Q6600 is worth it?
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godbrother
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The Q6600 is a great CPU (G0) but most games are really GPU dependent which ever way you want to look at it.
I just recently upgraded an old Pentium D 945 (yes you read that right) with a GT640 GPU and it works great for what it is. Plays battlefield 3 @ around 40fps on low-medium.
Seen as you have a much better CPU, definitely go for a GPU. (I mean a 9500GT, really? Lol. Even the Pentium D had a 8600GT.)
I just recently upgraded an old Pentium D 945 (yes you read that right) with a GT640 GPU and it works great for what it is. Plays battlefield 3 @ around 40fps on low-medium.
Seen as you have a much better CPU, definitely go for a GPU. (I mean a 9500GT, really? Lol. Even the Pentium D had a 8600GT.)
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I have a Q6600, and 6 mounts ago, I also had a geforce 8600 GT, which it's almost the same sh*t, i could barely could play on HD on dx9...
I bought a geforce GTS 250 (second hand, and also very cheap) and now I can play in Full HD on dx9.
Q6600 will buy you some time, it's a great CPU, but unfortunately it doesn't have SSE 4.1 and due to the lack of memory controler on die, many applications works much better on a i3 with only 2 cores, and MAINLY GAMES. This days it a total waste of money (and i'm writing you while i'm using one of those).
The graphic card is by far your best option. Don't waste more money on a socket 750, is already dead, an i5 it's almost twice as fast as a Q6600.
My advice would be: after getting a new graphic card, get a phenom II 950 or newer (FX, etc), or if you can afford, get an intel i5 3XXX (ivy bridge)..
I bought a geforce GTS 250 (second hand, and also very cheap) and now I can play in Full HD on dx9.
Q6600 will buy you some time, it's a great CPU, but unfortunately it doesn't have SSE 4.1 and due to the lack of memory controler on die, many applications works much better on a i3 with only 2 cores, and MAINLY GAMES. This days it a total waste of money (and i'm writing you while i'm using one of those).
The graphic card is by far your best option. Don't waste more money on a socket 750, is already dead, an i5 it's almost twice as fast as a Q6600.
My advice would be: after getting a new graphic card, get a phenom II 950 or newer (FX, etc), or if you can afford, get an intel i5 3XXX (ivy bridge)..
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You should have bought the GT640. You can pick one up these days for £39.99 brand new. GTS250 is also good but the GT640 is on par with it and only needs 70W's and has DX11.
I was looking at GTS250's on ebay to upgrade an old Pentium D system and they where mostly going for around £30 used. I checked again and found a bunch of new GT640's selling for just £10 more.
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godbrother :
You should have bought the GT640. You can pick one up these days for £39.99 brand new. GTS250 is also good but the GT640 is on par with it and only needs 70W's and has DX11.
I was looking at GTS250's on ebay to upgrade an old Pentium D system and they where mostly going for around £30 used. I checked again and found a bunch of new GT640's selling for just £10 more.
I bought it for less than that, at that time, i wanted to buy a GTX 550 TI (witch was my best option) at 130us dollars, but i bought this one at around 48us dollars.. so at that time it should be around 24~28 £ i guess..
back to the thread, go for the graphic card. Anything better than radeon 7750 (or similar nvidia), might start showing a bottleneck on your CPU when it comest to games.
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This is some test i did on some systems:
i compressed a VHD file (a windows server 2008 virtual hard disk 16GB aprox) using 7z, LZMA2, compression ULTRA, and dicctionary size=64MB. this are the times:
http://ark.intel.com/products/41316 (first gen i7 4C/8T)
intel i7 860 - 4GB using 8 threads time=28:12
http://ark.intel.com/products/52213 (second gen i7 4C/8T)
intel i7 2600 8GB using 8 threads time=21:12
intel i7 2600 8GB using 4 threads time=32:45
http://ark.intel.com/products/52231 (second gen i7 2C/4T)
intel i7 2620M 8GB using 4 threads time=45:59
http://ark.intel.com/products/29765 (Core 2 Quad 4C/4T)
intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 4GB using 4 threads time=50:57
7z is a highly parallel software that take advantage of all cores and the memory controller is very important. The laptop is faster than Q6600 with only 2 cores an lots of frequency...
don't I deserve to be granted best answer? LOL
i compressed a VHD file (a windows server 2008 virtual hard disk 16GB aprox) using 7z, LZMA2, compression ULTRA, and dicctionary size=64MB. this are the times:
http://ark.intel.com/products/41316 (first gen i7 4C/8T)
intel i7 860 - 4GB using 8 threads time=28:12
http://ark.intel.com/products/52213 (second gen i7 4C/8T)
intel i7 2600 8GB using 8 threads time=21:12
intel i7 2600 8GB using 4 threads time=32:45
http://ark.intel.com/products/52231 (second gen i7 2C/4T)
intel i7 2620M 8GB using 4 threads time=45:59
http://ark.intel.com/products/29765 (Core 2 Quad 4C/4T)
intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 4GB using 4 threads time=50:57
7z is a highly parallel software that take advantage of all cores and the memory controller is very important. The laptop is faster than Q6600 with only 2 cores an lots of frequency...
don't I deserve to be granted best answer? LOL
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