INTEL Q6600 VS AMD Phenom 9700+

OK guys this is where you get to battle it out to show Which qaud is better show me some benchmarks between them,tell me your expereinces with these chips and important information why either of the chips are better and at the end i will be buying which ever one has been proven to be better..
Also im running a 8800 ULTRA with 4 512MB 800MHZ RAM 320GB raid coolit freezer cooler on cpu and gpu asus m2n32 ws pro motherboard with a AMD 4200+ dual core OC to 2.8GHZ so which cpu is best set for my system and which will benifit in games

Phenom is theoretically going to be backwards compatible with am2 boards - theoretically.

you need to update the bios of the board to phenom compatible one and you must ensure your board supports phenom.

otherwise, i would go with q6600 any day. performs much better, doesn't have the TLB problem like the new phenoms, its not exactly a "true single die quad core" but i dont really care about that because i doubt one will see the dfference anyways. besides, they clock better if you want to overclock.

TLB problem:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13741

Compatibility with AM2 "problem"
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12...m_motherboards/

Toms Hardware CPU charts:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

Comparisson Phenom VS q6600
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2...2=871&chart=435

I'm done. i doubt there is much more to say

Q6600 > Phenom

Thanks for the reply,my neibour has the same board as me and has a phenom 9500 2.2GHZ and he OC it to 2.6 with stable temps preformance wise is there a big gap

interactive CPU charts.
The q6600 can also oc - much better than phenoms mind you. people usually get ~ 3 ghz minimum on the Q6600s
plus you dont need to worry about losing 10-25% performance due to a TLB patch.

take that into consideration

i doubt you can say WOOOHOOO PHENOM FTW!!!!!!

because the phenom 9700 is beaten by the Q6600 already at stock speeds - the Q6600 probably overclocks further in terms of mhz than the phenom - thus the only reasonw hy you would go with phenom is if you dont want to buy a new board and that your current board supports phenom.

Well there is one reason to go with phenom. Its a cheaper setup to get up and running if your looking for quad core.

mmm true right intels are way better i totally agree but would it be worth my money to buy a new motherboard and get the q6600,would i get better fraps in crysis than i would with the phenom

FRAPs or FPS

FPS is mostly GPU dependent.
Fraps is cpu dependent

Answer to both is Yes, depending on the GPU of course. if you have a geforce 6200, you probably wotn get that much more fps - close to none in fact. but if you have a triple sli config - the q6600 will provide less of a bottleneck than the phenom.

well i have a 8800 Ultra with 2GB 800MHZ ram 4x512MB and will be getting another 8800 ultra soon so from your last post it seems to me that going with the phenom is ok but q6600 is best all im wanting is a really good gaming machine with a cpu thats not going to hold me back in future games so thanks alot i will be getting the phenom but the 2.2 GHZ and OC it to 2.6 so if you think this is good please reply as going to decide tomorrow and order it cheers DAN

Also whats the difference between fraps and FPS

fraps is a program used for getting screenshots and creating videos from your game.
fps is frames per second (fraps can actually display this while running).