Currently thinking about upgrading to replace my 3 year old X2 4200+ with 1GB of ram; which is pretty adequate for what I do at the moment, but I feel it's time for a change.
I plan to do some light overclocking with a decent HSF, but not anything hardcore. I've narrowed down my choice to getting a P5Q and DDR2-800 (or DDR2-1066 if someone talks me into it), but not sure about which CPU to get.
The Q6600 is about $150 cheaper (Canada) than the Q9550 so price wise it seem more favorable; however, the Q9550 has more cache, and I guess better "future-proof" as I don't upgrade frequently and I don't really care about i7 (unless it will push down the price soon).
So I guess my question is, what's better in a long term? Personally, I'm leaning toward the Q9550 from all the thread I read, but the price of Q6600 is too damn hard to resist.
ps. Anyone tried buying from Newegg Canada? (ie. not get raped by the custom fee, tax, etc.)
pss. I have Radeon 1950xt, yup, replacing it maybe in December when I get more money but I don't really play game much anyway. (Usually browsing, coding, matlab, some encoding, etc.)
I plan to do some light overclocking with a decent HSF, but not anything hardcore. I've narrowed down my choice to getting a P5Q and DDR2-800 (or DDR2-1066 if someone talks me into it), but not sure about which CPU to get.
The Q6600 is about $150 cheaper (Canada) than the Q9550 so price wise it seem more favorable; however, the Q9550 has more cache, and I guess better "future-proof" as I don't upgrade frequently and I don't really care about i7 (unless it will push down the price soon).
So I guess my question is, what's better in a long term? Personally, I'm leaning toward the Q9550 from all the thread I read, but the price of Q6600 is too damn hard to resist.
ps. Anyone tried buying from Newegg Canada? (ie. not get raped by the custom fee, tax, etc.)
pss. I have Radeon 1950xt, yup, replacing it maybe in December when I get more money but I don't really play game much anyway. (Usually browsing, coding, matlab, some encoding, etc.)