Q6600 or E6850 ? Best mobo for Q660? - Consolidated thread

[Emerica]

Maybe this help ...



"This graph is a lot more colorful than our previous ones because the decision just isn't that clear. If you look at the average, quad-core gains an advantage over dual-core over all of our benchmarks, but if you look at the tests themselves you'll see some trends. Encoding and 3D manipulation benchmarks have the quad-core CPU clearly ahead, while general usage and gaming benchmarks mostly favor the higher clocked dual-core E6850. So, which do you choose?

If you're strictly building a gaming box, you'll get more performance out of the dual-core E6850. However, if you do any encoding or 3D rendering at all, the quad-core Q6600 is a better buy. Our pick is the Q6600 and if you want to make up the performance difference you can always overclock to E6850 speeds, but the chip only makes sense if you're running apps that can take advantage of four cores. As the chart above illustrates, those applications are almost exclusively limited to video encoding and 3D rendering."
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and Massive Price Cuts

According to that explanation, if you overclock a Q6600 to 3.0ghz you will still have the performance of a E6850 but quad core. So in my mind wouldn't it be smarter to buy the Q6600 for the same price as the E6850 and overclock it to 3.0ghz+ which should be easy on air. And in the end have two extra cores. Or am I missing something?

[Terryb47]

The 6850 does have the potential to OC to 4ghz which is really sexy. (I guess years ago nobody would have thought we'd finally reach the 4ghz mark without extreme cooling) But I wanna see those kinda speeds achieved by the mass, not just by one or two persons.

Right now I prefer the quadcore because I'm really into encoding and don't play games anymore, I do hope to see a realtime 4Ghz dualcore vs a 3Ghz quadcore dvd encoding session.

[David9799]

Im looking to buy a Asus board for a Q6600 what chipset will be best for it to OC on air? 680i or P35?

Untill the price drops i will have a E6600 in it.

If i where to go buy the OC's on futuremark the StrikerExtreme seems to do the best.

[Brother Esau]

Thats Funny My P4 670 is 3.8GHZ @Stock

[12Iceman]

Both the Q6600 and the E6850 have the same 9X multi, just different FSB speeds (1066Mhz vs. 1333MHz). The Q6600 is also supposed to be switching over to the new G0 stepping that the E6850 uses. It seems to me like as long as you keep the heat in check and and provide enough power, you could easily get the Q6600 up to E6850 speeds just by upping it to the equivalent 1333MHz FSB. From there on, wouldn't they pretty much have the same overclocking potential as well? Add in the fact that the Q6600 has two extra CPU cores and it seems like the hands down winner in my opinion.

[louie101086]

i would love to own a q6600 g0 but when prices drop many people will still be selling old stock mixed with new so the chances of getting a g0 are 50/50 and those are odds i hate

[louie101086]

another review damn its getting to close to call

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200..._e6850_e6750/1

[Ace-a-Rue]

listen...the only way you will know that you are getting a "G0" stepping is to sign up with a online retail like Tankguys.

[ChaosMinionX]

listen...the only way you will know that you are getting a "G0" stepping is to sign up with a online retail like Tankguys.

QFT

[louie101086]

qft??? whats that mean

[ChaosMinionX]

Quoted for Truth.....Sorry for my WoW lingo carrying over to stuff

[GripS]

listen...the only way you will know that you are getting a "G0" stepping is to sign up with a online retail like Tankguys.

Paid for my spot a week ago. They will be 'G0' stepping or you get a refund. Might be paying a little bit more. But at least you know what you are gettting.

[Rilla927]

GripS,

I totally I agree! I pre-ordered mine on July 3 and glad I did.

[Solarfall]

if i were you i would get a p35 board.. i can say this from experience when overclocking, p35 kicks nforce680i's arse.
with my evga mobo the max fsb is 490 when with my asus p5k deluxe the max fsb is 550.. do i need to say more

[skootyloops]

Eva2000 was able to reach 500FSB with a Q6600 on a P5K Deluxe. Simply if you need SLI then get the 680i. Otherwise pickup a P35 motherboard.

They are great, I have one and its better then my old P5N-e SLi.

[safan80]

I'd say p35

[NightRaven]

680i isnt all that bad guess its abt luck.

then again majority agrees that p35 clocks better for quad and i agree.

[Aivas47a]

Definitely p35 for overclocking a q6600. Many of the 680 boards can't overclock a quad core past 330-360 fsb (though there are reports of 400+ fsb for quad core on new revision evga boards). With p35 you'll easily see 450 or likely much more (again, talking quadcore).

[billdavis]

p35 is better unless your going sli then your stuck with 680i and ive been through over 5 680i boards

so im in the process of selling my 680i's cause i hate them!

[GAR]

my 680i works fine, i have had an asus p5k deluxe, and i returned it and went back to my trusty old 680i, love this board.

[Terryb47]

I wish we had those kinda services over here (in the Netherlands), I know a german shop that does handpicked/pretested cpu's - but he's overcharging by at least $50.

I'll probably wait a month or two before getting my Q6600

[louie101086]

i am know actually considering buying a cheap g0 cheap and just waiting til the winter when penryn comes out. what u guys think about that????

[T2k]

the only problem with tank guys is that they will get cpus late july mid august thats to long for me

They get it as soon as it's available - how do you mean it's too long for you? Are you going to complain at Intel?
You're not making sense.

[k0nsl]

I am buying a Q6600 - reason? Its cheaper and I can probably overclock it to E6850 speeds or very close.

[T2k]

Paid for my spot a week ago. They will be 'G0' stepping or you get a refund. Might be paying a little bit more. But at least you know what you are gettting.

Exactly. I paid a bit before you but I don't mind as I know I'll get what I wanted (even if it takes an extra 2-3 days for them to sort the G0s out of the rest.)