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Q6600 or PD 965 extreme?

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bigdeebird   05-15-2009 at 06:05:18 AM
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I Am finishing a build xfx750imb,8mb nvsli 6400ram,750 watt corsair psu,wd640gb 7400,32mb cache, after market mascool heatsink,sli 260/216 vc's, Diablo full size case/w plenty of fans. Question-am I better off going with a new pd965ext,which i have or my q6600 from my dell xps 420. Thanks in advance. basically used for gaming

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mcnuggetofdeath   05-15-2009 at 06:45:47 AM
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Q6600 for sure. If your lucky you can get that to 3.4-3.6GHz. The Pentium Architecture is ridiculously dated and used to be a HUGE bottleneck for my system. went from a Pentium D 820 OC'd to 3.85GHz to an Core 2 Duo E7400 OC'd to 4GHz and saw an enormous jump in FPS in Crysis, FarCry 2, WinRar, etc.

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cjl   05-15-2009 at 07:05:40 AM
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The Q6600 will blow away the Pentium in every way.

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B-Unit   05-15-2009 at 09:29:25 AM
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This is a joke, right?

No contest. Even if you underclock that Q6600 to 2.0Ghz and OC the PentiumD to the max, the Q6600 is faster.

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bigdeebird   05-15-2009 at 01:59:14 PM
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Thanks all, basically got the pentium D for nothing with a newegg combo deal, and 10% coupon. Had saw that the chip was $999 dollars when it hit the market in 2006, the 3.73 ghz, thought it was worth the question, some of my older chips that were single core,duel core- seem to work pretty good with my older systems without all of the safistacation of today's system, Give me my windows 98" Tank! with a quick os boot and tons of games! Those were the days Now you have to be a scientist, lol I wonder how much the spyware and virus programs we have to defend our systems slow down our expensive systems anyway? Thanks all for the help, great forum.

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