Quote Originally Posted by funnyperson1 View Post
See I just dislike the notion that one has to be able to drop $270 on a CPU in the first place to be considered a "true enthusiast." I also don't feel the the Q6600 is the best bang for buck right now in the true sense of performance/price ratio. Yes its the best bang for buck out of high-midrange CPUs, but hardly the best overall unless you're only considering folding or 3D rendering.

If you ask me the whole concept of overclocking is born from the idea of paying less and getting more out of it. Right now we have great $60-80 chips like the Brisbanes and the E21XX series that when overclocked to their max get close to top end performance in games and other apps that most people here use. Thats the range that I play, because thats where I can afford to play in, and in that range imho AMD is the winner due to cheaper motherboards.
No one said you have to get a q6600,It is the best overall because they do 3.6-3.8ghz ON AIR over all.When overclocked they out do any other chip on the market and I hate to say this even the new Bacelonas that are about to come out.For an extra 125 dollars over what ever low end chip you can buy,you get the whole 4mg of cache and the extra 2 cores with the potential of running them up to 3.8 ghz on air.What are you going to say when intel drops them to 200 bucks when bacelona hits the stores?is 200 still to much?Forget brand names and look at the raw power of the q6600.It hands down smokes everything out there.Im not getting into a AMD vs INTEL debate.Only a fan boy would not buy a q6600.I love AMD to death and am a true fan at heart,but my money is going where the performance/bucks are and that is with intel right now.


I hate how you people keep bringing up the mother board prices.I paid 164 for my board last year(DFI 975x).That is exactly what I paid for my dfi nf4 ultra back in the day.