What ram are you using. I am baulking at the £250+ pricetag of 8500 memory but want to get a good watercool overclock. Probably start with air cooling to break up the cost.
So 6600 get's the nod?
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What ram are you using. I am baulking at the £250+ pricetag of 8500 memory but want to get a good watercool overclock. Probably start with air cooling to break up the cost.
So 6600 get's the nod?
If you are pricing the RAM + CPU together, the e6600 does come down a lot. My ram was £165, so ~£80 less than that of the equivalent 8500 stuff.
6400 stuff can take a e6600 to 3.6gig (running at stock) where as the e6400 would run short at 3.2gig.
Add in the extra 2meg L2 on the e6600 and I personally think it's the better deal. I would say that in that case, the e6600 gets the nod.
Great! I'm off to convince the missus. Wish me luck.
I think all purchases at Scan over £200 should come with a free bunch of flowers... Either that or a place to stay for the night :)
Ha, do you think I am brave enough to pose the "honey, I think I need a new computer..." statement before plying my other half with wine, dinner, chocolates and flowers?
the 4mb cache barely does jack for 90 dollars - only on a few proggies like winrar. so if all you do is unzip files get the 6600. the 6400 oc's better anyways.
spend the money elsewhere and do better for your system.
go read 95% of the results on these chips on any forum. they support this analysis.
most of the people saying go 6600 either bought the chip and want to supprot their buy or didnt buy it and just want to get a bigger number
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Thank-you for your input, but please post in a mature and sensible manner please. Consultation of this thread will help you in your future posts.
And that's why the E6600 beats the FX-62 in virtually all the benchies and the E6400 does not? Not because it has twice the cache, but because it has a bigger number?
Cache does make a difference in performance, that's why companies quit chasing after Ghz and focused on architecture and features.
I would advice you to spend the extra $100 bucks, you get double the amount of the L2 cache but also with the E6600 the virtulization technology is enabled. Theses 2 things are not in the E6400.( well u get 2mb L2cache but not 4mb)
Indeedy, though you can still pull pretty high voltage on air.
I'm not sure why you'd want to overclock them chips anyway, I think at this point of performance the reason for doing so is largely academic. Each to his/her own though.
Not saying I wouldn't mind a watercooling right, they look neat and it would cut down on the stack of fans I have, even though they are pretty low individiually, combined together they're still noticable.
It's just money you could put else where :/
Please don't mention not overclocking Core2Duo chips again. I have a nervous headache from that