I have a Quad Core bragging thread

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 23, 2008, 04:03 PM

man I love the Q6600. It's been over a year it rips through everything like a monster (except Crysis, oh Crysis). I invested in one because I know processors won't be getting faster, they will get more cores. Software and games now utilize multicores better, and everyday life is faster on the comp when you multi task. Overall, very satisfied with my setup.

Brag that you have a quadcore in this thread, because people will continually persist to say "it's useless". But when your computer runs everything fine another year and half down the line and their dual core won't, you will be the king. I don't know....i'm really bored......

Zardon · Aug 23, 2008, 04:16 PM

moved from off topic

Congrats, you probably bought yourself one of the best value processors of all time .........

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 23, 2008, 04:17 PM

i mean for office work, its pretty useless. but its great for recoding, media centers and heavy multi tasking. only thing that runs like a piece of crap is iTunes, and that is because iTunes is the ultimate piece of shit.

Judas · Aug 23, 2008, 04:23 PM

exactly..... in anything but internet surfing and word documents for standard home office situations... quad core is the best solution... and the q6600 is the BEST damn cpu out there for it's' value. People boast about the dual cores that are clocked higher outperforming the quad core..... The differences are marginal at best and will only drop like crazy on the dual core where as the quad core will litterly speed up or hold it's own for years....

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 23, 2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas

exactly..... in anything but internet surfing and word documents for standard home office situations... quad core is the best solution... and the q6600 is the BEST damn cpu out there for it's' value. People boast about the dual cores that are clocked higher outperforming the quad core..... The differences are marginal at best and will only drop like crazy on the dual core where as the quad core will litterly speed up or hold it's own for years....

geeky as this sounds... try recoding 3 videos (I used red kawa ps3 video9) and playing WoW with no framerate drops. Or for fun, record tv, run a UT3 engine game and run WoW and get 60fps. hahaha...oh all on precious Vista.

sorry, geeky but I had to say it.

cozumel · Aug 23, 2008, 04:33 PM

Geek!!!

Grats though, on your new toy.

Judas · Aug 23, 2008, 04:53 PM

well precisely..

try running 8 intesive tasks.... you can do it....

vs 8 on the dual core to experience omg uselessness..

i remember running counter strike source, UT2004, LineageII and a few other dozen things on the 4400+ x2 when i got it and was stoked that it worked exceptionally well...

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 23, 2008, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by cozumel

Geek!!!

Grats though, on your new toy.

i've had it for over a year, its old now hahaha

cozumel · Aug 23, 2008, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BiGBrOwNPimpsta

i've had it for over a year, its old now hahaha

My god!! A year? I thought you must have just bought it. You really were bored weren't you...

BlueMak · Aug 23, 2008, 05:09 PM

What's the point of

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record tv, run a UT3 engine game and run WoW and get 60fps.

?

I can understand record tv and play one 3D game, but why all three?

I am not saying the Q6600 is not good, it's great, just trying to figure out why the above. Or similar.

Judas · Aug 23, 2008, 05:11 PM

sitting in wow just ready afk.....

playing UT3 for kicks...and recording a show that you'll watch later...

it's not uncommon.

PangingJr · Aug 23, 2008, 08:56 PM

Q6600 is indeed a very good value processor for it can perform.
now this CPU's cost exactly half the price of a Q9550. how much did a Q6600 cost at it's first release? i recall that its price was pretty high.

cozumel · Aug 23, 2008, 09:31 PM

Yeah the Q6600 certainly dropped in price quickly.

I just checked. And according to what I'm reading the B3 was released January 7 2007 at USD851. The G0 was released April 20 2007 (my birthday) at USD266. And the price has continued to drop further.

CJLMTLCA · Aug 24, 2008, 12:26 AM

I like my Q6600. Everytime someone brings up the old "yah, but dude, games don't need 4 cores..." I say "uhhh, ever hear of multitasking????"

I too record tv programs, encode with Vegas, have a few sidebar gadgets running, security software, multiple browsers, office apps, and who knows how many other things open and finaly fireing up a game.

Do you guys find the HD the weakest link in the system? I was recording a tv show while playing a game a while back and the recording had stuttering in it. I have Vista, apps and games on my 1st HD and the pagefile, internet cache/downloads, video recording/editing and all my personal files on multiple partitions on the 2nd HD.

