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June 24th, 2008, 04:43 PM | #1 |
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Q6600 or Q6700 (non-overclocked)
Friday, I'm making an upgrade from a lackluster non-OC E2160 and IGP to either a Q6600 or Q6700 and a EVGA non-OC 9600GT.
I can't overclock because I'm upgrading a OEM Compaq Geforce 7100/nForce 630i chipset. What do you think? non-overclockedwise, Q6600 or Q6700? Edit: I also have 2GB of PC2-6400 6-6-6-12 RAM on Vista 32bit, Do you recommend a 2x2GB (4GB) for my upgrade? |
June 24th, 2008, 06:45 PM | #2 |
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The clock rate on the Q6700 is about 10% higher than the Q6600. Personally, I wouldn't pay the extra $60 (or so) for that, but it really depends on your needs. Will an extra 10% boost in processor power make a real difference to what you are doing?
With Vista, going from 2GB to 4GB should make for a noticeable difference. |
June 24th, 2008, 08:09 PM | #3 |
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I have 2 plans: Gaming with Source engine games that only use one core, and rendering in Vegas/Capturing MJPEG.
If a game only uses one core, you'd still want that one core to be faster. The thing is about the ram upgrade, that would bump my total cost to $660 for more ram and $570 without the ram. (I need a better Corsair HX520 PSU too) Do I NEED the extra ram or is it optional? |
June 25th, 2008, 06:35 AM | #4 |
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I'm not running Vista yet (I avoid new versions of Windows until they've been out for awhile), but from what I gather you really do need 4 gigs of memory to get good performance out of a Vista system. That should give you more of a boost in performance than the difference between a Q6600 and Q6700.
BTW, you can get a Q6700 for a lot less than $570. Try Newegg. |
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Have you purchased your components yet?
I know that the intel 6 series quads are quality parts, but have you looked at the 9 series? The 9450 is a bit more money than the 6600 but has a higher clock speed, more cache and sucks down less power. Also it has SSE4 support which I'm told benefits video encoding tasks - but until I see benchmarks I'm not sold on that one just yet. |
July 6th, 2008, 08:45 PM | #7 |
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My 630i probably doesn't support 45nm chips. It's a Phoenix OEM BIOS so 45nm would be most likely not supported.
I got the upgrades and am happy with the Q6700, Dual-slot 9600GT, Corsair HX520 and Corsair 4GB RAM. I'll get a PCI (not PCI-e) SATA RAID as soon as I can get Cineform. |
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