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Night-Stalker   04-24-2008 at 02:43:44 AM

I am on a tight budget, I have a P5K and i don't which cpu will give me best OC performance. Any advice?

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Evilonigiri   04-24-2008 at 02:55:13 AM
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If you're on a tight budget, the Q6600 will be more than enough. You can easily do 3.2GHz, which should be more than enough for whatever you do, probably.

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roadrunner197069   04-24-2008 at 03:02:04 AM
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Whats your budget and how do you use your system.

If not video editing and such a good ol e21xx series will OC 3.0-3.4 pretty easy, possibly more with a real good cooler. e2180 is probably the best buy on newegg right now. I have it running 3.0 stock cooling on 2 machines with P5K SE.

Q6700 and Q6600 will most likely hit the same FSB without extreme cooling.

Lets say you wanted 3.2 the q6600 will need a higher FSB which will actually give you better performance bandwidth overall.

I vote q6600 if you need video editing. If not the 21xx is the ticket.


Message edited by roadrunner197069 on 04-24-2008 at 03:08:33 AM
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Night-Stalker   04-24-2008 at 04:23:02 AM
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i already have a e2160 at 3.25ghz right now with stock cooler, can a q6600 go past 3.6 with a P5K and a TR Ultra-120 extreme?

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roadrunner197069   04-24-2008 at 04:28:12 AM
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It would be Iffy? Depends on the chip. If you dont multitask heavy or have apps that utilize 4 cores the upgrade is not going to be noticeable.

Maybe a new GPU, HDD, LCD would be a better investment this round.

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runswindows95   04-24-2008 at 04:30:34 AM
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I also agree with Roadrunner. Unless you really need a quad for heavy multitasking, stick with what you got.

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Night-Stalker   04-24-2008 at 05:00:34 AM
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I just need a cpu that will last me 2 years and i think a OC Q6600 will do the job.

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runswindows95   04-24-2008 at 05:14:39 AM
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Might as well save up for the new CPU lines coming out in January. Intel and AMD are launching new sockets and such.

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Night-Stalker   04-24-2008 at 05:20:22 AM
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i was going to but after this quad core i am probably gonna save up for a nice laptop for out of town studying.

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