Does anyone own an E6600 anymore?

Huxley2k7 · May 7, 2008

It just seems like everyone has the Q6600 and i feel like i must be missing out! :cry:

Are people still happy with their E6600's? We're talking recent-games, high end stuff, is your E6600 holding out? I know i've been doing just fine with mine, but recently just felt as though I'm missing out since the majority of people with a Duel-Core processor have the Q series!

:toast:

Snake05 · May 7, 2008

I have a Q6600, but it is certainly not a necessity. The Q's are quad's, and a good budget quad at that, so that is why many people are getting the Q's. A cheaper transition cpu. For gaming, dual core's are all that is necessary. E6600 should do decent with a good overclock, but still may bottleneck with you get into the upper end games, such as Crysis. What is yours clocked to?

Solaris17 · May 7, 2008

no e6600 i own an e6400 to poor to afford one stage up....but at 3.6 ghz it doesnt seem to be able to get enough

Oliver_FF · May 7, 2008

I've got my e6600 still, and it's still chugging away nicely at 3.2GHz 400x8 all day every day.

I don't see the point in spending the money for a quad when the only differences i'll notice are:
1. Higher PCMark05 score :eek:

2. Higher temperatures

Point 1 is sorely desired haha

Huxley2k7 · May 7, 2008

Snake05 said:
I have a Q6600, but it is certainly not a necessity. The Q's are quad's, and a good budget quad at that, so that is why many people are getting the Q's. A cheaper transition cpu. For gaming, dual core's are all that is necessary. E6600 should do decent with a good overclock, but still may bottleneck with you get into the upper end games, such as Crysis. What is yours clocked to?

Yeah this is why i didn't go for a Q series in the first place!

Mine is at stock-settings, believe it or not, i have NEVER touched CPU overclocking. Wouldn't know where to start! Something tells me i may need to look into it at some point in the future though. What makes you think it would bottle-neck me if i got Crysis? :eek:

nflesher87 · May 7, 2008

Oliver_FF said:
I've got my e6600 still, and it's still chugging away nicely at 3.2GHz 400x8 all day every day.

I don't see the point in spending the money for a quad when the only differences i'll notice are:
1. Higher PCMark05 score
2. Higher temperatures

Point 1 is sorely desired haha

don't forget much higher 3DMark06 score

Solaris17 · May 7, 2008

dude i could help if you want...i came from years and YEARS of experiance OC'ing AMD brought a brisbane from 1.9ghz to 3122 6400+ to 3.4 etc...so i got my rig my new one maybe a week ago give or take a day or 2 and i didnt know jack never had an intel rig that could OC last one i owned was a P3 laptop....but its sooo easy and the 6xxx series take the mhz like its candy.

das müffin mann · May 7, 2008

i didnt have alot of money so i went with the e6600 and i must say i love the thing, it was cheap and i have it running at 3.2 stable all day on stock cooling! i get about 200-300 ish frames in css and hl2 about 150ish in tf2 35 if im lucky in crysis assassins creed and cod4 im not sure about the frames but i can handle them no problem

tbh i think the for the most part why people go quad are because:
they think the more cores you have there will be much better performance (kinda true)
bigger e-penis
need it for vid, photo, or music editing

Hawk1 · May 7, 2008

E6600 still here at 3.6Ghz and loving it. I dont do anything currently to warrant getting a Quad CPU, and depending on future games/apps demands, I may even skip Nehalem also. It comes down to what your needs are. If your encoding or running multiple apps or multi threaded apps/games, a Quad would help. Otherwise, not worth it.

Huxley2k7 · May 7, 2008

It's good to see others with an E6600 - seems like everyones got it overclocked except me! I'm still running at 2.4Ghz. Looks like your getting a lot of juice out of it too!

Solaris17 said:
dude i could help if you want...i came from years and YEARS of experiance OC'ing AMD brought a brisbane from 1.9ghz to 3122 6400+ to 3.4 etc...so i got my rig my new one maybe a week ago give or take a day or 2 and i didnt know jack never had an intel rig that could OC last one i owned was a P3 laptop....but its sooo easy and the 6xxx series take the mhz like its candy.

I may have to take you up on that sometime mate, thanks for the offer!

Dr. Spankenstein · May 7, 2008

I was running mine @ 3.8 (1.55V) until a couple of weeks ago. It was/is an awesome chip. It was even the old stepping.

You can see my results in Crysis on the first post on this thread. Not to shabby, I'd say!

Solaris17 · May 7, 2008

Huxley2k7 said:
It's good to see others with an E6600 - seems like everyones got it overclocked except me! I'm still running at 2.4Ghz. Looks like your getting a lot of juice out of it too!

I may have to take you up on that sometime mate, thanks for the offer!

go for it it will be no problem

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