compuguy1088
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2008
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That old myth about clock-frequency is still in people's heads (despite first AMD, with the Athlon64, then Intel itself with Core/Core 2, making a mockery out of that myth). If that old myth were even close to true, then a P4 Northwood 2.6 would still be ahead of most, if not all, stock Core 2 CPUs (instead, even the latest Core 2 derivative, the infamous Celeron DC E1200, smacks the 2.6C from pillar to post).
Given the utter lack of CPU bottlenecking at 3 GHz (pretty much regardless of what game you play) and that more and more titles are indeed taking advantage of more than two cores (and there's actually an operating system that also takes advantage of more than two cores), why bet on tall overclocks with questionable benefits as opposed to the very real and measurable benefits of two more processor cores?
(Those of you near a local Fry's and/or MicroCenter should be paying even stricter attention, as both chains are running in-store-only sales on the retail Q6600; in neither case is the price more than $200. This is not just quad-core for the price of dual-core; this is quad-core for *less* than dual-core.)
I just got the microcenter ad and saw that. That is a very tantalizing deal.....would be a decent bump from a E6600.