Q6600 or E6850 for a non Overclocker?

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/s [...] i=3038&p=8

E6850

The choice for you is the e6850. I think it will work for you for more than a year before the game developers are really utilizing four cores effectively, which will give the new 45nm Penryn chips time to come down in price.

Im only playing cod2,titan quest and CC:TW atm,but I plan on getting the new MOH,Crysis,Cod4.

e6850. not enough progs will take advantage of quad core, especially games from this year. maybe future games, but with that power, your more than alright

Havent decided about the cpu yet .The graphic gard will be the 8800 GTS 640 probably.

I have a Q6600, never overclocked before but with a Thermaltake V1 cpu cooler, I got my 2.4 GHz up to 3.08 GHz very easily.

The lack of Clockspeed could always be addressed, but the lack of Cores can't be addressed as easily.

E6850 @ Stock = Fast Soldier with only one boot(Can't afford running shoes or another boot)

Q6600(G0 Stepping @ Stock)= Fast Solders with both feet with Running shoes (Just too lazy to go fast; unless you speed them up)

I'd go for the one with shoes and make them go faster

He said he's not into overclocking. Maybe read the first post before replying. He is just gaming and games right now are just starting to take advantage of dual cores, that's like 2 years after they were introduced. It would not surprise me at all if we didn't see a decent amount of games optimized for quads for another 2 years. Plus, even the one game that supprts quads(Supreme Commander) barely outperforms the E6850, whereas the E6850 will ouperform the Q6600 in every other game.
Maybe it's just me, but the shoes comparison made no sense.

totaly agreed ^^^ but if he only does gaming , then E6850

But if like any red blooded man. I'm sure he'd appreciate 10 windows streaming Porn on 4 Cores.
Just saying

Starman,

I am not going to fully answer this question as it has been asked again and again.

Again and again the same people have given their same advice on this.

Please look up things like:
+"supreme commander" +"dual core" or "+quad core"

+"Crysis" +"dual core" or quad core"

Just cut and paste the above lines into google and you should get your answer.

Really not trying to sound like an A$$ but this has been asked over and over again. And some of the people on here do NOT know what they are talking about. Some of the info provided above does not compute.

So I gave you the google lines so you can draw your own conclusions.

But the future of gaming which these people keep talking about has already come and the QUAD is actually ready for that future. But please do not take my word for it.

Also,

If you look up two threads started by me you will get some entirely technical data that supports why or why not to go Quad. I think from there you will also choose the Quad. But please do make up your own mind and do not let some on here influence you into a bad decision.

Canuck,

If you are NOT overclocking then the retail provided heat sink is more than enough. They are spec'd using that heat sink...

You should be fine. Should you decide to OC then I would definitely get something else a little more beefy...

I concur with ches111, I have an E6850 running at stock at the moment (placeholder for G0 Q6600) and idle temp has dropped as low as 25c with the stock cooler and got as high as 47c when running 3D '06 cpu test.