Intel® Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB?

Question

is it better than the Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6850 (4MB L2 Cache,3.0GHz,1333 FSB For gamingggg???? i play source engine games, like counter strike source and half life 2 games such as garrys mod. which one will run faster withought slowing down or giving me lag spikes

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Answer 1

either one of them will be plenty for those games...the Q6600 will overclock better and is just a better all-around CPU. CPU really has very little to do with gaming...it's more about the GPU

Answer 2

i have the q6600. the e6850 may have a higher clock speed, but it only has 2 cores as oppsed to the 4 the q6600 has. the q6600 is also a very easy chip to overclock. mine is currently running at 3.2 ghz from the stock 2.4ghz. It is a superior chip. Also make sure you have a just as powerful gpu or graphic processing unit. I have 2 8800gtx cards in sli. My comp specs are :

Falcon -NW Mach V

intel core 2 quad q6600 3.2 ghz
4gb memory
2x 250 gb hdd raid 0
2x nvidia 8800gtx SLI
vista ultimate x64 bit

Answer 3

Most games/programs these days utilize only 2 cores. I'm going for the Q6600 since I do video work and gaming. If you're more into gaming now, go for the E6850, since I assume you don't know how to overclock.

A good video card is also a necessity.

Answer 4

confident, yet GHz are no longer each thing. Pentium 4 (P4) is a single middle, 512 KB of cache processor. on an identical time as in virtually an identical quantity of area the Q6600 has 4 processor cores and sixteen situations the cache. additionally, the each middle on the Q6600 can cope with 4 training at a time, for an entire of sixteen. on an identical time as the P4 in simple terms performs 3 training. so which you do the mathematics.