e6550 or e4300 - Which will be easiest to over clock?

[colincliff]

I have a e6550 and an e4300 on its way. I am hoping to out one of them in my main rig and overclock it to about 3ghz.

I had originally thought that the e6550 would be the easiest to to this with as it is the faster chip, but i have recently read alot of people having 3ghz+ success with the e4300 by just raising the fsb to 333.

i'll be running them on a GA-G33M-DS2R motherboard with Corsair Twinx DDR2 PC5400 ram.
I really want to start over clocking the ram so i am looking at the easiest overclock to around 3.0ghz, and i will be staying with the basic stock cooling at the moment.

Any ideas as to which of these chips would be the best for a simple overclock. I dont want to spend any more money!

[excalibur2]

Well I found the E2140 went higher than the E4300 at stock volts (memory and CPU)..............on my E4300 I seem to hit a wall around 3ghz and I didn't bother to try and go higher as my cooler was the weakest link.
Anyway the E4300 should go to 3ghz very easily.

[WannaPiEcE]

Yes IMO if you could find a decent Conroe e4300 or e4400, I would imagine you would have a healthier overclock compared to a e6550, reason being that to overclock a e6550 to 3.0Ghz you would have to have to FSB set to 1715Mhz(QDR), whereas on a e4300 you would only have to raise the FSB to 1333Mhz(QDR).

It seems less voltages would be needed to support the e4300 overclock efficiently.

[colincliff]

Thanks for the advice, that is good news, means that dont have to remove the cpu from my current system.