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I am struggling making a decision whether to get a q6600 wo/SSE4 or the $120 more expensive q9450 w/SSE4 instructions. Ive read that the SSE4 instructions can speed up the encoding process up to 105%, which I am skeptical about. I will be doing alot of x264 and xvid encoding on this new machine that im putting together and im wondering if anyone has ever seen a major difference in encoding times like Intel claims.
clock for clock, you're talking more like 8-12%, which is still pretty nice. whatever you get, you need to overclock it. The Q9450 is almost twice the cost of a Q6600 though, so I would not get the newer CPU.
I just got a Q9450. Not a bad chip at all. I mainly went with it for the larger cache and faster FSB without OCing too much. I've only got it up to 3.2Ghz but it's rock stable and fast as hell.:)
Stuck it on a Asus Maximus Formula II with 8GB of OCZ Platinum 1066. Although I had to drop the RAM to 800mhz to get all 8GB to run stable.
Nice... memory speeds are overrated imo anyway... :)