q6600 vs fx 6100

[Tibeardius]

A friend of mine just gave me a computer that had been damaged while shipping. I figured out it was the motherboard that broke so now I can salvage a good chunk of the pc including the fx-6100 inside. I currently have a q6600. Would it be worth it to buy an AM3+ motherboard and use that or stick with my q6600? I've looked around and couldn't find very good comparisons between the 2 as far as gaming goes. I use my computer for a lot of web surfing, some Google sketchup and gaming. Over clocking has been something I'm interested in but my q6600 motherboard doesn't support it and finding a good LGA 775 mb seems pointless. Whatever I don't use I'll probably just end up selling.

Did I miss any pertinent info?

Tl;dr... Q6600 or fx -6100 better for gaming/in general? Over clocking 6100 is an option.

 

[skitz9417]

i would just oc that fx 6100 if u can get a new board for it

 

[patrick47018]

It'd be more cost effective to OC the 6100

 

[Ravi Gagan]

See this page
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/554/AMD_FX-Series_FX-6100_vs_Intel_Core_2_Quad_Q6600.html

it might help you

 

[Tibeardius]

It looks like the fx6100 kills any threaded but don't games mostly need single thread performance? Is the little whatever the q6600 matter at all? I'm not playing the latest and greatest. The craziest I get off CIC 5 and Skyrim. Other than that mostly stuff like Minecraft and the fallout games.

 

[Tibeardius]

Why is that the cpuworld website give the single threaded performance to the q6600 but passmark says the fx6100 is better at both multi and single threaded?

=257&cmp[]=1038]http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=257&cmp[]=1038

 

[wh3resmycar]

obviously the newer tech is going to win. fx 6100 wins it all.

 

[Vitric9]

I just wan to add that if someone already posted a response that has helped you can pick solution...What type of budget do are you on? I ha a chance to get a decent LGA 775 motherboard(P45 chipset) CPU and RAM for $30. If you came across a deal like that, as long as it all works, That would allow you to save up for other parts. The Core 2 Q6600 is lacking in Technology and Instructions compared to the FX 6100, though with a good p45 MB you can Overclock the Q6660 to 3.0GHz to 3.5GHz on average with good cooling. The Q6600 (at stock 2.4GHz)is actually close in performance in singe-threaded tasks to the FX 6100 and once you OC it the Q6600 would perform better than FX 4100 series CPUs. Note: The Performance would vary in different applications and games. So I do NOT Recommend going out and buying parts for an LGA 775 platform the Core 2 quads performance is not that far behind the AMD 6100 series in most tasks. Obviously things like rendering videos the FX 6100 will do better.