Q6600 OC(3.2ghz) vs Q9400 OC(3.4ghz) will they differ much in gaming ??

[budget_nerd]

i dont have tonne of money so i cant go and just get a 8700K and new MoBo

i do have a reasonable 775 mobo 

 

price diff between them in Indian rupee is 500rs which does matter to me if the performance gain is not that much

[emosun]

the q6600 and q9400 overclocked will perform a bit slower than most entry level cpu's today.

so either one will run very hot and use a lot of power to achieve slightly worse perfomance than a modern cheapo cpu. so it really doesnt matter which you pick

[Jurrunio]

What mobo is that exactly?

[Dabombinable]

Considering the Q9400 at the same clock speed would be noticeably faster (going off my QX6850 and Xeon X5450+GTX 970), uses less power and overclocks far better. Just go with the Q9400.

[Dabombinable]

@budget_nerd

This is what I mean (the X5450 is just a binned Q9650 that also works in dual socket boards):

[3rrant]

20 minutes ago, budget_nerd said:

i dont have tonne of money so i cant go and just get a 8700K and new MoBo

i do have a reasonable 775 mobo 

 

price diff between them in Indian rupee is 500rs which does matter to me if the performance gain is not that much

There's not really a difference in games, within probably 2 FPS at the best. They will both severely bottleneck any modern GPU unless it's very very low end or from some years ago.

[budget_nerd]

12 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

@budget_nerd

This is what I mean (the X5450 is just a binned Q9650 that also works in dual socket boards):

its not a lga 775 chip

i already have a LGA775 board

[Dabombinable]

9 minutes ago, budget_nerd said:

its not a lga 775 chip

i already have a LGA775 board

My LGA775 boards were modded to fit the Xeon. Point is the Q9400 at the same clock speed is noticeably better than the Q6600.

 

Here is a review of the Q9400 compared to the Q6600:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2762/10

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Here is a review of the Q9400 compared to the Q6600:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2762/10

that article is almost 10 years old , nether chip is considered much different from another today , both are considered rather slow and would show very little difference in modern games/usage.

[Dabombinable]

Just now, emosun said:

that article is almost 10 years old , nether chip is considered much different from another today , both are considered rather slow and would show very little difference in modern games/usage.

Which is why I also put the snip of my CB11.5 results.

[emosun]

22 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Which is why I also put the snip of my CB11.5 results.

im not sure how cb11.5 from 2010 is related to modern games/usage

[Ground]

23 minutes ago, emosun said:

that article is almost 10 years old , nether chip is considered much different from another today , both are considered rather slow and would show very little difference in modern games/usage.

A CPU released earlier and tested slower then the newer CPU is highly unlikely to be faster then the newer one. Even if both are slow by modern standarts, less slow is still gonna last longer then slowest...

1 minute ago, emosun said:

im not sure how cb11.5 from 2010 is related to modern games/usage

Its a valid benchmark for CPU performance and can still be compared with modern CPUs, thats the beauty of old benches...

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, Ground said:

Even if both are slow by modern standarts

i can't help but hear that wooshing sound as the knowledge of what the current year is just flies right over everyones head.

[Dabombinable]

14 minutes ago, emosun said:

im not sure how cb11.5 from 2010 is related to modern games/usage

3.6GHz QX6850 (Kentsfield) vs 3.6GHz Xeon X5450/Q9650 (Hapertown/Yorkfield). The Q9650/X5450 is a lot faster.

And the same will apply for a 3.2GHz Q6600 (Kentsfield) vs a 3.4GHz Q9400 (Yorkfield) .

Also my X5450 when overclocked to my motherboard's limits (4.4GHz) matches a Ryzen 3 1200 in performance.

[Ground]

Eh, here are plenty of people with really low budgets, and a core 2 quad is still an upgrade over a core 2 duo or worse. 

[ZcanKal]

6 minutes ago, Ground said:

Eh, here are plenty of people with really low budgets, and a core 2 quad is still an upgrade over a core 2 duo or worse. 

Pentium D

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Also my X5450 when overclocked to my motherboard's limits (4.4GHz) matches a Ryzen 3 1300 in performance.

 

thats super interesting but im not entirely sure the ryzen 3 isn't an entry level product.

I'll have to do some quick research to see if a ryzen 3 is considered a fast cpu give me a few minutes here and i'll get back to you.

[Dabombinable]

@budget_nerd
If you can get the Q9400 at least close to 3.7GHz, it should give similar performance to a still current Pentium G4560, so it should last you a fair while despite the age:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sxzGshuqVtFe_2zgRhN3gXCraR7d8p-NazJ6z0nsGGc/edit#gid=0