The quad or dual thread.. money for money..

Tatty_Two · Mar 27, 2008

VroomBang said:
Make the most of your poundies before you end up switching to euros soon!

aint gonna happen in my lifetime! and we quite often pay more than most of the EU for PC components!

trt740 · Mar 27, 2008

VroomBang said:
the other side of the story is we get to pay a premium in Euroland to get those CPU's. As an example, a Q6600 costs €185 (= $292), against $254 in the US, i.e. 15% more

plus everything American made gets cheaper.

VroomBang · Mar 29, 2008

phanbuey said:
i use my quad alot more than i thought i would... for gaming the e8400 is the bomb diggity, no doubt better than a Q6600, but for raw number crunching (F@H, Photoshop, EXCEL 2007 database work (which eats a SH*TlOAD of my time, stupid work) my quad is much, much quicker...

@ trog... it depends on your system and how u use it, games? the QX9### series is better b/c of cache, the q6600 beats out an e6850 because of cache even at lower speeds... the E8400 is a good chip for anything except for raw crunching, which is what my system spends the large majority of its time doing...

You dont NEED more cores for games (yet) you need them for POWAH, so that your macro finishes massaging the 600,000+ entry database of historical bond prices thats due tomorrow, and you can go dork around on TPU.

sorry, slightly off topic here, but I thought your mobo was limited to 1600MHz FSB? I've got a similar one, and was wondering if yours was running stable?

hat · Mar 29, 2008

There's no such thing as a mobo limited to 1600MHz FSB. Like an x38 board for example, it says 1600MHz FSB cause it officially supports it. Give me an x38 board and a C2D and I'll take it over 1600FSB, I promise

trt740 · Mar 29, 2008

I just dropped my Xeon e3110 in yesterday. I didn't get a great chip (okay chip but not 4.3 like I wanted) but I don't see a giant difference with this chip at 3.9ghz from my old Qx9650 at 4.0ghz. I will let ya know how it goes. I'm hitting the 15000 mark with a 8800gt in 3dmark06 and thats plenty fast. It seems to multitask very well. It seems just a slight bit less snappy in windows Xp. Still this chip was 600.00 less and I got a deal on the QX9650. For a 199.00 this chip is a very good deal, now if I can only get 10 more mghz it will be a average wolfdale lol.

phanbuey · Mar 30, 2008

VroomBang said:
sorry, slightly off topic here, but I thought your mobo was limited to 1600MHz FSB? I've got a similar one, and was wondering if yours was running stable?

mine is stable, its not limited... it's just picky with a quad. mine starts running into issues at 420 with the quad... I can get it to post at 450 but its not stable and crashes shortly thereafter (its not the chip either) each mobo is different and YMMV. Right now rock stable with +.2V on the NorthBridge.

Also i have a revision 2.0 , the revision 1.0's are the ones that had problems pushing Q6600's to/past 400 FSB... dual cores did not have this issue.

strick94u · Mar 30, 2008

Long as its not a 1 core I'm happy. remember those days?

trt740 · Mar 30, 2008

strick94u said:
Long as its not a 1 core I'm happy. remember those days?

yes but even some of those amd chips were pretty good multitasker

strick94u · Mar 30, 2008

Ture my old 3400+ laptop still fast enough for my wife :laugh:

her and her pogo.com gameing

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The quad or dual thread.. money for money..

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