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Upgrade from E6600?

elliot100

elliot100

elliot100

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Quick question: If I have a 1066FSB motherboard, is there any point in buying a Q6600 (the only 1066FSB quad available) at £150 (and maybe flogging the E6600 for say £50). I presume that any faster quad CPU would run the same or worse as the Q6600 given the motherboard?

Built the system around 1.5 yrs ago and don't really want to start again, and don;t have sufficient spare time to spend on OC..
 
Unless you do sever encoding/editing/modelling you'd see next to no gain going for the quad, very few games can use the quad, save your money and stick to your E6600, you should be able to get a reasonable OC quite easily if you feel youre needing more form your machine. Whats your gfx card? If this is a year and a half old youd prob see more gain there
 
elliot100 said:
Quick question: If I have a 1066FSB motherboard, is there any point in buying a Q6600 (the only 1066FSB quad available) at £150 (and maybe flogging the E6600 for say £50). I presume that any faster quad CPU would run the same or worse as the Q6600 given the motherboard?

Built the system around 1.5 yrs ago and don't really want to start again, and don;t have sufficient spare time to spend on OC..
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Stay with the E6600 i use to have it but i gave it to my brother as he wanted a gaming pc so thats the only reason i have the E8600 right now but to be honest i cant see a real difference between the 2, the E6600 is an awesome chip, stay with it and overclock the nuts off it, i got my bros E6600 to 3.6GHZ prime stable and it flys through everything.
Just make sure to get a good cooler.
The only upgrade i would make if i were you would be a motherboard, a P45 chipset, get a Asus P5Q Deluxe, you wont regret it.
 
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cheers, just got a 260 (896Mb/216 core) to replace the 8800GTS (320Mb) so that should future-proof the graphics for a while. don't think i'd get round to rebuilding motherboard at the mo.

The E6600 is suprisingly robust, just realised that its fan was disconnected for the last few days with no seeming ill effects -- until i tried to play a game at which point it did go a bit funny. i'm running it through a fan speed controller so had got used to overriding POST warnings about the fan...
 
Just changed from an e6600 @3.6ghz to an [email protected] and while there is a big improvement in a couple of games i'm not sure it is enough to warrant the upgrade price. You'd def be disappointed if you changed to a q6600 unless your just doing encoding stuff. Stick with the 6600 until you get a new m/b....it's still a great chip.
 
dont change, my brother has the same chipset mobo and graphics card and he has a q6600 and myself the e6600 and there is almost no difference even clocked at the same speed, i am really happy with my cpu as it has lasted me over 2 years and still keeps up with modern cpu's which i feel is a great achievment
 
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