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Q6600 or E8500

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astudentis

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Oct 7, 2007
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Hello Everyone,

What will be better for me for the long run?

I cant seem to decide which one would be better:
Q6600 - QUAD core 2.4GHz - 8Mb cache - 65nm processor
or
E8500 - DUAL core 3.16GHz - 6Mb cache - 45nm processor - more Energy efficient

If primary tasks to be done on the computer are:
- watching hidef movies, surfing the internet, using word,excel,ppt,; photoshop... multitasking these...and some gaming (ie crysis, needforspeed, etc.)...
 
yea the E8500 is in that range as well, however with 2 less cores, but faster speeds..runs cooler as well
 
I'd go with the dual at a faster clock.

If the apps you are using do not take advantage of all the cores the faster clock should run many apps better.
 
Depends. If you multitasi more, get the quad. If you dont, get the dual since the tasks you do do will be faster.
 
what if i do not have the option to overclock and i just use the factory set speeds, and just want to multi task things like:

MS office programs, browsing internet, listening to music/ watching tv (lets say high def) with tv tuner at the same time
 
dukebound85 said:
the q6600 is very easy to oc. ive read stable at 3 ghz per core with stock cooling is pretty common. something to think about at least
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Definitely possible I have owned two of them both the G0 stepping the old one I sold off ran 3GHz stock voltage (1.3v for the VID) my new one runs 3.15GHz stock voltage with a VID of 1.2125v so it runs at ~1.17v full load after the vdroop 1.04v idle using the C1E. So my vote is for the Q6600 it is a damn nice chip and if your going to keep the machine for any amount of time the extra cores will come in handy eventually.
 
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