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Who's ditching Q6600 FOR q9450?

Hey all,

Some advice needed...

I have a humble c2d e6300 and lookin to upgrade it.

I have a Asus P35 P5K "Black Pearl" board and a Freezer Pro 7 cooler.

Should I get a q6600 GO (when they become a little cheaper) or get the
q9450?

I'll be getting a quad core, its just which.

Thx
 
Hmm so what are people basing all these assumptions that these new quads are going to do 3.6ghz easy?? Seems to me that the latest CPU's released by Intel (apart from the ES released to get everybody pressing "buy") haven't lived up to expectations and these quads with lower multi might not be that great unless you upgrade the rest of your system to match ... So no I will stick with my Q6600 at 3.2ghz as I cannot utilize that fully yet.
 
Will be sticking with Q6600s for now, until I've got the money to buy a Penryn quad, not loose a lot of money, and get a worthwhile performance boost with overclocking. Not going to bother if I don't have a very good chance of hitting 4GHz plus on it.
 
Dual core FSB and Quad Core FSB are 2 different things. I wouldn't expect X48 to be much/any better than X38 for overclocking.

The ES versions of these chips did UP TO 470FSB. Realistically you are talking anything up to 440-450 FSB. But, we will have to wait and see how the retail chips clock.
 
*Ponders whether to spend next student loan on a QX9650*

:D



Before anyone makes a comment on wasting student loans on things I don't need, I am on a degree doing 3d modelling involving lots of rendering :p
 
Well i'm hoping there is going to be loads of Q6600s on the MM when they come out, then i will finally be able to afford quad hehe
 
PinkFloyd said:
*Ponders whether to spend next student loan on a QX9650*

:D



Before anyone makes a comment on wasting student loans on things I don't need, I am on a degree doing 3d modelling involving lots of rendering :p
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Or you could spend the same the same amount you would on the QX to get another Q6600 and make a dedicated matx renderbox
 
easyrider said:
I am and looking forward to a faster PC
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How? I cant see the Q9450 doing more than 3.6GHZ even with a X48 & high spec ram which isnt going to be any faster than a 4GHZ Q6600 :)

Unless i see many of these hit 4GHZ without diein (like the duals on XS) then it will be Q6600 for me until the new sockets come along ;)
 
tatts said:
How? I cant see the Q9450 doing more than 3.6GHZ even with a X48 & high spec ram which isnt going to be any faster than a 4GHZ Q6600 :)

Unless i see many of these hit 4GHZ without diein (like the duals on XS) then it will be Q6600 for me until the new sockets come along ;)
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4ghz for Q6600 24/7 was rare.

SS4 instructions and the extra cache all make it worthwhile imo.
 
PinkFloyd said:
*Ponders whether to spend next student loan on a QX9650*

:D



Before anyone makes a comment on wasting student loans on things I don't need, I am on a degree doing 3d modelling involving lots of rendering :p
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I hadn't thought of that. My molecular modelling programmes are awful stressful on my CPU. Best excuse ever. And it's only a borderline lie!
 
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