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

[louie101086]

I had recently came acroos this review which contained lots of cpus but I was only focused on the E6850 and Q6600. From the review in some tests the E6850 beat out the Q6600. What I want everyone to do is look at review and tell me which one you would buy.





http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/...007/index.html

[adamsleath]

id be more interested in crysis, hl2 ep2 etc result for quad cores....
but im happy with 6850 right now

[StealthyFish]

I had recently came acroos this review which contained lots of cpus but I was only focused on the E6850 and Q6600. From the review in some tests the E6850 beat out the Q6600. What I want everyone to do is look at review and tell me which one you would buy.





http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/...007/index.html

I think I'm just going to go the cheaper of the two. or an E6420.

[louie101086]

i hear 6850 is a great cpu but i was just worried because i seen list of programs which utilize quad cores and i use those programs alot ex. nero also i seen that both cpus do 4ghz

[Tarowah]

The real question is which of the 2 are faster overclocked to 4Ghz =), I am going for the Q6600 G0 and I intend to clock it at 3600Mhz, as long as I get that I will be happy untill the X38 chipsets hit the market and then my PW5 DH will go to the wife and then the push for 4Ghz on the Q6600, I know it might not happen but there nothing wrong with aiming high.

[adamsleath]

well its easy get a quad g0 when they arrive; that is the sensible choice.
my next chip will be a yorkfield...if there is an affordable version of it.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i think they say the 1333 bus is about 1% faster....but..also consider the test which might not use all four cores and therefore the dual core might come out ahead.

[louie101086]

where will quad core g0's be available because i dont want to preorder

[DMH]

Yes there will be quads@G0 stepping and it seems they are looking good

[Ace-a-Rue]

where will quad core g0's be available because i dont want to preorder

tankguys.com takes preorders and they are very good....you can cancel but i think they will charge you a cancellation fee....you can email them to find out how much.

[louie101086]

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

[Brother Esau]

Another Homie fro New Jersey N.J Born and Raised

Patience is a aquired skill my friend and its better to wait and get guarenteed something then dump 3 Beans into the unknown!

[michaLcoughliN]

bah waiting.. been waiting for a month already :P

[Brother Esau]

Wait some more wood pecker

[TheGoat Eater]

me thinks I am getting both - it feels good I can say that now that I have a job again! LOL

[Emerica]

If I can get a G0 Q6600 for ~275 I think I will spring for it.

[LogAn'sRun]

do they both have the same heat dump or is the 6850 less of a heat generator?

[michaLcoughliN]

E6850 produces less heat by far

[LogAn'sRun]

ok, excuse me for getting all noobalicious here, but can you quantify 'by far'?
What are we talking about really in numbers? Thing is, I'll be running WC off of a pa160 which is almost comparable to a 120.2, so I don't have a lot of headroom for excess heat.

[heydo6]

pa160 should cool your q6600 only , but you might not get 4ghz . i guess it all depends on how many volts you need to get 4 ghz .

[chriskurn]

I'm in the same boat. I am leaning towards a Q6600 for now....I am thinking CRYSIS!

[louie101086]

I'm in the same boat. I am leaning towards a Q6600 for now....I am thinking CRYSIS!

yeah your right it is a crysis we cant get q6600 g0 sooner lol

[Solarfall]

ok, excuse me for getting all noobalicious here, but can you quantify 'by far'?
What are we talking about really in numbers? Thing is, I'll be running WC off of a pa160 which is almost comparable to a 120.2, so I don't have a lot of headroom for excess heat.

i don't know the exact numbers but intel quad core chips pump hell of a lot more heat than dual core cpu's..

[Silver Bullet]

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

[Magic Chief]

I wish there were more games that use multithreading so we could actually see the difference that it makes/doesn't make. In games like Lost Planet a quad is close to a higher clocked dual core outside but when the player moves into a cave the quad beats a dual even at a lower clock speed. This same information is shown specifically in Anandtech's review.