worth upgrading my 2 core 6600

[rippling]

is it worth upgrading my 2 core to quad core since new games like bioshock are multi thread games?

 

[manic111]

No. Its still a great chip, especially at 3.78ghz!

 

[C64]

Nope not even supreme commander takes much advantage of a quad.
Wait for penryn or for that quad to be £100.

 

[Talrinys]

No there is probably no point at now, at least not if you don't have a truck of money in the backyard Penryn will bring some small improvements, and even then there will not be a huge bit of application support, so after Penryn you'll have some time to see what people are clocking them to, and time for the prices to fall, then you can get one
And the 5% extra or so per clock should also help quite a bit when you overclock the penryn

 

[rippling]

thanks guys

 

[Servo]

I upgraded from a E6600 to a Q6600, and yes it's darn worth it.

 

[truebluecfc]

Nope, it's not worth it if your main use is for gaming.

If you do a lot of multitasking or Video encoding it might be.

Saying that, If you can get a good price for your E6600, Quad Cores are so cheap you cant go wrong with them and your do no harm in upgrading to a Quad Core.

 

[Talrinys]

I upgraded from a E6600 to a Q6600, and yes it's darn worth it.

I wouldn't be able to justify the price, espically if i can't get to the same clock That's not saying i wouldn't be able to use it, i do a lot of folding, encode a huge load of music files each day, movie conversions etc., but for the primary task, gaming, there's just no real point right now. Bioshock at max uses 82% of my total CPU power with a C2D E6400 at 3.2GHZ, and that's the most technologically advanced game that's out there for me right now.

Espically with penryn with a few improvements coming, there's just no point for now unless you, like i said in my first post, have a lot of money just waiting to get spent

 

[Servo]

I wouldn't be able to justify the price, espically if i can't get to the same clock That's not saying i wouldn't be able to use it, i do a lot of folding, encode a huge load of music files each day, movie conversions etc., but for the primary task, gaming, there's just no real point right now. Bioshock at max uses 82% of my total CPU power with a C2D E6400 at 3.2GHZ, and that's the most technologically advanced game that's out there for me right now.

Espically with penryn with a few improvements coming, there's just no point for now unless you, like i said in my first post, have a lot of money just waiting to get spent

I got my G0 quad yesterday, and it's priming now @ 3.6 1.39 vcore. It's almost 8 hrs stable, with temps just below 60 on all four cores. Next I will go for 3.7-8, now tell me 4 cores at near your clock ain't worth it?

 

[Sniper123]

I got my G0 quad yesterday, and it's priming now @ 3.6 1.39 vcore. It's almost 8 hrs stable, with temps just below 60 on all four cores. Next I will go for 3.7-8, now tell me 4 cores at near your clock ain't worth it?

Nice! Mine should be arriving in the next couple of hours I take it thats under water?

 

[Servo]

Nice! Mine should be arriving in the next couple of hours I take it thats under water?

Yes mate, it's on water, but the computer is in a conseratory, so it's running alittle higher temps than it should.

I bet your excited?. I'm sure you will have some great fun overclocking it.
All I did first was to change my memory timings to 5.5.5.10, vcore to 1.45 in the bios (real 1.39) and move the fsb to 400, and I can safely say it's over 8hrs prime stable.

Good luck mate.