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E8400 vs Q6600 which is better?

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wiljamin   09-23-2009 at 11:23:16 PM

Howdy y'all,

I have both of these CPU's and need a little help. I have the E8400 in a new build I built back in Feb 09 and now have this Q6600 that I just got with a mobo I won on Ebay.
My Question is this CPu better than the e8400 I have installed. Thanks, Bt

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 11:24:52 PM

wiljamin wrote :

Howdy y'all,

I have both of these CPU's and need a little help. I have the E8400 in a new build I built back in Feb 09 and now have this Q6600 that I just got with a mobo I won on Ebay.
My Question is this CPu better than the e8400 I have installed. Thanks, Bt


See for yourself

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 11:26:10 PM

According to the chart the Q6600 wins

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rand_79   09-23-2009 at 11:29:34 PM

it depends.
I'd probably buy a better cooler and oc the q6600 to 3.2ghz or so= complete win

otherwise the 3ghz dualcore could be better in some cases than the stock
2.4ghz q6600

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Gulli   09-23-2009 at 11:34:07 PM

dunklegend wrote :

According to the chart the Q6600 wins



That's a synthetic benchmark that takes advantage of all cores, it cannot be compared with real gaming performance where the E8400 will win most of the time (still it's better to get a Q6600 and overclock it.)

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ulysses35   09-23-2009 at 11:35:17 PM

or overclock the E8400 :)

Dual core tends to work betetr for games due to higher clock frequency, that said there is nothing to stop you overclocking the Q6600 to make up the difference.

Multi tasking is always going to benefit from more cores

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 11:38:40 PM

wiljamin what are you going to do with the CPU?
For gaming use the E8400, otherwise I would use the Q6600.

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 11:41:42 PM

Gulli wrote :

That's a synthetic benchmark that takes advantage of all cores, it cannot be compared with real gaming performance where the E8400 will win most of the time (still it's better to get a Q6600 and overclock it.)



Yes I know, but still I like that they rate the CPUs overall, instead of using individual benchmarks in which one CPU can be better than the other.

This chart seems like a good way to see how good is a CPU all around.

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wiljamin   09-23-2009 at 11:57:18 PM

Thanks guys, I have two computers in my office that I use for everything plus gaming . The e8400 is on a gigabyte ep45 ud3p with a single hd4870 gigabyte video card and 8gb ddr2. I got the Q6600 on a fxf 790i sli ultra board I won on Ebay to upgrade the other machine.

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wiljamin   09-23-2009 at 11:59:53 PM

dunklegend wrote :

Yes I know, but still I like that they rate the CPUs overall, instead of using individual benchmarks in which one CPU can be better than the other.

This chart seems like a good way to see how good is a CPU all around.




What chart are you using?

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wiljamin   09-24-2009 at 12:01:54 AM

rand_79 wrote :

it depends.
I'd probably buy a better cooler and oc the q6600 to 3.2ghz or so= complete win

otherwise the 3ghz dualcore could be better in some cases than the stock
2.4ghz q6600





I have a darknight cooler on the E8400 now

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zipzoomflyhigh   09-24-2009 at 01:12:19 AM

Well for gaming, the E8400. It will overclock to a minimum of 4ghz which would absolutely crush the Q6600 at 3ghz in any game that only utilizes 2 cores, which is most games.

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dunklegend   09-24-2009 at 03:50:16 AM

dunklegend wrote :

See for yourself



wiljamin wrote :

What chart are you using?



This one: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

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