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Anyone know of a good place that has review the new Q8200 and compared to Q6600. Early reports show that the Q6600 overclockers better, therefore performs better.
The Q8200 is slightly slower than the Q6600 stock. It's clocked 67MHz lower and only has half the L2 cache, but Intel did add some enhancements to the Yorkfields that make up for this, somewhat.
Anyway, the Q8200 has a 7.5 multiplier, while the Q6600 has a 9 multiplier. Therefore it's almost inevitable that you will reach a higher clock speed on the Q6600.
Overclock potential will depend on the CPU and also the motherboard, to get a 7.5x multi chip to 3.5GHz (more than enough) would require a FSB of 467MHz with a decent motherboard this is achievable my Gigabyte G33m-DS2R sits quite happily at 500+ FSB (on a duel).
I haven't checked the pricing, but if the Q6600 is cheaper then I would go for it. To get 3.6Ghz out of you would only need to ramp the FSB to 400. Mine runs pretty stable at 366 FSB - approx 3.3Ghz.
I agree with kungpo while I dont foresee any problems overclocking the Q8200 to mid 3GHz on a decent motherboard if the Q6600 is cheaper it probably makes more sense you get more cache but lose SSE4 and a bit of power efficiency.
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A review only one I have found so far comparing Q8200 and Q6600 Link from the look of it they are pretty evenly matched so which ever is cheapest definitely gets my vote, the other consideration if overclocking is how much voltage will you need to get to 3.5GHz (oh and its 7x multi not 7.5x) the processor is only specified up to 1.3625v where as the Q6600 can go up to 1.5v without voiding its warranty, I would personally say Q6600 is still the way to go.
Last edited by Webby; 29-09-2008 at 04:36 PM.
The Q6600 is more expensive than the E8200. A direct price match would be the E8500 and Q6600 at the prices listed on scan today. The E8200 is £25 cheaper than the Q6600.
I had to make the same decision last month and i went for the E8500 on the basis that although the Q6600 is easily clockable to 3Ghz the E8500 is higher than that out of the box and it is said to be fairly easily clockable to 4Ghz with high spec air cooling.
If you're going to be doing lots of video encoding or 3d modelling then definitely go for the quad core, otherwise, if you're mostly interested in gaming the dual core is noticeably faster according to all the real world benchmarks I've seen.
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Q6600 is the best all round cpu aviable, better then then Q8200 which is just a bidget cut down quad
It would probably help if we knew what the op mainly uses his pc for. The dual and the quad both have their strengths and weaknesses tbh
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Betty_Swallocks were talking about 2 quads here the Q6600 and the Q8200
Looney care to provide some evidence that the Q6600 is better than the Q8200 (not disagreeing just if your going to make a statement you should back it up with something) I realise that it has less cache, but is the newer 45nm architecture and has SSE4. The main advantage of the Q6600 is its higher multiplier and voltage tolerance.
Every day use, from simple web stuff to encoding DVDs, playing games etc etc .... Needs to be the better for doing day to day things.Originally Posted by Betty_Swallocks
I play modern games too.
Oh, sorry. My mistake.That'll teach me to skim through the forums and dive into a discussion.
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Wonder if going for the E8500 might be better choice for me. System is water cooled so over clocking is not a problem
If you will be overclocking anyway then the Q6600 will be your best bet in a review of CPUs at various speeds over at Legion Hardware http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=770&p=0 they show that (in the games they tested) quads seriously out muscle duels (when you have he GPU power of a 4870X2 at least
You could always keep an eye out for a Q6700 (NOT qx6700) on scan's today only. Thats what I did
Oh Q6600 on Aria for £117.44 + Delivery in case anybody is interested.
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=28356
Or £125 on Today Only in the super savers Scan Today Only
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