Q6600 vs Q9400

[silverjay928]

Which could should I use for just 1080p gaming I already have an lga775 motherboard with ram and power supply and everything with the q6600 installed in it and have the q9400 Inside of another motherboard would it be worth it to switch the two and use the 9400 for my pc

[aisle9]

Do the tape mod on the Q6600 and keep using it. More L2 cache, and $0.00003 worth of electrical tape and five minutes of your time gives it a higher 3GHz clock speed than the Q9400's 2.66GHz.

 

Realistically speaking, there's not a ton of difference between the two, especially with both being so outdated.

[corrado33]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

Do the tape mod on the Q6600 and keep using it. More L2 cache, and $0.00003 worth of electrical tape and five minutes of your time gives it a higher 3GHz clock speed than the Q9400's 2.66GHz.

 

Realistically speaking, there's not a ton of difference between the two, especially with both being so outdated.

Wait what? What's the tape mod?

[corrado33]

1 hour ago, silverjay928 said:

Which could should I use for just 1080p gaming I already have an lga775 motherboard with ram and power supply and everything with the q6600 installed in it and have the q9400 Inside of another motherboard would it be worth it to switch the two and use the 9400 for my pc

I'm confused, why would you NOT use the 9400? It has higher stock clock speeds and the same number of cores?

 

This thread is funnily relevant to what I'm doing right now.

 

I OCed a 6600 and I think i got it to somewhere around 3 GHz.

 

Now I'm OCing a 9500 on the same system and I'm up to 3.74 GHz stable. I'm not sure how much further I can go because the memory in this machine isn't the best quality. 

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Wait what? What's the tape mod?

 

[corrado33]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

 

So it just unlocks the multiplier to 9 instead of 8.5? Does this work on any other 775 CPUs?

 

EDIT: Seems I was wrong. Seems it just increases the FSB from 266 to 333. Which any overclocking board can do in the bios. Cool nonetheless. 

[aisle9]

1 hour ago, corrado33 said:

I'm confused, why would you NOT use the 9400? It has higher stock clock speeds and the same number of cores?

 

This thread is funnily relevant to what I'm doing right now.

 

I OCed a 6600 and I think i got it to somewhere around 3 GHz.

 

Now I'm OCing a 9500 on the same system and I'm up to 3.74 GHz stable. I'm not sure how much further I can go because the memory in this machine isn't the best quality. 

If the OP has a custom system and can overclock it to 3.2-ish, the 9400 starts looking better. If they're on a locked down OEM board, the Q6600 with a tape mod is the way to go.

[silverjay928]

2 hours ago, aisle9 said:

If the OP has a custom system and can overclock it to 3.2-ish, the 9400 starts looking better. If they're on a locked down OEM board, the Q6600 with a tape mod is the way to go.

I have a really nice board I'll post it in the original post and right here 

[Sebastian.Heyn]

I sold my q9400 and bought a X5460 an modded it to fit the mobo. (I have a p5b deluxe and there was a modified bios available)

Maybe thats a thing to consider if you wan to squeeze the very last out of the existing motherboard

[NelizMastr]

The Q9400 is worth it for the newer Penryn architecture alone. I'd personally look for a Q9x50 chip though, as they have way more cache and that should help as well. With hardware as old as this, you really need to maximize your performance.