Thinking of going Quad

[mattup]

Hi all,

I am thinking of buying a 9650 and overclocking to 4Ghz if possble.

Are there and batches to be avoided?

Thanks in advance.

Matt

 

[Vertigo]

I honestly wouldn't bother right now. I've got an E8400 and have come to the conclusion that there's little point in going to a Penryn quad and will wait to go quad i7.

Personally I'm waiting for Lynnfield later in the year. This will be a lower-cost variant of the i7 on a smaller socket with a dual-channel DDR3 controller instead of the triple-channel one in Bloomfield. There will be a new lower-cost chipset to go with it too so both the CPU and motherboards will be more like current Penryn prices. DDR3 should continue to drop in price too and should hopefully be pretty cheap by then, plus you'll only need pairs rather than triples of it.

My thinking is new CPU, mobo, memory & Windows 7 in one go

 

[linktoinsanity]

Stick with your E8400 if I were you. Chances are that you won't notice much improvement over your current Dual. Especially not enough for the money.

 

[JonJ678]

It depends what you do with your computer. If you game, dual to quad doesn't seem to be considered worthwhile on here.

If you multitask heavily, definitely go for it. I like virtualbox very much, and running three operating systems at once makes a quad core a very good call. I hear it does good things for video encoding.

The other point is that overclocking quads is a lot harder than overclocking a dual core. This might be hassle you don't want, or might be fun. I'm enjoying myself, but it's taking me forever to get it stable at speed

 

[gurusan]

for gaming you will notice zero difference.

 

[CurlyWhirly]

The other point is that overclocking quads is a lot harder than overclocking a dual core. This might be hassle you don't want, or might be fun. I'm enjoying myself, but it's taking me forever to get it stable at speed

Why is this

I'm new to quad cores only having recently upgraded to a Q9650 from an Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton)

 

[NightmareXX]

Why is this

I'm new to quad cores only having recently upgraded to a Q9650 from an Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton)

4 cores generate more heat than 2. I believe that's the only reason, not necessarily that it's harder.

 

[CurlyWhirly]

4 cores generate more heat than 2. I believe that's the only reason, not necessarily that it's harder.

Thanks

 

[karl01]

I honestly wouldn't bother right now. I've got an E8400 and have come to the conclusion that there's little point in going to a Penryn quad and will wait to go quad i7.

Personally I'm waiting for Lynnfield later in the year. This will be a lower-cost variant of the i7 on a smaller socket with a dual-channel DDR3 controller instead of the triple-channel one in Bloomfield. There will be a new lower-cost chipset to go with it too so both the CPU and motherboards will be more like current Penryn prices. DDR3 should continue to drop in price too and should hopefully be pretty cheap by then, plus you'll only need pairs rather than triples of it.

My thinking is new CPU, mobo, memory & Windows 7 in one go

I am going over to i7 in the next couple of weeks so would the new lynnfield be a faster i7 than current models that are released at the minute

 

[littlepuppy]

Must admit, I have gone from dual to Quad and I think vista seems much more responsive on 4 cores, could just be me though and there is no science behind this observation. I have noticed no difference in games I should add.

 

[Dominor]

Must admit, I have gone from dual to Quad and I think vista seems much more responsive on 4 cores, could just be me though and there is no science behind this observation. I have noticed no difference in games I should add.

Hi, I got the same processor as you except not overclocked and I agree. Vista is more responsive no doubt, pretty shocking actually when in Vista just how fast things open and complete with a quad. Not sure about games, probably got a bigger leap from the GPU upgrade but it was noticable for me going from a 5600x2 to a 940 Phenom II, all in all I love my quad *hugs computer*

 

[Corasik]

I am going over to i7 in the next couple of weeks so would the new lynnfield be a faster i7 than current models that are released at the minute

No, it will be slower, it's running dual channel memory instead of tripple, it will probably run with lower clock speeds (although it will likely overclock just as well), it wont have QuickPath, instead it will have an integrated PCIe X16 controller (so have 1x16, or 2x8 only), and DMI for remaining devices.

It will still have Hyperthreading, and the removal of QPI, and 1 channel from the DDR controller will make the socket simpler to integrate on the motherboard reducing costs considerably. But Lynnfield (i5) will not be faster than i7.

 

[karl01]

No, it will be slower, it's running dual channel memory instead of tripple, it will probably run with lower clock speeds (although it will likely overclock just as well), it wont have QuickPath, instead it will have an integrated PCIe X16 controller (so have 1x16, or 2x8 only), and DMI for remaining devices.

It will still have Hyperthreading, and the removal of QPI, and 1 channel from the DDR controller will make the socket simpler to integrate on the motherboard reducing costs considerably. But Lynnfield (i5) will not be faster than i7.

Thankyou for your reply that as helped me decied to get i7.