I know 3DMark03 is dated, but it is nostalgic, and I still use it to run older cards.
Should a Core 2 Q6600 @ 3.2 (and I know I can run it at 3.6 but forget the score) with 400x8 and 8GB of DDR2 @ ram handily outperform an Athlon II X3 450 @ 3.7 with 247X15 and 8GB of DDR2? The Core 2 Q6600 is running HD 4850 and gets 60K scores, but the Athlon II X3 450 is running HD 6850 and I think 42K was my highest score.
This are the two weakest computers in my gaming lab, and I do not mind pushing them or even accidently breaking them. I was not going to use the Athlon II X3 450 but I kept stealing the 775 heatsinks for 1155 CPUs, and the Athlon II X3 450 had an Artic Freezer Pro on it for AMD CPUs. So it just makes sense to use this setup rather than another Q6600 or Q6700 that I have with more generic heatsinks.
So I pushed the Athlon II X3 450 and am very happy with a stable and cool 3.7 overclock.
I know the Q6600 is better, but is it really that much better? Do these numbers lie? I am not going to try anything newer than 2015 games, so is the Q6600 that much better? Or is the HD 5850 really that much better than the HD 6850?
I unlocked the 4th core of the Athlon II X3 450 and it turned into a Phenom X4. I have not played with it much, but I threw caution to the wind and booted it up with my stable 3.7 overclock settings and got into Windows. The temps were much higher like I have read about, in the 50s instead of the 20s at idle.
I ran 3DMark03 with the Phenom X4 @ 3.7 and still only got 42K for a score. I ran Prime95 and it crashed instantly, so I went back to the X3. Maybe I will play with it later, but I think X3 @ 3.7 will be better than X4 @ 3.5, if I can even go that far with it, but it did load windows and run 3DMaek03.
Anyway, I can do some heatsink exchanging and replace the Athlon II X3 450 with another Q6600 in an ASUS P5K-e SLI motherboard. But it felt good to have this AMD setup in the mix, and I really wanted it to perform better.
Should a Core 2 Q6600 @ 3.2 (and I know I can run it at 3.6 but forget the score) with 400x8 and 8GB of DDR2 @ ram handily outperform an Athlon II X3 450 @ 3.7 with 247X15 and 8GB of DDR2? The Core 2 Q6600 is running HD 4850 and gets 60K scores, but the Athlon II X3 450 is running HD 6850 and I think 42K was my highest score.
This are the two weakest computers in my gaming lab, and I do not mind pushing them or even accidently breaking them. I was not going to use the Athlon II X3 450 but I kept stealing the 775 heatsinks for 1155 CPUs, and the Athlon II X3 450 had an Artic Freezer Pro on it for AMD CPUs. So it just makes sense to use this setup rather than another Q6600 or Q6700 that I have with more generic heatsinks.
So I pushed the Athlon II X3 450 and am very happy with a stable and cool 3.7 overclock.
I know the Q6600 is better, but is it really that much better? Do these numbers lie? I am not going to try anything newer than 2015 games, so is the Q6600 that much better? Or is the HD 5850 really that much better than the HD 6850?
I unlocked the 4th core of the Athlon II X3 450 and it turned into a Phenom X4. I have not played with it much, but I threw caution to the wind and booted it up with my stable 3.7 overclock settings and got into Windows. The temps were much higher like I have read about, in the 50s instead of the 20s at idle.
I ran 3DMark03 with the Phenom X4 @ 3.7 and still only got 42K for a score. I ran Prime95 and it crashed instantly, so I went back to the X3. Maybe I will play with it later, but I think X3 @ 3.7 will be better than X4 @ 3.5, if I can even go that far with it, but it did load windows and run 3DMaek03.
Anyway, I can do some heatsink exchanging and replace the Athlon II X3 450 with another Q6600 in an ASUS P5K-e SLI motherboard. But it felt good to have this AMD setup in the mix, and I really wanted it to perform better.