Dual core or Quad core

e6600 is good value for money. It all depends on your budget.

Edit: Damn just looked at the Q6600 its not bad. I wish I knew about it earlier oh well. I'm running smooth at the moment.

Last edited by daffytag (2007-08-05 07:06:34)

2007-08-05 07:11:06

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7h3647h32in6: Member; +0|7199

If it's a gaming pc, what do you expect to do with 4 cores? I'm sure you won't be playing 4 games at one time or owning a game that is capable of taking advantage of all 4 cores...

4 cores for a gaming pc is excessive, and I don't mean excessive like buying a ferrari instead of a corvette, but excessive like packing your house full of massage chairs when only one is in front of the T.V. -_-

2007-08-05 07:17:42

#7

Mitch92uK: aka [DBS]Mitch92uK; +192|6711|United Kingdom

7h3647h32in6 wrote:
If it's a gaming pc, what do you expect to do with 4 cores? I'm sure you won't be playing 4 games at one time or owning a game that is capable of taking advantage of all 4 cores...

Soon enough, Alan Wake etc. ...

7h3647h32in6 wrote:
4 cores for a gaming pc is excessive, and I don't mean excessive like buying a ferrari instead of a corvette, but excessive like packing your house full of massage chairs when only one is in front of the T.V. -_-

Buying a house full of massage chairs, knowing there'll be a load of people round tonight to use them. Ie. knowing games will use quads in the not so distant future

2007-08-05 07:48:14

#8

ELITE-UK: Scratching my back; +170|6950|SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

OK, also ive never used a dual or quad core before..so when im playing a game..say crysis, can i designate all the 4 cores to play that one game?

2007-08-05 07:50:06

#9

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|6998

e6750 for now. get one of the new 45nm when they come out.

2007-08-05 07:50:28

#10

rubber.sex: Banned; +32|6588|London UK

ive got a Q6600 overclcoked @ 3.6GHz it owns all your crappy dual core

2007-08-05 07:50:43

#11

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6969|N. Ireland

Q6600 gets my vote

2007-08-05 07:51:55

#12

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|7057|SE London

ELITE-UK wrote:
OK, also ive never used a dual or quad core before..so when im playing a game..say crysis, can i designate all the 4 cores to play that one game?

It depends on the game. Crytek have made claims that Crysis will be optimised for multiple cores and have 64-bit extensions.

Supreme Commander is the only game I am aware of that currently takes full advantage of four cores.

Most games won't utilise all the cores. But forthcoming highly CPU intensive games are likely to be optimised for quad cores as Supreme Commander is.

2007-08-05 07:52:29

#13

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7025|UK

I'd wait, like, a month is it to the 45nm CPU's? For teh winzor

Martyn

2007-08-05 07:55:54

#14

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7214|The Hague, Netherlands

can't decide myself too, Q6600/E6850 same price here,

what are these 45nm?

https://bf3s.com/sigs/36eac2cb6af70a43508fd8d1c93d3201f4e23435.png

2007-08-05 07:57:56

#15

Mitch92uK: aka [DBS]Mitch92uK; +192|6711|United Kingdom

next-gen CPU's

2007-08-05 07:59:21

#16

TheDarkRaven: ATG's First Disciple; +263|7100|Birmingham, UK

^*AlphA*^ wrote:
can't decide myself too, Q6600/E6850 same price here,

what are these 45nm?

They will consume far less power, and radiate far less heat (requiring less cooling in the case).

2007-08-05 08:00:44

#17

~{TPP}~richoxon: I Want a New Duck; +43|7043|Up a tree

rubber.sex wrote:
ive got a Q6600 overclcoked @ 3.6GHz it owns all your crappy dual core

whats your fsb at ?

ps i got a QX6700 and it owns your crappy Q6600

Last edited by ~{TPP}~richoxon (2007-08-05 08:04:33)

2007-08-05 08:01:33

#18

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7025|UK

TheDarkRaven wrote:
^*AlphA*^ wrote:
can't decide myself too, Q6600/E6850 same price here,

what are these 45nm?
They will consume far less power, and radiate far less heat (requiring less cooling in the case).

Meaning higher clocks

I found this a while back, it gives a small description aswell, but its basically what TheDarkRaven said:

http://www.nordichardware.com/index.php … mp;id=6616

Martyn

2007-08-05 08:03:43

#19

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7214|The Hague, Netherlands

"The price? Like all Core 2 Extreme it will start at $999 when it arrives during the forth quarter."

yeah...

2007-08-05 08:10:20

#20

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7025|UK

^*AlphA*^ wrote:
"The price? Like all Core 2 Extreme it will start at $999 when it arrives during the forth quarter."

yeah...

Lol, that will be the flagship, they always cost a bomb, there will be other main stream chips out before then, they say Q4 for the quad, so I would assume there releasing the dualies first, and I doubt they will all cost $999

Martyn

2007-08-05 08:14:45

#21

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7319|Alberta, Canada

7h3647h32in6 wrote:
If it's a gaming pc, what do you expect to do with 4 cores? I'm sure you won't be playing 4 games at one time or owning a game that is capable of taking advantage of all 4 cores...

4 cores for a gaming pc is excessive, and I don't mean excessive like buying a ferrari instead of a corvette, but excessive like packing your house full of massage chairs when only one is in front of the T.V. -_-

In less than a year, you can be expecting games that will want to use at least 3 cores to run the game smoothly. 4 cores is always better than 2, even if you don't use all four cores.

Last edited by Ryan (2007-08-05 08:14:59)

2007-08-05 10:08:16

#22

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|7192|Riva, MD

If only they could optimize BF2 for multiple cores. Not that it would really matter to me since i'm years behind all of you in technology what with my Pentium 4. If I remember correctly, Lost Planet had optimization for mutliple cores but I could be thinking of the optimization for dual-GPUs, which I am positive that it had. Of course this was all in the demo.

2007-08-05 10:15:03

#23

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7182|67.222.138.85

Of course 4 cores will be better for games soon, but at the moment they don't even use two. If I were you, I would get the e6750 or something cheaper, and then wait for the real jump in cores with the next product line, I believe something like 60 cores.

2007-08-05 10:26:20

#24

The#1Spot: Member; +105|7015|byah

TheDarkRaven wrote:
^*AlphA*^ wrote:
can't decide myself too, Q6600/E6850 same price here,

what are these 45nm?
They will consume far less power, and radiate far less heat (requiring less cooling in the case).

Also longer sustained performance

2007-08-05 10:30:29

#25

rubber.sex: Banned; +32|6588|London UK

~{TPP}~richoxon wrote:
rubber.sex wrote:
ive got a Q6600 overclcoked @ 3.6GHz it owns all your crappy dual core
whats your fsb at ?

ps i got a QX6700 and it owns your crappy Q6600

1500 mine clocked higher than yours

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