Gaming CPU. Q6600 for £173?

Now, I have searched, and I know there are many threads, but none of them have really solved my problem.


At the moment I play Battlfield 2, Battlfield 2142, Test Drive Unlimited and Rainbow 6 Vegas. I am looking to playing Crysis, COD4, Frontlines Fuel of War and Assassins Creed.

I do Photoshop fairly regulary and I am often running Firefox, Xfire, MSN and a few other odd programs at the same time.




Now, I read PC Gamer and they say that a good mid range CPU is the E6600, so I was looking at them on the internet because its my birthday soon. I am not looking to do any overclocking, I am looking to spend under £200 and I dont want to have to upgrade for a good few years.

No, whilst lokoing for a cheap E6600 I found a amazing deal on a quad core, Q6600. "Save £110". I thought, "A quad core, for £173. Thats f*cking brilliant". Heres the link: http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.as [...] &InMerch=1





Which is the best CPU for me?

Ok thanks. Some more opinions are appreiciated

Get an E6850 to use as a place holder whilst you wait for a G0 Q6600 to be delivered.

It's working for me.

Ok thanks guys!

I shall get a Q6600

If you want to wait for it then one of the lower spec intel processors is better such as e4400 or w/e the cheapest is, they all overclock like mad.

Cool! Well, yeah, now I understand. Let us know when you switch to the Q6600, I wonder if it actually feels slower or faster. I've seen all these threads and benchmarks but nobody's ever actually used both so far.

Will do mate, although the one proviso I was given on borrowing this cpu was that I hand it back with both cores working perfectly so no OC'ing on pains of horrible death!

But @ standard clocks with all the power save features enabled it's quite a nippy little bugger and well worth thinking about for those who may be unsure of getting a Q6600 or those really patient souls who are waiting for Penryn.