Which upgrade path 6300, 6600, 6700 or Quad

[AnastieByte]

Big range I know but... I do not plan to overclock as Im thick and would not know where to start despite reading stickys

But I want to upgrade Ram, mobo and CPU in a month. I do not do any video editing but may run multi apps on ocassions such as AV while surfing??
Main PC use is games and web surfing.

I can comfortable afford a 6600 but could stretch to 6700 if the performance gain is a big one. Or I could save a little longer for quad.

Thoughts please

 

[mysticsniper]

Stick to the E6600, you won't go wrong

 

[thefishdude]

6600 i would say unless you can stretch to a 6700. but 6600 should be fine.

 

[tipes]

Hi there,

6600 get's my vote too - a great processor for the money.

Mark

 

[Big.Wayne]

Surely a CD2 e6300 would be more than enough for your needs?

Save yourself some cash £££

 

[Jokester]

I would go with the 6300 and a good overclocking board if you were that way inclined.

Jokester

 

[XtAsY]

What processor you go for really depends on several things.

Are you happy to overclock? If yes the E6300 is awesome, easily hits 3GHz. If not, the E6600 is the one to go for. I wouldn't bother with the E6700 as theres a big price jump over the E6600 and the performance gain doesnt really justify it.

Now if you saved up that little bit more and bought a Core 2 Q6600 available the beginning of next year (thats a quad core chip), your getting essentially 2 E6600 dies in a single package. Now most say quad core is pointless but I tell you now it will be really worth it if you want to be future proofed. Games WILL be released next year that will be multi threaded and take advantage of 4 CPU cores and you will reap huge benefits over dual core. Multi tasking in windows is even better and more responsive. If you dig around for some benchmarks and look at current apps that take advantage of them, quad core leaves dual core in the dust.

 

[AnastieByte]

Very helpful comments thanks all. Looks like 6600 wins