http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Performance of Intel Q6600 quad processor en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:56:45 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/performance-of-intel-q6600-quad-processor#post-25600 Wed, 21 May 2008 18:23:00 +0000 whs 25600@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I kind of figured that. Do you think it's worth to exchange some of the components? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/performance-of-intel-q6600-quad-processor#post-25570 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:04:53 +0000 The Geek 25570@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I think part of the problem is likely that Dell is well known for including the worst possible motherboards/components in their budget computers, which is why they are always so cheap, but really underpowered compared to a better machine.</p> <p>Since the SP1 installation is not processor intensive, it's much more likely that the problem is slower bus/hard drive in the dell. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/performance-of-intel-q6600-quad-processor#post-25568 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:56:52 +0000 whs 25568@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>As an investment into the future, I ordered my Dell Inspiron with an Intel Q6600 and 4GB of RAM. After a little experience with it by now, I find it to be a real slowpoke. I compare it to my HP with AMD Duo 4800+ and 3 GB of RAM. The HP is a lot faster. Example. The Vista SP1 installation (without the download) took nearly twice as long on the Q6600 than on the 4800+. Also other normal day to day operations seem to be a lot slower. My prime suspect is the FSB which is twice as fast on the AMD than on the Intel. Cycle timing, memory and disk are about the same - so hard to find the difference there.<br /> I saw that some of you have the Q6600. I would be interested to hear about your experience. </p>