I wonder what performance you'd get with multiple SSD drives only in the system.

RobertBruce · Aug 24, 2008, 12:39 AM

I got a Q9450 and I love it. Sure I havent found all that many programs that can use all four cores, but when it does it just blows everything out of the water. I seem to have issues so its staying at stock for now....

**dj_stick** · Aug 24, 2008, 04:13 AM

mmm quadcore... i have two of 'em

2x E5462 xeons

BabylenTatarsky · Aug 24, 2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by RobertBruce

I got a Q9450 and I love it. Sure I havent found all that many programs that can use all four cores, but when it does it just blows everything out of the water. I seem to have issues so its staying at stock for now....

How much did it set you back?

I'd love a QX9770.

swimtech · Aug 24, 2008, 08:03 PM

Yes, I have one - but almost didn't...

It was the last thing I decided upon, 'cause the market was in so much flux. The 9x50 series quads had just come out, and the 8x00 series dual cores were fast and relatively cheap. I wanted a speed demon of a machine and the dual core had that. What settled it?

I had to think different - to take a line from a famous manufacturer who also had a sea change in their hardware the past several years...

I had to stop thinking about model numbers and the given specs from Intel for their processors, and look at what the top end enthusiasts were able to pull from their hardware, without undue effort or extreme modification. Nearly every motherboard for the past three years is able to overclock an Intel processor, some better than others, but a large selection of those were able to hit about a 400Mhz front side bus speed with ease. From there, all I had to do was purchase a processor with a multiplier that would give me the speed I wanted at that bus speed.

Heck, at the time, I could have gotten an 8400 dual core for $190 and run it 3.6Ghz (huge speed...), or two in the same package (less a bit of cache...) with the Q6600 and run it at 3.2 (reading told me I'd have to reduce the multi to assure a stable OC at 400Mhz without extra cooling) for just $30 more. Wow, the second dual core processor is basically free! Plus, a 3.2 Ghz quad (stock) at the time cost $1300. A Ferrari for the price of a Corolla. OK, that's a no brainer.

A 3.2Ghz quad would run games as well a 3.6 dual (practically - 100fps looks the same as 130fps, really...), and everything else better - much better - now - and should do nothing but improve with the quads in the future. Benchmarks all over the net show it.

I was done - it works after actually building it (with an AMD/DH GOODY!) - and I'm one very happy (and proud - hell yeah!) camper!

RobertBruce · Aug 24, 2008, 11:05 PM

349.99 back at the end of april. they were damn hard to find too. But I think its a bit of a crapshoot that I lost. I may be doing something wrong as i'm used to AMD systems but the bottom line is I havent been able to overclock this, I've been trying for two days almost constantly. I thoought this would go to 3.2 easily!

PangingJr · Aug 25, 2008, 07:09 AM

almost forget that at this time around there is another cheap Intel quad-core that is already in retail stores, the Q8200,
i'm wondering anyone has an experience with this CPU, and can verify with CPU-Z or Everest that this CPU is an R0 stepping just like Q9400?
as far as i can see there is no sSpec info on this CPU at Intel's site at this time.

Callandor · Aug 25, 2008, 03:02 PM

Just got a Q9450 two days ago, one of the fastners on the stock cooler was jamming up so going to get another cooler today (the Asus Amazing I'm 95% sure) and fire it up later today. I program, game, encode and do alot of stuff that requires multi-tasking and it's o/cing capability is pretty awsome, and future wise quad cores are now the way to go. Once I get my 4870X2 hopefully later this week (Diamond or Sapphire, not sure for now) and slot it in then the games will well and truly begin.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 26, 2008, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Callandor

Just got a Q9450 two days ago, one of the fastners on the stock cooler was jamming up so going to get another cooler today (the Asus Amazing I'm 95% sure) and fire it up later today. I program, game, encode and do alot of stuff that requires multi-tasking and it's o/cing capability is pretty awsome, and future wise quad cores are now the way to go. Once I get my 4870X2 hopefully later this week (Diamond or Sapphire, not sure for now) and slot it in then the games will well and truly begin.

i hope you can run crysis at 1920x1200 and 8x fsaa all maxed out at 60fps hahahaha...

Ferret_Style · Aug 27, 2008, 02:46 PM

Well parts arrive for my new quad core system today!!!

