Now that Quad Cores are affordable

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 23 Jul 2007, 23:09

Since the July 22nd price drop, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz is now affordable. But I still don't think it's worth bother to upgrade from my C2D E6400.

The Q6600 when OC'ed I've read runs at 80C under load. WTF? That is hot. I think that this is with stock cooling though. Maybe it because it is just two dual cores taped together (on same dye?) rather than a true processor with four cores.

No games use Quad core properly yet either aside from Supreme Commander (but I don't give a shit bout RTS), but still that deems hardly any difference. Remedy's upcoming Alan Wake will reportedly do some interesting things with QC, like assign different processing tasks (eg psychics) to certain cores.

Toge · Post by **Toge** » 23 Jul 2007, 23:46

Screw the Q6600, I'd rather buy the E6750!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 23 Jul 2007, 23:56

Both can be easily OC'ed to 3GHz+ and the Q6600 is the same price as an E6850. If I was buying a PC now, I'd easily get a Q6600.