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woth waiting for the q6600?

AlexWolf

AlexWolf

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Im planning on buliding a new system after my exams (15th June) but im not sure if its worth waiting for the price cuts.
Im getting;
mobo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-124-AB
2gb geil ddr2 ram 800mhz
640mb 8800 gts
tuniq tower 120
antec 900
520w corsair psu

I know the q6600 wont perform any better than say an e6420 overclocked. But i use photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, ftp programs, itunes, msn usually all at the same time, and will be using premiere or sony vegas for movie editing this summer.

I really wanna upgrade as soon as i can and dont wanna wait a month to find out i have a cpu which oveclocks less and doesnt give me any advantage when using a lot of programs together.
Thanks for any help ;)
 
At the moment you're paying for the priviledge of quad core, rather than actually benefitting from it.

It would be money better spent on a dual core C2D for example, clock it up a bit and Robert's your mother's brother.

Unless all of those programs are doing a major task at the same time you won't notice at all. After all you can only have one window open at once.
 
Well it would be a question of waiting 5 weeks, I'm in the same sort of position but I've got my eye on the E6850.

You'll save time and money obviously going for the E6420, but if you're using those sort of applications I would have thought quad core would help further down the line. As new programs come out utilising quad core, games too etc...

It's up to you tbh, there is no definate answer.
 
Yep ive been eyeing the e6850 aswell,though it doesnt seem to be a very big step up from the other core 2 duo cpus, although it might be more overclockable than the recent e6600s.
I dont plan on upgrading too often so i think il go for the q6600 as it should become better and better as more programs use 4 cores. I doubt id be upgrading until the Nehalem quad cores become fairly cheap.
 
What you could do is it build the system based around an e2140 or e2160 (£50 - a steal) and then when the price cuts come in, sell that and buy a q6600. Then you get to play around with a 3GHz C2D, and end up with quad core without spending a fortune.
 
its still 50 quid when i could survive on my current system for one month ;) and i could use that 50 quid to improve something else on my final system..
Its tempting but imo theres no point spending 50 quid on something that il use for a month, unless i can sell it on fairly quickly..
 
Well, it wouldn't be. It would probably end up being a £10 after you sell, and you get its services for a month too :)
 
I think quad core will start becoming a bit more mainstream by the end of this year. Applications and games will become very quad core optimised and the ceo of Crytek said that a Crysis will fully use all 4 cores and will help improve phsyics in the game.

But for now its still abit useless.
 
Lonz said:
Well, it wouldn't be. It would probably end up being a £10 after you sell, and you get its services for a month too :)
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Exactly :) If after that you don't fancy quad core, or it is still too expensive after the price cut, then you still have a perfectly good system.
 
hey mate, ive decided to just buy an e6420 and overclock a bit, i dont think i would notice a difference really between an e6850/q6600/e6420 for what i do. while it would be nice to say i have a quad core pc, by july the 22nd it would maybe only a month til the q6700 is cheaper, so id never end up getting it :P i just want a system that works with source, and maybe a few new games this year ;)
Thanks for your advice, should be buying it next week.

On a side note, why has the 640mb leadtek 8800 gts gone up in price? :O
 
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