X6800 or QX6700 for gaming?

[danyjr]

Hello,

I'm willing to buy PC parts very soon to setup a gaming PC as a present for my younger brother.

Basically I'm stuck in choosing between these two CPUs:

Intel® Core® 2 Duo Quad-Core Extreme. (QX6700 (2.66GHz, 4X2MB, 1066FSB)

Intel® Core® 2 Duo. (X6800 (2.93GHz 4X4MB, 1066FSB)


PS: I am not doing any overclocking (don't shoot me!).

Thanks in advance

 

[danyjr]

Neither. Go for the E6850.

Hmmm...you're saying E6850 is better than X6800?

Them Quads are a waste of money.

Money isn't an issue for me tbh, performance on the other hand, is. I want a ZOMGWTF!!1 PC.

How old is your brother?

He is 18.

 

[danyjr]

The 6850 runs at 3ghz and the x6800 runs at 2.93ghz, so yes, it is better at stock.

How about the Quad? I remember someone told me it was a waste of money, but what about the performance?

 

[danyjr]

well, no ones pointed it out yet, Q6600 in a week or two is dropping to £170ish, its stock speed is MORE THAN ENOUGH for ANY game out there. you want to dump as much money as possible on graphics card. a 6Ghz quad core conroe with a 7900 will not outperform a 2Ghz dual core with a 8800gts, just won't happen.

theres no need to throw money away. in games you will not, just will not see a difference from a 2.4Ghz quad even if only 2 cores are being used in a game, to a 3Ghz conroe. 99.9999999999999999% games are limited by graphics card.

i said in another thread, screen first, then gfx card to match screen resolution, then any old cpu to go with it. but at £170 a quad core Q6600 will not only be fine now, but in the future as games use more and more power and multiple threads the extra two cores will spank the difference a higher clocked dual core could make. afaik most of the games out later in this year can use quad cores, and next year i'd expect pretty much all games from then on to be able to use quad cores, they still won't really "need" quad cores though tbh. but a Q6600 should be fine for any games for a good 2-3 years.

Well I'm getting 2x EN8800GTX 768MB (not sure about the RAM). Do you think getting the "Ultra" version of 8800GTX is worth the money or should I just go with the normal version?

 

[danyjr]

If you want such a good pc then why wont you overclock? Its easy to learn and youll be getting so much more power. You cant buy even close to the power that could be had via overclocking. Also, if you got money you can get water cooling and then overclock one of those beasts to the max

Well, this is why people say money goes to the pocket of idiots. Thanks for advice though, I'm really going to put overclocking into consideration

Ultras are a waste of money as they offer very little extra. Plus the G90s are ment to hit before xmas and are serposidly 2x the power of a G80.

Can't wait 5 months really, my bros b'day is on 25th so...