A system to last another 3 years?

[clocker]

You're entitled to your opinion.

[Vamp]

Should I rather go for the Intel Core2 Quadro 9300?

[kondrae]

9300 - if you have the extra bucks, sure. it runs cooler, more OC and has more cache. wont see a big diff though.

i also read that intel's nehalem will be much better for video stuff, but not games (http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480)
nehalem will launch end of this year/next year so prices will fall for the prev. gen. stuff
maybe u should wait before the full upgrade

[Detale]

Both the 775 socket and the Q6600 have already had their three years in the sun and are about to be discontinued.
I'd wait six months and see what's what.

I guess u hvnt seen the latest Q6600 results .. They are better performing than the new 8400 .. will post a link as soon as i remember it ..
As for update now is not the time .. You should probably wait till Jan end .

I own both 8400 and 6600 The 6600 on my main rig and the 8400 on the HTPC. True they are about the same but the wolfie has 1333 FSB instead of 1066 and can OC WAAAAY better , as previously said it's cooler and uses less juice(elec), so it has more advantages than the quad as of now. The 1366 nelhams that are coming out so the price will come down on the older stuff that IMHO is still fantastic so deff wait till at least Jan Feb to get anything.

I'm hoping to make my next hardware upgrade coincide with the release of Windows7

Oh I'll be right there with you on a side note i read somewhere that the Apogee GTZ will have a bracket to support 1366 sockets maybe I'll be finished with the loop by then. Again you rock with the recomendations man!

might as well bite the whole enchilada.

MMMM enchiladas

[peat moss]

I was trying to say that Q6600 is still a good buy if you want to upgrade if u r building gaming machine as the new gpu will choke on dual cores presently available and rest of the quad cores arent VFM ..

I smiled reading this as that's the chip I have , in a year I'll by a new mobo , Cpu , ddr3 memory and new video card . I'll keep my case and PSU and start all over .


By the way that was not a dig as I read all the Overclockers boards and read about the new chips and ddr3 memory before my purchase of the Q6600 about 6 months ago . The ddr3 memory has a problem with multitasking ? WTF !