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    E6300 or E6600?

    Just thinking I have my system planned to buy in Jan/Feb which is P5B deluxe wifi, corsair 2 gig dominator ram, corsair psu, Arctic freezer pro and plan to OVERCLOCK modestly (cos I can and for fun).

    Well it seems to me I'm gonna spend at least about £300 for motherboard and ram and put a £100 cpu (E6300) in.
    So my question is:- is there any point in paying extra for a E6600....will re-coding videos work that much faster, similar for other programs so what do I gain?

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    www.tomshardware.co.uk
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    good places to start your research with the sort of comparisons you're looking for. Essentially if you can afford it go for the faster one. Whether those speed increases in various tasks is worth it is really a personal choice
    Last edited by jamena; 19-12-2006 at 12:42 PM.

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    ^To echo Jamena I'd say go for the 6600 if you can afford it.

    I've got one in my back-up PC and I've been very impressed with it.. again it's horses for courses/prices/personal choice though and YMMV of course..

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamena View Post
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    good places to start your research with the sort of comparisons you're looking for. Essentially if you can afford it go for the faster one. Whether those speed increases in various tasks is worth it is really a personal choice
    First thing I spotted on Toms was:-

    INTEL HAS SILENTLY improved its Core 2 Duo line-up for e6300 and e6400? Not sure whether it's on paper or in a design change.

    Well it does seem logical to get the balance right on an upgrade, otherwise the cost of getting good ram/motherboard to get a e6300 to say 2.8ghz is offset by buying an e6600 with cheap motherboard and cheap ram and overclocking very slightly to the same speed i.e. 2.8ghz

    Interesting to know which setup is faster as the E6600 has 4mb cache.

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    Well with a great motherboard, both cpus will overclock to the same speed and the only difference will be cache..iirc then anad benched the difference at about 5% average...divx encoding got about a 10% boost though from the xtra cache. So if you are planning on doing a lot of encoding then it might well be worth it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by funnelhead View Post
    Well with a great motherboard, both cpus will overclock to the same speed and the only difference will be cache..iirc then anad benched the difference at about 5% average...divx encoding got about a 10% boost though from the xtra cache. So if you are planning on doing a lot of encoding then it might well be worth it.
    TA.....and will have to look at Anand tonight, what I need is a "shootout" e6300 versus e6600 and what do you gain in the real world.
    But it does seem if you want to go over 3ghz the e6600 seems to be the better choice.
    There used to be an overclocking site (used it about 5 years ago) where you typed in the cpu and got the results for what it could achieve, even down to best week numbers, codes etc and where made.

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    go half way and get the 6400
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    I had a 6300 and a 6600 and they were both in an asus p5b deluxe and the e6300 went higher with less voltage. The 6300 also went to around 3200 at under stock volts, whereas the 6600 wont go much above 2.8 without a large bump in vcore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by excalibur2 View Post
    First thing I spotted on Toms was:-

    INTEL HAS SILENTLY improved its Core 2 Duo line-up for e6300 and e6400? Not sure whether it's on paper or in a design change.
    They've just improved the C1E state, so they use less voltage when idle. No speed improvement.

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    E6300 spend more on Ram or a PSU

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    I'm going for the E6300, simply because I don't want to spend all my money on my C2D rig just now, I would rather wait until the quad core processors come down in price a bit.

    I mean £630 is more than I'm willing to spend on any single component...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    I had a 6300 and a 6600 and they were both in an asus p5b deluxe and the e6300 went higher with less voltage. The 6300 also went to around 3200 at under stock volts, whereas the 6600 wont go much above 2.8 without a large bump in vcore.
    Ermm no convincing argument then, that a E6600 is a must have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulm@scan View Post
    go half way and get the 6400
    Probably another Intel fiddle......just like the old days when people were paying extra for a P160 when the P150 was exactly the same cpu, it was so easy to bump the P150 to P160 speed by just changing the jumper on the motherboard.
    Last edited by excalibur2; 20-12-2006 at 01:33 AM. Reason: correction P155 should be P150

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    Personaly I would buy the E6300 now as the 6600 is only 10% or faster, and then in a year or so, buy a quad core CPU that will offer a much more substantal improvement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by excalibur2 View Post
    Ermm no convincing argument then, that a E6600 is a must have.

    I kept the 6600 as that is in a watercooled setup and the temps are fine, but either would have done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CrazyMonkey View Post
    E6300 spend more on Ram or a PSU
    err well 2 gig ram should be enough for a while, and the cheaper corsair psu should be ok as I'm not into £300 graphic cards.

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