E8400 or Q6600 or Q9300 for pure gaming?

[ragingazn628]

which CPU should I get if I plan on just using the PC for gaming E8400 or Q6600 or Q9300?

 

[amdfangirl]

E8400 or Q6600...

Its quad if you want it to last longer and dual if you want more performance now

 

[Preclude]

E8400 or Q6600...

Its quad if you want it to last longer and dual if you want more performance now

Completely correct. I would also recommend reading this article http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ibuypower-game-computer,1952.html from the main page. It shows realistic performance differences between the 2 chips. Sure they are pretty overclocked but it's still relevant.

 

[Onus]

+1

 

[ragingazn628]

What do you mean the quad will last longer? Do you mean that in the future it will give much more performance than the E8400?

 

[scurvywombat]

Well, more apps and games will be optimized to take advantage of quad in the future.

 

[ragingazn628]

Q9300 or Q6600 which is better

 

[ragingazn628]

or even this CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103244

 

[kassler]

The need for an IMC and why the FSB is dead

The FSB seems to be a major bottleneck

 

[ragingazn628]

^ I have no idea what you meant

 

[kassler]

^ I have no idea what you meant

if you clock the FSB you can get 12 GB/s. That is the speed for DDR2-800.
PCI Express 2.0 x16 is 8 GB/s, two is 16 GB/s
Quad's on intel need to synchronize threads through the FSB also.

When games (the newest games are scaling well to more cores), the FSB on intel is the bottleneck.

 

[ragingazn628]

So I should get the Q6600?

 

[zenmaster]

if you clock the FSB you can get 12 GB/s. That is the speed for DDR2-800.
PCI Express 2.0 x16 is 8 GB/s, two is 16 GB/s
Quad's on intel need to synchronize threads through the FSB also.

When games (the newest games are scaling well to more cores), the FSB on intel is the bottleneck.

Actually, It's not a bottleneck.

If you read real-world memory performance tests, you see that there FSB adjustments have little impact in real world performance.

It takes massive increases to see very small increases in performance.

It may be a bottleneck in the future, but it is not currently.

 

[ragingazn628]

So I should get the Q6600?

 

[RizzyWho]

E8400 can reach 4Ghz on air.....
Q6600 can reach around 3.6-4GHZ on air/water

Id personaly get the Q6600, as i render, game, defrag, watch videos and general shizzle alot and more or less at the same time.

Get the Q6600, make sure its the SLACR version, less wattage, less heat, better overclock and also energy efficent!!!

kkthanksbye

 

[1971Rhino]

E8400

 

[pcgamer12]

E8400

 

[Wisecracker]

Completely correct. I would also recommend reading this article http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ibuypower-game-computer,1952.html from the main page. It shows realistic performance differences between the 2 chips. Sure they are pretty overclocked but it's still relevant.

Whoa.

That doesn't compare a q6600 with an e8400. It compares an e8400 with a $1,500 Core 2 Extreme QX9770 clocked at 3.52 GHz.

Not to mention 2x8800gtx and 780i for the e8400 versus 2x9800gtx, 790i, RAID bandwidth and faster ram for the QX9770.

Code will be optimized for SSE4 long before programmers totally rewrite software programs to run multiple parallel threads across four cores.

It would be much more fair to compare the CPUs on Tom's Charts:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2007/unreal-tournament-2004,398.html?p=1273%2C1267%2C1275


+1 for the e8400

 

[dagger]

Actually, you're wrong. Keep in mind, the e8400, as tested, is oced to 4ghz. That chart is only listing stock clock rate, not clock rate as tested.

Also, 9800gtx runs on the same g92 core and 128sp as 8800gts, which means it's about the same as 8800gtx. See benchmark:
http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/evga_geforce_9800_gtx/page_3.shtml

 

[1971Rhino]

Actually, you're wrong. Keep in mind, the e8400, as tested, is oced to 4ghz. That chart is only listing stock clock rate, not clock rate as tested.

Keep in mind the chart from the article lists the tested speeds below each of those chip's normal speeds.

The E8400 is a natural born OC'er.

 

[runswindows95]

e8400.

 

[dagger]

Here's something:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3127&p=4

 

[lucuis]

+1 for Q6600

 

[Grimmy]

Pure... Gaming?

Hmm... if this guy could get a dual socket to run 2 E8400.. then he'd have a quad... sorta.

+1 for as many GPU's he can sqeeze on the MB.

 

[dagger]

Pure... Gaming?

Hmm... if this guy could get a dual socket to run 2 E8400.. then he'd have a quad... sorta.

+1 for as many GPU's he can sqeeze on the MB.

Lol, or get 2 quads and you get an octo.

Multithreading is the future. The future is coming no matter what you do. A quad will at least stand a chance against octo core Nehalem, a dual does not stand a chance.