q6600 vs e8500 benchmarks only

I don't want to start a debate on which is better. I've seen countless threads around the net about it. Q6600 is probably better all-around and in the future, but e8500 is better for games out now and other applications that don't utilize the 4 cores. Anyway, does anyone have any benchmarks of the two on games and other things. I want to see how much better the e8500 is on games out now.

TY

p.s. please don't start the fight lol...ive heard it all. benchmarks!

Tom's Interactive CPU Charts
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts [...] tml?p=1273

Here are some benchies, but unfortunately they don't OC the Q6600. Either one is a great gamer Overclocked, at stock speeds I'd rather be on the e8500. Notice, at high resolutions (typcially what you would be gaming at) the Q6600 has no problem keeping up with the GPU and matching the e8500. http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] /page5.asp

The fact of the matter is, more and more games are becoming multi-core optimized (Age Of Conan is one example). Right now I have to agree with you without a doubt the the E8500 performs better in games. The future will without a doubt completely transition to multi-core solutions. So sure, the E8500 performs better by about 10% on average in games now, BUT we are coming into an age where everything will soon be multi-core optimized and the quads will most definitely out perform the duos. So if you like a fast solution to increase your processing speed it games right now, Go for the E8500. If you want something that will deliver without a doubt, better results in the very near future and for years to come, Step up to the quad cores (def with Nehalem coming soon).


If and one disagrees, well ill pinch you a loaf salad right now and you can just eat IT! jk

Blah.. the only way to avoid a debate is not post anything about it. Just get what you want, whether its a Q6600 or E8400 or E8500. Or BE Phenom on a MB with a SB750, is not left to be out. Geesh.

If your not in to OC'ing.. well your limited.

If your into OC'ing.. then you have options.

If only that were true.

Software company A: "My product runs just fine as a single threaded program"
Software company B: "Why should I have to pay my expensive programmers to stop working & go back to learning to code programs for multi-threading?
Software company C: "How much extra will I earn if I make all those multi-threading changes? "

Ok so from my experience, I have had a q6600 for over a year now i usually oc it to 2.6 or 2.7 most i want to do with the stock cooler right now. My girlfriend just got a e8400, and in css it blows my cpu away. I have a q6600 2.6 with a 4870 512mb visiontek. She has a 3.0 wolfdale e8400 with a 4850 512mb and it beats the pants off of my computer. But one thing I have noticed is that I believe my computer runs windows 7 more smoothly. We both recently upgraded to windows 7. She gets a solid 130fps in css where as mine will drop down to 75? And she hits a max fps of 305 where i get a max of 250? I am going to upgrade to the 8500 and a 5870 as soon as possible. So from what I gather... windows 7 shows me that yes multicores even a q6600 not a true quad core has the ability to be better than a faster dual core. I hope we can just get a good gaming quad in the next year hopefully intel makes one because im not buying a new mobo mine supports crossfire and im sticking with it! They called me crazy, but I think im sitting pretty good. Btw F mushkin they sent me back replacement memory that wasnt even what i ordered, for 120 dollars and 2 months later it cost 30 bucks.... bastards.... OCZ for life. Gskeil is also dope.

why not just get a 30$ cooler and overclock your q6600

mine hit 3.6ghz easy before i backed it up to the everyday speed of 3.2ghz