Q9550- omg 12 MB cache
Asus Rampage MB
4 gigs ddr2 - 1066
2 x HD 4850's
3 x 7200.11 segate 500gb hd's (going raid 5)

cozumel · Aug 27, 2008, 05:42 PM

Grats ferret. You went with the Rampage after all!!

BlueMak · Aug 27, 2008, 08:27 PM

Does the 12MB cache make that much difference? The price difference between the Q6600 and newer versions with 12MB of cache and just a few more Mhz, looks too much, is there an equal amount of performance increase?

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 27, 2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

Does the 12MB cache make that much difference? The price difference between the Q6600 and newer versions with 12MB of cache and just a few more Mhz, looks too much, is there an equal amount of performance increase?

I'd like to know the real world difference too. cache is what really pushes Intel over AMD with the Core 2 series. I hope they concentrate on more cache per core.

Judas · Aug 27, 2008, 09:15 PM

cache is expensive as hell..

as the cache runs at the same clocks as the cpu itself.... physical memory capable of that is pretty insane... lol

swimtech · Aug 27, 2008, 10:35 PM

From what I've read, general concensus is the 45nm quads run 10-15% faster clock for clock than the 65nm quads - but that's because of the cache (12Mb and 2x4Mb respectively) and other improvements altogether...

Ferret_Style · Aug 29, 2008, 11:00 PM

So far well i have just put it together

What would be a good benchmark to show you guys for it? .... it does screem though!

**Mousey** · Aug 31, 2008, 12:59 PM

Since they're getting very cheap in the uk (Around the £100 mark) as far as i'm aware, I reckon the next thing i upgrade will be my CPU and i'll be looking quad core because i do a lot of 3D Modelling in Cinema4D, and lucky for me C4D can utilise any cores you have going, not just 2 or 4

Aug 23, 2008, 04:03 PM	#1
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	I have a Quad Core bragging thread man I love the Q6600. It's been over a year it rips through everything like a monster (except Crysis, oh Crysis). I invested in one because I know processors won't be getting faster, they will get more cores. Software and games now utilize multicores better, and everyday life is faster on the comp when you multi task. Overall, very satisfied with my setup. Brag that you have a quadcore in this thread, because people will continually persist to say "it's useless". But when your computer runs everything fine another year and half down the line and their dual core won't, you will be the king. I don't know....i'm really bored...... __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

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BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	i mean for office work, its pretty useless. but its great for recoding, media centers and heavy multi tasking. only thing that runs like a piece of crap is iTunes, and that is because iTunes is the ultimate piece of shit. __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Aug 23, 2008, 04:33 PM	#6
cozumel I'm dangerous but cute... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Under the waves... Posts: 3,577 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	Geek!!! Grats though, on your new toy. __________________ Don't worry about money - Be a beach bum! Scuba Rocks

Aug 23, 2008, 09:31 PM	#13
cozumel I'm dangerous but cute... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Under the waves... Posts: 3,577 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	Yeah the Q6600 certainly dropped in price quickly. I just checked. And according to what I'm reading the B3 was released January 7 2007 at USD851. The G0 was released April 20 2007 (my birthday) at USD266. And the price has continued to drop further. __________________ Don't worry about money - Be a beach bum! Scuba Rocks

Aug 24, 2008, 12:26 AM	#14
CJLMTLCA 14X Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 633 Rep Power: 63 System Specs	I like my Q6600. Everytime someone brings up the old "yah, but dude, games don't need 4 cores..." I say "uhhh, ever hear of multitasking????" I too record tv programs, encode with Vegas, have a few sidebar gadgets running, security software, multiple browsers, office apps, and who knows how many other things open and finaly fireing up a game. Do you guys find the HD the weakest link in the system? I was recording a tv show while playing a game a while back and the recording had stuttering in it. I have Vista, apps and games on my 1st HD and the pagefile, internet cache/downloads, video recording/editing and all my personal files on multiple partitions on the 2nd HD. I wonder what performance you'd get with multiple SSD drives only in the system. __________________

Aug 23, 2008, 04:16 PM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	moved from off topic Congrats, you probably bought yourself one of the best value processors of all time .........

Aug 23, 2008, 08:56 PM	#12
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	Q6600 is indeed a very good value processor for it can perform. now this CPU's cost exactly half the price of a Q9550. how much did a Q6600 cost at it's first release? i recall that its price was pretty high.

