Q6600
Hey i'm looking at putting together a new rig which is going to be used for studies, My freind has a Intel Q6600 LGA 775 he is willing to depart for £100, Is this chip any good? and worth the price?
Ive noticed on amazon and stuff that this chip is still like £145 to buy brand new why is this? even though it's been out a few years
Thanks
Ive noticed on amazon and stuff that this chip is still like £145 to buy brand new why is this? even though it's been out a few years
Thanks
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
I also wouldn't classify 8MB of cache as "monster" or significant in any way. Because it isn't. Cache (L2 especially) makes little difference in performance. Cache helps Intel justify higher price tags more than anything.
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
This is the motherboard I have, What chip would you I go for? I want it to at least run Windows 7 and Server 2k8 in VM. I'm not a games player just want something which will be future proof for a bit and allow me to get hands on
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
i7 and i7 v2 have come out since then and the AMD AM3 socket is really flexible on processor upgrades.
For a cheaper price the Q6600 could be a happy medium.
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It think you will like it. I ran at 8 initially before bumping up to 16 to get the most I could out of the system. Just be sure to put in the right kind of HDDs and you'll do fine.
Then you haven't played any modern games like Bad Company 2, Rift, Crysis 2 or Metro 2033. Or you're playing on a smaller resolution.
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You have me there, I haven't played any of those. Though I have got Crysis 2, time has been against me. I'll give it a go and report back.
So long as you have enough memory and a system that isn't really bottlenecked with a lack of memory or a decent GPU, you can play them well. Metro 2033 is poorly coded and very inefficient with system resources so it doesn't really play well on a lot of systems and it's the only title I couldn't play well on my system from that list.
Memory has little effect on most games beyond 4GB (which has been the sweet spot for years now). Filling your computer up with memory is just silly if you don't utilize it with things like Adobe or virtualization software.
The whole point of having more memory is that applications won't have to share it, therefore allowing them to run more efficiently by not having to swap resources. ANYONE who works as an IT professional should know that is one of the great benefits of a 64-bit operating system. You won't find people running a gaming PC with less than 8GB unless they are cheap/poor or don't know any better because having 8GB gives any 32-bit gaming application a full space of memory to use in most cases. 12-16GB is the sweet spot for a modern PC because that gives you plenty of memory to game and do other things simultaneously. I run with at least 16GB on all my desktops and 8GB on all my notebooks which gives me far better performance than a system with only 4GB.
Doesn't affect framerate. And there are no full 64bit games. At best, it shaves your load times by a hair. ANYONE that's actually played PC games for years should know this.
Here's a test
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There are plenty of testimonials from people allover the net who will back them up.
If you can find something to prove otherwise, I'd like to see it.
I run 2x q6600s at home since 2007, one on the EVGA 650sli board, the other on an asus p5n-d. I bought them as i built a dozen at work on asus commando boards and thought they were very stable. I also run one as a duplicator with 8 burners on it. As the years pass i contemplate on upgrading them... but they sit at 3.2ghz with h-50s keeping them cool. Ive done dragon age, then dragon age II just fine though the graphics had to be tuned down some as I still run the old 8800gts. CPU's taking a dent, but not much. I can run multiple XP VMs w/ an server VM with little ssues in performance. I've thrown any OS from linux to any flavor of Windows client/server OS on it just fine.
I also run a pair of np9280's (SAGER) (i7-960s) w/ RAM maxxed out (12gb). Theres a nice very noticeable jump in performance; like, in the time i compressed a 20gb file (max compression) on the q6600 on a pair raid0'd 10,000rpm raptors, i did it more than twice on the i7 (im sure the pair of intel SSDs in raid0 helped). VMs run quite a bit better here of course. DAII was almost perfect, if it were not for the graphics card (mobile version of the 8800gts). But hey, these are workstations :P
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It's really all about your video card. (I have a GTX 260)