Hey guys again. Had some good luck lately This dude said if i rebooted his computer ( Him meaning i format it) He would give me his old laptop.

His old laptop was in bad shape as i think someone got very angry playing tetris, as the kicked the screen ( yeah thoes falling block must have pissed sum1 off )

Anyways, I "Rebooted" his pc and he gave the latop. So i decided to see what was hidden beneath :8

When i cracked it open i was greeted by 2gb of ram ddr2 a windows vista home premium Certificate of Authenticity a 160GB hard drive DVD RW or whatever they are ( the good 1) and a Core 2 Duo t5550

AS YOU PROBS GUESSED MY FACE WAS FIRST LIKE THIS and swiftly changed to this

Wow i realy aught to "reboot" computers more

So anyway I got around £100 in parts here and when i sell them im planning on getting a C2Q

But which variation is the best here are my options.

Q6600 8mg of L2 went on ebay for £85 + £3 postage

Q9300 6mg of L2 still bidding @ £77 9hrs left ( oh yeah also what does SLAWE mean?)


Q8200 4mb l2 still bidding @ 9 hrs £49

Cheers

Q6600 or q6700 if planning to overclock.

am not better off getting q9000's range because Pass mark cpu charts tell me that the 9000 range are better than 6600 <- confused FACE...

Source; http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html

Unless you can afford a q9650 they're not worth it.

Q6600 & Q6700's are cheaper and can hit 3.6GHz fairly easily.

My Q9450 was a nightmare to OC.


Does your mobo support a 45nm processor?

yeah my mobo supports 45nm processors but what does SLACR mean

It's a code to identify the processor. In this case it's a Q6600 G0, these are the good ones

Q6600 all the way.

SLACR are the codes of when the processor was made, and what production run it was made on. Think batch code on like a motorbike part or something.

Stuartpengs (the outsider round here ) had a G0 Q66, and he ran his at 4ghz all day every day since he got it. We'll get 3.5-3.6 or so on your mobo, and it'll destroy everything. Might even be able to put the sauce on on Tetris!

Oh yeah, that really demanding game

As said by Saspro and Adam, go for the Q6600 if at all possible.

I'd say avoid the 8000 series. It isn't future proof. The 6000 and 9000 chips both have Intel's virtualisation technology and can therefore, if needed, run Windows XP mode in Windows 7. The 8000 chips don't have this.

I'm happy with my stock Q6600

Mine is running at 400x8 (3.2GHz) on an Asus board (sig) and its solid as a rock. I'm sure it could go more but I'm not seeing a substantial increase in performance at 3.6GHz but a fair sized increase in temps!! And its lapped too. Its a G0 SLACR.

I've got to admit i've been running my Q6600 GO at stock for about a year >.<

I know, sacrilege! To be in a place like this, with the most overclockable processor EVAH and not even up it by 200MHz just doesn't seem right.

Oh well - I had a choice between silence and speed and I chose silence... Dammit...

I'm right with you on the stock and silent Q6600. Until I recently reignited my interest in PC gaming with ARMAII I was running mine (although this doesnt seem like the correct word) slowly.

What's the difference with a 6700? Why can I still buy that from Scan but not a 66? Also, are the 45nm ones rubbish? Wondering about building a new machine for ArmaII and Starcraft II (if it ever arrives).

The Q6700 has a slightly higher mutiplier than the Q6600 giving it a slightly higher stock clock speed. Other than that, I believe they are identical.

Some of the 45nm quads are OK. As Saspro said, the Q9650 was (is) pretty good but rather expensive. Also, may I ask a question? Has anyone tried the new "S" series of 45nm quads from Intel. They seem to have really low TDPs so I wonder if they'd overclock better?

Cool. Well looking around it seems the 6700 is the only "cheap" option to go quad core. I suppose I should price up some stuff to go with it and see what it looks like.

Does anybody have a clue about multicore AMD chips beyond 939?