q9650 OR E8600 in Q3??

[Jaym14]

This is the question I have been asking myself. I'm going to get one or the other for sure. I'm currently running an E8400 and think its a great chip. So I can either get the 9650 which, when overclocked, should match the speed of my current processor (+ 2 extra cores of course ) OR get an insane Wolfdale that should be a sick overclocker (again 2 cores.... a very fast 2 cores ). I primarily game and do some photoshop and video editing (not a really significant amount). I know that currently duel cores are better for gaming, BUT, multi-threaded games are already popping up. I don't plan on updating again (after this purchase) for probably 2 years to the new platform (Bloomy ) so I do want future proof also.

There is also price points to consider (260$ vs. 550$) approx. for each.

Just looking for opinions.

 

[Shiggity]

E8600

That baby will hit 4.5ghz stable easily imo.

E8600 will most likely be the first time we see a 5.0GHz overclock on air.

 

[White_Pawn]

E8600

That baby will hit 4.5ghz stable easily imo.

E8600 will most likely be the first time we see a 5.0GHz overclock on air.

correction. E8600 has already hit 5ghz+ on air.

 

[ObiWong]

lol omg 6GHz+
http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-5807-view-core-2-duo-e8600-world-record.html

 

[Jaym14]

Rofl look @ the vcore... over 1.9 I hope that was a Ln2 run.

YUPP it was.. just saw it.

 

[White_Pawn]

lol just over 7.2 super pi, damn that is smokin' fast.

 

[wingman99]

video editing

What kind of Video editing do you do and what software do you use.

 

[prime81]

As far as clocking abilities I think the Q9650 will probably do similar to the qx9650 except with a locked multi. In that case a 4ghz quad is not out of the ordinary.

 

[Jaym14]

What kind of Video editing do you do and what software do you use.

Nothing fancy... I do some web design for which I use photoshop to make background images other art work commonly found on web pages. As for video, nothing professional.... mostly just my own home videos for family and youtube stuff.

 

[Brolloks]

The Q9650 will clock (from what I've seen) as high as what the E8400 clocks now, with the right board that is.... the E0 revision is bringing some real nice features to the 45nm quads

 

[OC101]

how much will the cost be at release?

 

[Anubis_386]

E8600 all the way .. Or maybe the Xeon version of Q9650 (which I'm sure will be released)

 

[Brolloks]

how much will the cost be at release?

MSRP will be around $550 for the Q9650 and around $300 for the E8600

 

[Shiggity]

What's the lowest possible VID on an E8400 / E8500 now?

I'm hoping the new stepping is at least .1v lower in it's best batch.

 

[Brolloks]

I've seen a E8400 with a VID of 0.9770

 

[Shiggity]

Sick

 

[OC101]

What's the date for E8600 to be out?

 

[wingman99]

Nothing fancy... I do some web design for which I use photoshop to make background images other art work commonly found on web pages. As for video, nothing professional.... mostly just my own home videos for family and youtube stuff.

I guess you could go either way if your doing photoshop a quad will help, however with the videos it depends on your software if a quad will help. 95% of the games out there don't use quads yet.

 

[prime81]

It boils down to how high you want it to clock, as far as games you will see next to no difference between the two chips unless your multitasking. What I mean by this is....

mirc
crysis
xfire
ventrilo/teamspeak
IE/firefox

If ya got all those open and doin stuff, I gaurantee the quad will be snappier.

 

[blazed]

Neither, whats wrong with your E8400 @ 3.8ghz? I can see why people would want to buy the latest CPUs of a new architecture, but buying the latest speed bumps seems kind of useless, unless your just going for an OC record.