hahaha i am also now thinking of Q6600 or Q9450 lor...but since i work in intel can get employee price..hehe but seriously, Q6600 is enough bang for the buck la...Q9450 is more towards best performance without considering the price factor...

erm....work in intel but using amd...

a lot of ppls will said duo core is good due to a lot of programs and game did not utilize all cores....
so d conclusion if dependent...
up to u in the end..

that was before i started working LOL...but back then AMD owns Intel's a$$ during the days of AMD 64 vs Intel's Prescott..too bad my MB just died so looking at a C2Q now...

then boleh kirim la proc satu...

sure wat i concern is which one can work better with GC like 4870?i mean in gaming performance, which one is better?
since e8500 is quite expensive than compare with q6600

IMHO, i will take Q6600 cuz highly OCable and for future usage and i'm using a lot of video and pictures editing...
i think Q6600 suits u if u in my field..

Wah, idle at 28C-32C and ambient temp of 24C. Where do you stay? What HSF and thermal paste are you using?

By the way, I am not too worried about the temp for the first 2 cores because when loaded by Prime95 (FFT) they only reached 67C max. The last 2 cores only hit 58-59C max.

However, I am really a bit sad because the proc is running at stock speed.

It seems to be a temp sensor problem to me, but it might be my thermal paste too (I have tried it so many times with the same result, so I don't think I am going to redo it).

guys... get the extreme edition....

Lol price is also very extreme

Well if TS knows/willing to/plan to OC then get Q6600 would be enough, but if wanna play stock then Q9450 if you have the cash. I am satisfied with mine

hmm....if u wana get, just take the e8400 is enuf already....e8500 is kinda more expensive by few more hundred bucks n u wont realise its difference with e8400 if u are planning to run those on stock speed....

and again, if u wana compare e8400 or e8500 with a q6600, i wud say q6600 is a bang for buck cos its a quad-core with decent speed n lets u do multitasking n heavy loads better... but for gaming, going for e8400 is better as the clock is higher compared to q6600 thus will reduce the bottlenecking of ur GC performance....n it is way easier to do high clocks when OCed compared to quad core...


hmm..have u tried reading those temps with software like REALTEMP?

but frankly speaking, zalman cpu cooler is not really that great in performance actually although it expensive


no point getting an extreme proc if u dont really know what it can do.... those are for hardcore OCer only

This post has been edited by tkh_1001: Jul 1 2008, 06:17 PM

Just to let u know..
My Q9450 manage to reach 3.5GHz stock vcore on P35-DS3 and 3.6GHz on Biostar I45 (didnt try higher)

P.S: No stress test is done.!

Those temps were recorded by RealTemp 2.60 .

This is the first time I bought an after-market HSF, so I have to confess that I bought that Zalman because of its look .

I believe my HSF for my next build will be a Xigmatek or Thermal Right.

But I am curious about why the temp of my last 2 cores seem to be normal.

he will know what i mean.

If you are going to do alot of video and picture editing, you should get q9450 cause it got extra instruction set for those video and picture editing enhancment.

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Added on July 2, 2008, 1:25 pmTS, I just got my new rig. Today I will test it out and let you know the result. My specs is :

Proc - q9450 2.66Ghz - on a deepcool alpha7
Mobo - Gigabyte X48-DQ6
RAM - Corsair XMS2 800Mhz (4-4-4-12) 2*2GB
GPU - Gigabyte 9600GT 512MB
PSU - Gigabyte ODIN Pro 550W
Case - Gigabyte i-Solo 210 Black
HDD - (don't know what brang) SATAII 7200RPM 500GB

Load vista is quite slow ( 15 sec ) but runs smoothly. Have to use custom heatsink because mobo got a chipset cooler that crash the ori heatsink to unable to fit. Performance today oni know cause at night only get computer.

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Added on July 2, 2008, 1:57 pm

Dude.... get your RAM into 800Mhz la.... Somemore you din OC...

Ya, his temp too high when at idle with that zalman fan... Mind tell what thermal paste you use?

This post has been edited by inventorfam2004: Jul 2 2008, 01:57 PM

Q6600 can OC higher than Q9450...

hahahaha i have ardy planned 4 the 1066 actually its just a matter when is the right time 2 get one

will intel processor drop price in next few months?
i mean drop alot,will Q9450 drop to RM7xx-RM8xx,Q6600 drop to RM5xx?

This post has been edited by reileong88: Jul 2 2008, 10:45 PM

.. lol dun scare me i am going to get a new rig...

i oso going to get a new rig,i scare price drop alot after i bougth