Ok,
I know most of you are all do-it-yourselfers so are probably against buying commercial rigs and if hardware is anything like software giants, you probably especially hate Dell
That said, I got an offer for their new XPS 630 which expires by tomorrow morning at 7am but it is almost a $500 savings so I am placing an order since the rig will cost pretty cheap and I don't have time or energy to put one together.
That said, my question: Is it worth the extra $950ish dollars to upgrade from the Q6600 to the QX6850.
Since I need to place my order tonight, I'm having trouble researching the differences in performance, especially on the gaming end.
I know the QX6850 should be faster but how much faster? I.e. worth the extra 1k? Part of my thinking is that this rig will hold me over for the next year or so until Intel releases their whole new shabang and next-gen video cards from NVidia are out and I can put together a real beast.
So in that case, probably better to pocket the $1k and save it for the real enthusiast rig but I wanted to be sure there isn't anything I'm missing.
Going with 4 gig and a 8800 GTX for now (yes I know they have a new card coming out in a month but...)
Thoughts?
I will check Tom's for more benchmarks in the mean time. Thanks!
I know most of you are all do-it-yourselfers so are probably against buying commercial rigs and if hardware is anything like software giants, you probably especially hate Dell
That said, I got an offer for their new XPS 630 which expires by tomorrow morning at 7am but it is almost a $500 savings so I am placing an order since the rig will cost pretty cheap and I don't have time or energy to put one together.
That said, my question: Is it worth the extra $950ish dollars to upgrade from the Q6600 to the QX6850.
Since I need to place my order tonight, I'm having trouble researching the differences in performance, especially on the gaming end.
I know the QX6850 should be faster but how much faster? I.e. worth the extra 1k? Part of my thinking is that this rig will hold me over for the next year or so until Intel releases their whole new shabang and next-gen video cards from NVidia are out and I can put together a real beast.
So in that case, probably better to pocket the $1k and save it for the real enthusiast rig but I wanted to be sure there isn't anything I'm missing.
Going with 4 gig and a 8800 GTX for now (yes I know they have a new card coming out in a month but...)
Thoughts?
I will check Tom's for more benchmarks in the mean time. Thanks!