Its pointless to upgrade to a Q6600 if you have a Core 2 Duo

Intel C2D will run games like Crysis and UT3 fine.

By the time Quad cores become useful for games, there will be a better one called Intel Penryn (12MB Cache), which is much better than a q6600

The only reason people want a q6600 so bad is because of the hype.

y r we sooo hyped bout Q6600.

Is there any game that bottlenecks E6600 ? No.... not even E4300 is bottlenecked in any game released till now. And when time comes, u can always overclock it .

Q6600 is sellin fast just becoz it has reduced its price by A gr88 deal. and obviously the HYPEE...

Yes if you Fold. P.S. I find it funny how everyone talks about "maxing crysis" when the game isn't even out. X360PS3AMD05

ill stick with E6750 becoz its cheap . overclock to atleast 3.12 Ghz . that shud last a couple of years

and most probably skip the PENRYN generation.

The Million Dollar Question: Dual or Quad Core for the Same Price?

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3038&p=8

Interesting... Supreme Commander faster on E6850 than Q6600

Based on current software, Games - get E6850; Encoding - get Q6600... for the same $$$.
For future software, it largely depends how well the developers code for multi-threaded support.

Intel C2D will run games like Crysis and UT3 fine.

By the time Quad cores become useful for games, there will be a better one called Intel Penryn (12MB Cache), which is much better than a q6600

The only reason people want a q6600 so bad is because of the hype.PSTriple4life

Yorkfield at stock isn't going to be "much better" then a Kentsfield at the same clock speed.
Why does everyone think Penryn is so awesome? All it really does is add more overclocking headroom for those that can use it.

Intel C2D will run games like Crysis and UT3 fine.

By the time Quad cores become useful for games, there will be a better one called Intel Penryn (12MB Cache), which is much better than a q6600

The only reason people want a q6600 so bad is because of the hype.

PSTriple4life

Penryn isn't a new architecture. It's a die shrink (which leads to more cache) and a clock speed bump from the original Core 2 (Woodcrest/Conroe/Merom and Clovertown/Kentsfield). Yes, Penryn will beat the Q6600, but that'll be mainly due to the ramped up clock speed (3.33GHz) and SSE4 (mainly for encoding).

A good dualcore like E6750 is more than enough to max even Crysis with a strong video card, Q6600 is not a native quad core so is not worth it dayaccus007

Oh gawd.

Please explain to me, in a logical way, why everyone should wait for a monolithic ("true" to your understanding) quad core?

lol.. how many games are quad-core only except alan wake which comes in 2008? Not only that C2D is enough. E6600 should be enough for MAX. Now think.Shegevara

exactly can anyone even name a game that needs dual core?

BOTTOM LINE IS. QUAD IS MORE POWERFUL. END OF DISCUSSION. IF U AINT GOT A QUAD. DONT DOWN IT. jjarvis321

I already have C2D and I don't need the quad now. Some games support 4 core but you still play with 2 core well. I'm waiting until mid 2008. It's not only cheaper but also more new tech: DDR3, PCIE2.0, 45nm ho ho.

[QUOTE="jjarvis321"]BOTTOM LINE IS. QUAD IS MORE POWERFUL. END OF DISCUSSION. IF U AINT GOT A QUAD. DONT DOWN IT. yoyo462001

The guy was right when he said that quad is more powerful. 4 processing cores has more power than two (of the same uarch), and you can't deny that.

However, you and a lot of people are right that software has to be written for multithreading. But the fact of the matter is that games are being written for multicore CPUs: Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer 3, Crysis, Alan Wake, the entire Source engine and the UE3, just to mention a few.

Finally, I agree with the topic creator's title. Upgrading from a Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad is stupid. Me? Well, I'll get the Q6600 and then I'm going to use this E4400 to replace my office rig's Pentium D. :D

I've got an E6600 atm, so I'm holding out until at least next year before I get a new mobo, ddr3, and a quad.Staryoshi87