For someone who only games, but want to last a few years with one of the three cpu's witch is the logical choice in your opinion? Read many reviews, but under most of your sigs i see the q6600. What makes you choose that over the q9450? Is it the $150 more dollar price tag?
Already had to make a few other hard choices, one was the ram. ATM ddr3 1333 is slower than its cheaper dd2 10xx low latency chips, but seeing as i want a board i can later add too and a budget when it comes to ram, i got a 790i Mobo witch only supports ddr3 1333-2000. when i get more money i can put ddr3 1600's in there.
After all this i concluded that for a fast system you would build this a rig with e8400 at 4ghz, and some fast low latency dd2 instead of a slightly slower q9450 with ddr3 1333. But the deciding factor was quads will be used more in a few years and ddr3 board will be faster when i can afford the 1600. I tell yah when spending almost 3 grand on a system these decisions are very hard to make.
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Already had to make a few other hard choices, one was the ram. ATM ddr3 1333 is slower than its cheaper dd2 10xx low latency chips, but seeing as i want a board i can later add too and a budget when it comes to ram, i got a 790i Mobo witch only supports ddr3 1333-2000. when i get more money i can put ddr3 1600's in there.
After all this i concluded that for a fast system you would build this a rig with e8400 at 4ghz, and some fast low latency dd2 instead of a slightly slower q9450 with ddr3 1333. But the deciding factor was quads will be used more in a few years and ddr3 board will be faster when i can afford the 1600. I tell yah when spending almost 3 grand on a system these decisions are very hard to make.
NCIX.com - Buy Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core Processor LGA775 2.66GHZ Yorkfield 1333FSB 12MB OEM No HSF - EU80569PJ067N In Canada.
NCIX.com - Buy Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB Retail Box - BX80562Q6600 In Canada.