E6850 or Q6600 for gaming only

by **kappage** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:34 am

Simple question which CPu will give u the best results for Gaming only with no overclocking??

by **Apoptosis** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:23 am

flip a coin.. it's going to be pretty close. Here is some 3dmark06 love for you... Add 5% or so to the E6750 and you'll be head to head with the Q6600.

by **ibleet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:27 am

As of right now, very few, if any games take advantage of 4 cores so the E6850 is the clear winner. That will most likely change in the next few years as more companies program their games for multi-threads.

My son has a Q6600 @ 3.6 and I have an E6850 @ 3.6. In Crysis, our FPS are nearly identical. At stock, the E6850 would be the clear winner. His setup requires an aftermarket cooler, whereas mine is nice and cool with stock cooling.

If you just go by benchmarks then yes, the quad is the clear winner, but 3DMark is optimized for quads and games are not YET. I score over 14,000 3Dmark06 and he scores over 17,000. At stock they both get around 12,000 range, with the quad slightly edging me out.

by **JuneBug** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:41 pm

I could have this wrong but don't most games max out with the GPU and not the CPU (ie.all the hard stuff is done on the GPU) so with that being said and few multi threaded games i will go with the cheaper

by **ibleet** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:34 pm

Price is always a good point. I have both an E6750 and an E6850. My E6750 has more OC headroom and is cheaper. I know that all chips are different, but you may want to consider the E6750 and save ~$80-$90. :-k