sstamfb Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Happy new year to everyone! I'm going to set up a new pc and i would like to hear your opinions about the extreme quad qx9650 processor. thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 It's expensive - twice as expensive as a Q6700. Unless you already know that there's a good reason for you to have a Yorkfield instead of a Kentsfield, or an Extreme instead of a normal Quad, it's not worth the extra money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Happy new year to everyone! I'm going to set up a new pc and i would like to hear your opinions about the extreme quad qx9650 processor. thanks!! relax Stamatis Buy Q6600 and for the extra money you choose some 27" or 30" display or 8GB of RAM, or maybe Onazis is your uncle?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstamfb Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 hi all, Andrew i have read some statistics where this processor is really faster than the simple quad. I'm trying to compare the "result/cost" between this and the rest extreme processors 6850,6700 etc... Zika, even the more demanding scene can be controlled with 4gb ram....... but the time can not, and as you know time is money thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTECmedia Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Q 6600 is the best choice. Perfectly overcklocked at 3.2ghz. Stable, reliable and CHEAP + 4gb RAM + GForce 8600GTS . This are the best choice. Cheap and fast. It's up to you about the speed and quality, not the CPU at this stage of hadware good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I'd agree, except to add that to get those speeds you will need a good MB, RAM, power supply, case and CPU cooler - but you'd want all that anyway with an Extreme. Also and 8600GTS is fairly weak - go for an 8800GT. It's important to note that, at the same GHz, a Yorkfield will not outperform a Kentsfield in rendering - benchmarks on tomshardware.com show this. The advantage is in overclocking - people on very high end motherboards with very high end coolers have been able to get higher overclocks with the QX9 than the QX8. This kind of "extreme" computing is better suited to the home gamer than the office because of the higher risk of something going wrong - usually people are much more conservative in overclocking an office PC. Given the prices here - you'd be hard pressed to make the PC cost under $2000 - maybe you'd be better off with a dual-quad Xeon. I don't know what exactly PC vendors are selling but Apple just updated the Mac Pro and a dual-quad 2.8GHz upgraded to an 8800GT is $3000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 hi all, Andrew i have read some statistics where this processor is really faster than the simple quad. I'm trying to compare the "result/cost" between this and the rest extreme processors 6850,6700 etc... Zika, even the more demanding scene can be controlled with 4gb ram....... but the time can not, and as you know time is money thanks guys Whats the price for the qx9650 in Greece? If you buy it, do not forget to play with multi, 'cause as you know it is unlocked CPU and you can easily push it nearly 4GHz on proper mobo. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstamfb Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 it is very expensive... x4 the price of q6600 and costs 950 euros. An important advantage of the qx9650 is the flexibility in overclocking. I think i'm not an expert on this, but as far as i know is not difficult to gain some extra power (4ghz). On the other hand, somebody could say why don't you build two pcs with that money.......but i'm not sure if a huge scene will be rendered faster in a farm of two q6600 than from the qx9650 alone... thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 it is very expensive... x4 the price of q6600 and costs 950 euros. An important advantage of the qx9650 is the flexibility in overclocking. I think i'm not an expert on this, but as far as i know is not difficult to gain some extra power (4ghz). On the other hand, somebody could say why don't you build two pcs with that money.......but i'm not sure if a huge scene will be rendered faster in a farm of two q6600 than from the qx9650 alone... thanks ok, I understood, but q6600 can easily go up to 3-3.2Ghz with almost box cooling and no voltage rising. (2nd PC should have only enough RAM, 80GB HDD+mobo+PSU.) 950€ is still to much expensive for 0.8GHz extra clock, but as always choice is yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 ok, I understood, but q6600 can easily go up to 3-3.2Ghz with almost box cooling and no voltage rising. (2nd PC should have only enough RAM, 80GB HDD+mobo+PSU.) 950€ is still to much expensive for 0.8GHz extra clock, but as always choice is yours. I just built 3 rendering machines with quad 6600 processors and find them to be pretty damn quick already. I'm just using the standard CPU fan and cooler master case fan. Would it be dangerous to overclock them to 3 - 3.2Ghz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I just built 3 rendering machines with quad 6600 processors and find them to be pretty damn quick already. I'm just using the standard CPU fan and cooler master case fan. Would it be dangerous to overclock them to 3 - 3.2Ghz? Craig, Did you build them from scratch, ie sourced all your own parts and put it together, or use one of these custom websites? We need to get a couple of new machines, and I am looking at the Q6600's. Its ebay really for a price thats not ridiculous. What did your custom builds end up costing..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Craig, Did you build them from scratch, ie sourced all your own parts and put it together, or use one of these custom websites? We need to get a couple of new machines, and I am looking at the Q6600's. Its ebay really for a price thats not ridiculous. What did your custom builds end up costing..? Yep I just built them myself because I just don't trust these people that build and sell on Ebay, at least if I build them myself I know exactly what's in them. The machines cost exactly £444 each to buy all the parts. You could do it cheaper but I went for cooler master cases that have a lot of venting on them, these were about £30 more expensive than a basic case. Specs of the machines: Core 2 Quad 6600 ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard 2GB DDR2 RAM 80GB SATA hard disk PNY 128MB graphics card 550W PSU Cooler Master case I would have gone for more ram but I find 2GB to be enough with XP64 if I make good use of V-ray proxies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 £444 each.. thats a really good price. You just use them as render machines as well..? With a little tweaking they could be good machines for actually working on as well. Do you source parts locally, or is it an internet search for the cheapest bits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 £444 each.. thats a really good price. You just use them as render machines as well..? With a little tweaking they could be good machines for actually working on as well. Do you source parts locally, or is it an internet search for the cheapest bits? Yeah I just use them for rendering on. My main workstation is an athlon X2 with a Quadro graphics card which is good enough. If I need extra power for test rendering I can use V-ray distributed rendering or just send a file to the farm via backburner. I bought the parts in Glasgow from this place Ideal Computer Systems. I have had a hunt but I can't seem to find their website, sorry. You could probably source the parts from the internet and do it cheaper. I hear http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Lovely job.. cheers Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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