shant wroteyasamoka wroteWhy should he not sell his CPU? Even @6GHz it can't match the performance of a Core i7 2xxx series @ stock. Overclock it and you can sell it higher. That is if you're going the "new PC" route. Doesn't make much sense to keep it for a newer mobo since you can buy a Core i5 2400 for $200 and OC the hell out of that. 6 series boards can be obtained for $100-$200.
he should sell the processor by itself,he will get more money out of it, lol that was a joke the 6Ghz thing right?
if you overclock the Q6600 good enough you can get near the performance of an i5, or he can keep the cpu and oc it, this way he won't have to spend a few hundred dollars and still get a good performance, as i said the Q6600 is special, its no longer being produced and it overclocks easily, btw you can't oc the hell out of the 2400, its not unlocked...
Haha no it was not a joke...Let's take this step by step. The Core i5 / i7 xxx (1st generation) improves on the previous Core 2 Quad Generation (Q8xxx and Q9xxx) by 50% (theoretically). The Core i5 / i7 2xxx (2nd generation) improves on the Core i5 / i7 xxx by 50% (theoretically). Now for the calculations:
Let's assume a Core i5 2400 running at 3.1GHz (stock). Its raw performance, clock for clock, expressed in terms of a Core 2 Quad (8xxx or 9xxx) is the following: 1.5 * 1.5 = 2.25 (clock for clock)
now let's multiply that by the frequency of the Core i5 to get the frequency we need to run the Core 2 Quad at to equal the Core i5's performance. 3.1GHz * 2.25 = 6.975 GHz (You need 7GHz, theoretically, to match the Core i5's performance at stock. This is disregarding the new instruction sets which improve performance. in certain cases. way beyond the 2.25x raw improvement. An example is AES encryption performance.)
We are still with a Core i5 @Stock. Now let's take a Core i5@4GHz (this is easy, everybody should be able to reach it, even with the stock cooler. This is a bad chip for OC, too). 4GHz * 2.25 = 9GHz Core 2 Quad. (Liquid nitrogen? If it's even possible for the chip to run that fast).
You can't OC a 2400? You can OC a 2600K, with its multiplier unlocked, and that one costs $100 more than the Core i5 2400. Neither is the Q6600's multiplier unlocked.
Based on my calculations, you need a 190% OC to reach a Core i5 @Stock and a 275% overclock to reach a Core i5 OC.
This is all based on the assumption that the software would take advantage of the new processor. But why shouldn't it? They're both quad cores. Single - threaded apps scale much the same way as multi - threaded apps between these 2 processors.
