 for cheap...but most are still being sold at £120+, and if having you pay that kind of money for that CPU, you'd better off just builtda new budget i3 2100 rig instead.
 
I love my Q9550 EO which easily overclocks to 4ghz and did have it at 4.2ghz but I'm not to good at overclocking so couldn't get it perfectly stable.
 
this will not be overclocked at all, it will be running at stock speeds. my friend is only interested in 4 cores, 64bit, higher freq to help him speed up his system and photoshop.

ty for all your replys i will source him a q6600
 
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If you're running at stock speeds I'd steer well clear of the Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz.

All depends whether there is money to spend and whether the mobo will take a decent q9xxx.
 
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If you're running at stock speeds I'd steer well clear of the Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz.

All depends whether there is money to spend and whether the mobo will take a decent q9xxx.

its ok we have decided rather than spend out on old tech to go for

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Wouldn't be buying a dual core chip myself these days. But different strokes etc.
 
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Wouldn't be buying a dual core chip myself these days. But different strokes etc.
And it would be better to to get quad-cores with lower IPC, slower in games, consume more power and run much hotter such as Phenom II X4 or FX4100?

Seriously, anyone that recommend a Phenom II X4 of FX4100 over a i3 2100 for gaming deserve a smack on the face :D
 
this rig is not for gaming....... at all! its purely photshop, films and surfing.

as for future proof, by the time my frind has the cash to buy his own components to build a pc he will start from stratch and to the spec he wants.

the basket shown will do until CS8 (4 years, CS6 is on its way) at least
 
this rig is not for gaming....... at all! its purely photshop, films and surfing.

as for future proof, by the time my frind has the cash to buy his own components to build a pc he will start from stratch and to the spec he wants.

the basket shown will do until CS8 (4 years, CS6 is on its way) at least
The i3 2100 is still better than the two quad-cores I mentioned. They can't touch the i3 2100 unless heavily overclocked, which would consume EVEN MORE power and generate more heat, as well as needing a 3rd party CPU cooler- which's gonna cost another £25~£40 extra.
 
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