Fx 74 Vs Q6600

[Sirius_GTO]

I've been talking to a buddy who is knowledgeable on computers, and he tells me that FX 74 will be a much more responsive system than the Q6600. What do you think?

 

[b1gapl]

Maybe...But I think you have to buy them in pairs, because they're meant to go in a dual socket motherboard. And that would cost more than a Q6600 setup.

 

[Sirius_GTO]

that's really interesting. Can you explain more?

So socket F is dual socket?

 

[maroon1]

Don't waste your money on FX-74

Just get Q6600 because it is much cheaper


And it seems that Q6600 beats it most of time
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Not to mention that Q6600 consume less power, and overclocks much better than two FX-74

 

[Invisible]

fx-74, is about even in the 3d rendering with the q6600, but the q6600 can overclock much better

 

[gurusan]

the FX 74 pair is an absolute waste of money...

 

[Sirius_GTO]

but one FX 74 is also as good as a q6600, so shouldn't two be better?

 

[maroon1]

but one FX 74 is also as good as a q6600, so shouldn't two be better?

One FX-74 is just a dual core processor. One FX-74 would be much slower than Q6600 in multi-threaded applications and the applications that utilize quad cores

There is no reason to get pair of FX-74 because Q6600 is much cheaper and overclocks much better

 

[Sirius_GTO]

the FX 74 is at 3.0, it has a faster FSB and more cache. Has their been any overclocking articles on this processor? Thanks

 

[maroon1]

the FX 74 is at 3.0, it has a faster FSB and more cache

First: FX-74 doesn't use FSB, it uses Hypertransport instead

Second: Q6600 have 8MB L2 cache, much more than FX-74

Third: Having higher GHz doesn't mean that the processor is better. The older Pentium 4 processors had much higher GHz than Athlon64 but they performed worse. The new Intel core 2 processors can do more instruction per Hz than AMD processors.

Just look at the review I posted above, Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz (E6550) outperformed AMD 2.8GHz (5600+).

Has their been any overclocking articles on this processor?

I'm not sure if there is overclocking articles for FX-74 but there is power consumption article for FX-74

Click here to see the article

FX-74 consume too much power

And since they consume too much power, I think they are not good for overclocking