Aug 24, 2008, 12:39 AM	#15
RobertBruce HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 259 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	I got a Q9450 and I love it. Sure I havent found all that many programs that can use all four cores, but when it does it just blows everything out of the water. I seem to have issues so its staying at stock for now....

Aug 24, 2008, 08:03 PM	#18
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Yes, I have one - but almost didn't... It was the last thing I decided upon, 'cause the market was in so much flux. The 9x50 series quads had just come out, and the 8x00 series dual cores were fast and relatively cheap. I wanted a speed demon of a machine and the dual core had that. What settled it? I had to think different - to take a line from a famous manufacturer who also had a sea change in their hardware the past several years... I had to stop thinking about model numbers and the given specs from Intel for their processors, and look at what the top end enthusiasts were able to pull from their hardware, without undue effort or extreme modification. Nearly every motherboard for the past three years is able to overclock an Intel processor, some better than others, but a large selection of those were able to hit about a 400Mhz front side bus speed with ease. From there, all I had to do was purchase a processor with a multiplier that would give me the speed I wanted at that bus speed. Heck, at the time, I could have gotten an 8400 dual core for $190 and run it 3.6Ghz (huge speed...), or two in the same package (less a bit of cache...) with the Q6600 and run it at 3.2 (reading told me I'd have to reduce the multi to assure a stable OC at 400Mhz without extra cooling) for just $30 more. Wow, the second dual core processor is basically free! Plus, a 3.2 Ghz quad (stock) at the time cost $1300. A Ferrari for the price of a Corolla. OK, that's a no brainer. A 3.2Ghz quad would run games as well a 3.6 dual (practically - 100fps looks the same as 130fps, really...), and everything else better - much better - now - and should do nothing but improve with the quads in the future. Benchmarks all over the net show it. I was done - it works after actually building it (with an AMD/DH GOODY!) - and I'm one very happy (and proud - hell yeah!) camper! __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Aug 24, 2008, 11:05 PM	#19
RobertBruce HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 259 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	349.99 back at the end of april. they were damn hard to find too. But I think its a bit of a crapshoot that I lost. I may be doing something wrong as i'm used to AMD systems but the bottom line is I havent been able to overclock this, I've been trying for two days almost constantly. I thoought this would go to 3.2 easily! Last edited by RobertBruce; Aug 24, 2008 at 11:09 PM. Reason: edit for additional info

Aug 25, 2008, 07:09 AM	#20
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	almost forget that at this time around there is another cheap Intel quad-core that is already in retail stores, the Q8200, i'm wondering anyone has an experience with this CPU, and can verify with CPU-Z or Everest that this CPU is an R0 stepping just like Q9400? as far as i can see there is no sSpec info on this CPU at Intel's site at this time.

Aug 25, 2008, 03:02 PM	#21
Callandor Forged on Dragonmount Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 7,237 Rep Power: 304 System Specs	Just got a Q9450 two days ago, one of the fastners on the stock cooler was jamming up so going to get another cooler today (the Asus Amazing I'm 95% sure) and fire it up later today. I program, game, encode and do alot of stuff that requires multi-tasking and it's o/cing capability is pretty awsome, and future wise quad cores are now the way to go. Once I get my 4870X2 hopefully later this week (Diamond or Sapphire, not sure for now) and slot it in then the games will well and truly begin. __________________

Aug 27, 2008, 05:42 PM	#24
cozumel I'm dangerous but cute... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Under the waves... Posts: 3,577 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	Grats ferret. You went with the Rampage after all!! __________________ Don't worry about money - Be a beach bum! Scuba Rocks

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BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Does the 12MB cache make that much difference? The price difference between the Q6600 and newer versions with 12MB of cache and just a few more Mhz, looks too much, is there an equal amount of performance increase? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Aug 27, 2008, 10:35 PM	#28
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	From what I've read, general concensus is the 45nm quads run 10-15% faster clock for clock than the 65nm quads - but that's because of the cache (12Mb and 2x4Mb respectively) and other improvements altogether... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

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Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	Since they're getting very cheap in the uk (Around the £100 mark) as far as i'm aware, I reckon the next thing i upgrade will be my CPU and i'll be looking quad core because i do a lot of 3D Modelling in Cinema4D, and lucky for me C4D can utilise any cores you have going, not just 2 or 4 __________________