Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs AMD A6-6400K

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Which one is better?
I'm getting the Q6600 delivered to me in a week or two and already have the 6400K.
Basically, which one is better for gaming. Mostly Minecraft.
 
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i have an xps 420 with the q6600 and it's paired with an r9-270 and 4 gb ram. it games rather well at 1080p with some of the eye candy turned off. kids play a lot of shooters on it and are not complaining.

i'd suspect minecraft will be very easy for the q6600 to handle with a decent gpu added in. concidering minecraft runs fine on an a8/10 apu, any decent budget gpu should be good enough. i went with the 270 since at the time it was the strongest gpu i could put in and run off the stock 375w psu. now i'd go higher with a 960 that only needed a 6 pin connection.
Depends. The Q6600 was released in 2007, while the A6 was released in 2013. Despite being 6 years newer, the Q6600 and A6 have similar performance per clock, because AMD's core designs are so far behind Intel's. The Q6600 has 4 lower clocked cores to the A6's 2 higher clocked cores. The Q6600 can probably get relatively close (3.2-3.6ghz) to the A6's clockspeeds with a good overclocking motherboard, but those are becoming relatively rare. The A6 will draw a fraction of the power the Q6600 needs, so it will be a much cooler and quieter chip.

My opinion: At stock speeds, I'd probably stick with the A6. If you can overclock the Q6600, I'd give that chip the nod for raw performance, but it will be a hot and power hungry system.

What motherboard do you have for the Q6600?
 

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i have an xps 420 with the q6600 and it's paired with an r9-270 and 4 gb ram. it games rather well at 1080p with some of the eye candy turned off. kids play a lot of shooters on it and are not complaining.

i'd suspect minecraft will be very easy for the q6600 to handle with a decent gpu added in. concidering minecraft runs fine on an a8/10 apu, any decent budget gpu should be good enough. i went with the 270 since at the time it was the strongest gpu i could put in and run off the stock 375w psu. now i'd go higher with a 960 that only needed a 6 pin connection.
 
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