OC Q6600, what mobo?

[reel]

your E5400, when overclocked well over 3.6GHz, is faster than the Q6600 in some cases, such as on older games or games that dont really require quads (i.e. Crysis 2). but with new games cropping up with heavier CPU requirements, such as Bad Company 2, it should be faster.

[splerdu]

I'd say a slight downgrade for some games, but an upgrade for overall usability.
The performance difference should be close, if not a bit less than (in games, you eventually you get GPU-limited) to that of E8600 vs Q6600 @ stock speeds (~900MHz difference):
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/54?vs=53

[Thakker]

From what proc again?

[Capcom]

Pentium Dual COre e5300 @ 3.9ghz

[splerdu]

Oh PDC pala. I thought you were coming from a Core2Duo.
Definitely an upgrade.

[reel]

that PDC is mostly faster than older C2Ds such as the E4xx, and its not that much slower compared to a, say, E7xxx.

[splerdu]

that PDC is mostly faster than older C2Ds such as the E4xx, and its not that much slower compared to a, say, E7xxx.

Looks quite a bit slower to me.

The architecture may be newer, but just 1MB of cache per core means its slower than a lower-clocked E7 series, and sometimes its slower even than the E4 series.

Q6600 is faster per-core, and has more cores.

[sauce]

[splerdu]

Here's the clock-for-clock between E6 and the PDC E5:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/60?vs=98

The older E6 core wins every just about every test, even in gaming. Wolfsdale is great, but not with 1MB of cache per-core.

[splerdu]

Q6600 lives strong!

Dodgy internet caused by teh stormz is preventing me from playing diablo, so I ran Heaven 3.0 instead.


GPU was at +100 offset and +122% power. Pretty much stayed at 1185MHz throughout the run, 75°C max temp.

[dta]

Tesselation was disabled. What if Tesselation is enabled (moderate/normal settings)?

What PSU do you use to power up your system?

[splerdu]

I just used the default settings when Heaven started and changed AF/AA to 16x/4x. With normal tesselation it gets just over 60+.

CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600M.

[splerdu]

41.1 @ maxxed out settings.
8xaa, 16xaf, Extreme Tesselation, High shaders