good upgrade from q6600

flearider · #1 25-10-2008, 17:52

so what would a good upgrade be from a q6600 (3.7ghz on watercooling)on a pk5 wi-fi board???
or would it be worth it ?

Clunk · #2 25-10-2008, 18:13

Not an awful lot at the moment.

Doesn't matter what board you use, 3.7GHz is a pretty good clock for a Q6600 and speed wise, for 24/7 use, not much will better it. If you only need dual core, you could try an E8600 at say 4GHz or above and that would speed things up a bit, but for number crunching/encoding etc, the quad will win.

I would wait and see what Nehalem brings, less than 3 weeks to wait and I think you will start to see some results being published next weekend/early next week.

affiliate13 · #3 25-10-2008, 18:33

If you can wait and are ok with spending the money needed to move to nehalem then i would say wait too.
If you dont want to replace the core components and have a £350+ish to spare then a Q9650 (E0) is a nice option and many will do 4/4.2Ghz.

However i dont think there will be £350 worth of perfomance increase.