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Who's ditching Q6600 FOR q9450?

Nope. I'm not biting. I'm going to get a couple of second hand G0's for about £120 each instead. More folding points.
 
looking foward to c'ing how they perform first, then may take the plunge in a month or two;)
 
WJA96 said:
Nope - must be someone else you're thinking of. I'm getting an X38 and an X48 motherboard in the next few days, so they will go in those eventually.
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Are you going to do some comparisons for us? It will be interesting to see the difference between the two chipsets and DDR2/3.
 
Not long had my Q6600 and im not really fully it using it so no, no need for an upgrade as this system manages fine at everything I use it for, bigger e-peen would be nice for willy waving though.

Also this Q6600 only cost me £112, not bad for 3.6Ghz quad
 
I will wait for the next gen CPUs from Intel, a new mobo, more testing time and reinstalling, recustomising Vista is just not worth it at all for me even at 4Ghz and beyond. I can see a lot of people here have the time and resources for O/Cing and benchmarking but I don't. The gain from Q6600 overall is about 5-10% (except SSE4 and there's only a few programmes use that) is not enough.
 
My Q6600 seems to top out at 3.5GHz so I'm quite happy with that. I'll wait and see what people are getting with the Q9450s as I'm paying no attention to what the ES chips can do. If people hit 3.6GHz and over with ease then I'll make the jump.

Otherwise, if people are struggling to hit 3.6GHz then it's really not worth the hassle of me forking out for a new chip and selling my old one on. Also given that my luck is poor and I seem to get the fairly rubbish overclocking chips I'm not in any major rush.

So in short, I might but I'll wait to see how the retails do. It's just not worth the effort right now.
 
Phemo said:
My Q6600 seems to top out at 3.5GHz so I'm quite happy with that. I'll wait and see what people are getting with the Q9450s as I'm paying no attention to what the ES chips can do. If people hit 3.6GHz and over with ease then I'll make the jump.

Otherwise, if people are struggling to hit 3.6GHz then it's really not worth the hassle of me forking out for a new chip and selling my old one on. Also given that my luck is poor and I seem to get the fairly rubbish overclocking chips I'm not in any major rush.

So in short, I might but I'll wait to see how the retails do. It's just not worth the effort right now.
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I'm hoping to go straight in at 450FSB.
 
I aint ditching my Q6600 it does a happy 3.6ghz for me so no need to.

i wont upgrade my cpu again untill nevilem or what ever you call that 8core beast lol
 
weescott said:
That's an OT Q. :confused: Skulltrail S771, FB dims, limited qauntity, costs a small fortune.

Unless you mean Bonetrail? limited voltages for extreme overclocks.

:)
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Just saw they use expensive cpu's and memory only..

back OT

for someone like me coming from an AMD system who games and the occasional video editing, what do you recommend as my next upgrade? i have not had any luck whatsoever with overclocking.. faulty mem etc every replacement. But im not buying a high end chip cos they can be 500 quid easily
 
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