help me.. then .. what should i buy? Quad6600... or the new C2D E8400?? which one better? i want better.. and perfect.. dont care if more power usage or anything.. what i want to know which one good.. coz i doing heavy job... like adobephotoshop.. programing and so on...

then can somebody propose to me what motherboard brand is suitable for this core... coz for me..gigabyte is such!.. any others? TQ

i already used athlon64 3500 with gigabyte mother board SLI..always hang!!...

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Added on May 12, 2008, 8:52 pmthe prob is..  Quad 6600 only 2.40Ghz.. but C2D E8400 is 3.0GHz... for me E8400 is higher than Quad 6600... any ideal? which one good in term of performance? or Quad6600 much better?

get a dual and get a quad raptor raid 0 array.

i would assume the .BMP files are larger then 1gb

but seriously, quad doesnt have much use in everyday usage. unless you wanna run megui and convert stack of dvd's to h264 la.

in gaming, well, its never utilized to the max, most i see on rivatuner would be like say, 75% maximum per core on crysis and assasins creed.

tech3910, what has 65nm vs 45nm got to do with performance of the CPU?

Not really.Q6600 vs Q9450,Q6600 win in max oc Because 8x vs 9x multiplier

Wrong.
Dude, stop posting nuts again and again.

Q9450 losses to Q6600 in overclocking is because of low multiplier, not because of the cache.
Cache has nothing to do with overclocking.

u never tested it and u dare to give suggestion???    

even if u refering to q9300 specs u shud noe it still cant OC better than a q6600 right  
n hope u can enlighten me on how cache affects OC

and can you explain this?

what is that going to do with OCing????!!!  

that tech guy, coming from where? from the future? year 3910?

ah bro ar.... u compare highest end dual vs lowest end quad where got fair leh?

n then do u know lowest end e2140 G0 stepping can OC from stock 1.6ghz to 3.8ghz?

i guess those how many percent already ya?

visit overclockers united e2xx OCing thread if u dont believe

Stop talking crap already.
Dude, i don't want to say this but, you don't know anything. So stop acting like you know everything already.

Have you ever looked at the highest overclocked e6600?

Someone managed to overclock an E6600 to 4.5GHz, but the maximum a Q6600 can do is only 4GHz, and that's very rare.
While there are a lot of E6600 that can do 4GHz.

E6600 & Q6600 is on the same clock speed and they has the same number of multiplier and they have the same FSB and bus speed.

mostly u talking everything is Quad's kick ass ... because u're using Q6600 ?? .. i bet there still other Processor than can beat urz .. and even a dual-core ... I admit that i did not know anything about OC .. but at least i did not pretend like i know it ~ ~ perhaps i nid to learn more before making any assumptions 

wow , okay ~ great value is for someone with money la .. 
okok , just stop posting pointless thing okay 

it depends, if you run multi threaded programs, then of course there is an advantage, but there is not that many programs that run multi thread at the moment

what is max oc? for daily 24/7? i would give LYN forumers about say 3.4ghz max? its either due to heat or wall that they do not go higher

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Added on May 15, 2008, 1:16 am

yes boss 

respect the red tagged people, they usually whoop ass

Is it a cpu?

I wonder why the core can't past 3++ GHz at the factory

i've read news about intel bringing back the hyper threading technology in P4 days to its upcoming CPU production.quad core become virtual 8 cores.just wish more applications will make use of so many cores.