[John Cantu]

Hi guys,

I recently saw this deal on tigerdirect and wanted to buy 3 of these to make a quick render farm. Does anyone know if the 6700 price is going to drop a lot more, as this seems to be the case when diger direct has a deal. I want to build 3 of these to have a nice little farm including my current two cpu's. Would be nice to get the qx but am going for bang for my buck.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... 780I-Q6700

John

[numerobis]

i think this could be a B3 stepping

better chose one of those...

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Q6600-Quad- ... 241&sr=8-1
SLACR, with G0 stepping !!!
$254.99
+
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-P5K-LGA775-2 ... 431&sr=1-5
$150.61

= $405,60


You should be able to clock this baby with 3GHz or more on stock voltages... or only 2.66GHz if you want to have a Q6700

[John Cantu]

It says its G0 in the specs.

Interesting link-
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9615
John

[numerobis]

It says its G0 in the specs.

ahh.. ok
...but still too expensive

[Micha]

Here are three Q6600 + P5K + Zalman 9700 running at 3.4GHz at lowest fan speed. For my renderfarm I bought the cheapest graphic cards GeForce7600GT (XP64 driver driect from nvidia, not from install CD).

[glebe digital]

I don't know if this helps anyone, but I spent a bit of time with a calculator a while back.......here's a partially complete 'value index' for processor speed/cost.
Higher the index, better the value per ghz.............doesn't take into account the rest of the system build, but I didn't get that far.

Interesting reading? if not let me know and I'll bin it from the thread.

[Micha]

My experience is, that overclocked CPUs can be linear calculated, so a Q6600 at 3.4GHz would need 33s - full render power for lowest price.

[glebe digital]

I'm in full agreement there Micha.

What surprised me was the Athlon X2 +4400............if dual-core was still 'viable' then I'd buy as many of those as I could lay my hand on.

[Bubbaloo]

I'm in full agreement there Micha.

What surprised me was the Athlon X2 +4400............if dual-core was still 'viable' then I'd buy as many of those as I could lay my hand on.

I have one I'll sell ya...
It's like a bully. All alone, he's not so tough, but when he's with his friends...

[Micha]

OT: I'm not up-to-date: if I want to stay at this 775 socket road, what will bring this year? Will we see more cores per CPU?

[numerobis]

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... highlight=

[Micha]

... if this CPU can be overclocked like the Q6600, than it would allow +50% - not bad.