Dual or Quad Core

[Warpy1]

Again, thanks for all the advice just ordered the Q6600.

Good choice. Cheap and cheerful. You won't be disappointed with that,

[Blitzen]

Good choice. Cheap and cheerful. You won't be disappointed with that,

Nothing cheap about it.
They are £30+ more expesive now than this time last year.

BTW......the Q6600 was the right choice

[Warpy1]

I'm talking about the value aspect, not how much cheaper or more expensive it this. For the price you get a brilliant chip that overclocks really well. Great price for a quad.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Good thing I got my Q6600 secondhand for under £80!!

[Warpy1]

Good thing I got my Q6600 secondhand for under £80!!

Bargain! A friend of mine sold his E6600 last month for £80!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Bargain! A friend of mine sold his E6600 last month for £80!!

Got it in January. I was pretty surprised TBH to get it for this price. I managed to sell my E4500 for £60. Once I deducted the sale costs the upgrade only cost me £30!! This is what I had been planning do when I built my system just over two years ago. It seems the gamble paid off for me!!

[Warpy1]

Sometimes upgrading like this really pays off. If you can sell on ebay and buy on a forum you are likely to make a nice and easy upgrade path spending very little. I've done this a few times with my graphics cards. If you know when the price drops are due and you can sell just before - It's great

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Sometimes upgrading like this really pays off. If you can sell on ebay and buy on a forum you are likely to make a nice and easy upgrade path spending very little. I've done this a few times with my graphics cards. If you know when the price drops are due and you can sell just before - It's great

I got mine on Ebay!! I just had a word with the seller. Got a few things cheaper that way.

I even managed to get some rarer bits like a Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus which I do not use anymore.



I bought it more out of curiosity than anything else. Tried it on a madly overclocked 8500GT:

http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...es-8500gt.html

I went from 459mhz for the core to 715mhz and from 918mhz for the shaders to 1400mhz!! Even the GDDR2 could overclock from 800mhz to a 1000mhz!!

I wonder if it will suffer from certain heat related issues which afflicted the G84 and G86 chips??