E6550 - Where have they gone?

[Froggy1988]

Hey, I'm building a new system soon and I've noticed that the E6550 is no longer on the market, OcUk and various other retailers. The reason I wanted this is because I remember it being around £60 - mid range with the best spec for that price, especially the 4MB cache. If I remember it was a Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz with 1066 FSB.

Are these still around or what? As I don't want to fork out an extra £15 for E7200 with a 3MB Cache.

Thanks

 

[nightmare99]

That price sounds cheap for a E6550 they have not really been that cheap maybe you wree looking at a clearance one. E7200 is the cheapest Core 2 Duo.

 

[pastymuncher]

They were around £100 or even more. Get a second hand E6600 off the bay for £50-60. Some have even been going for as little as £41. I got mine from there and it's a beauty.

 

[Kelt]

Hey, I'm building a new system soon and I've noticed that the E6550 is no longer on the market, OcUk and various other retailers. The reason I wanted this is because I remember it being around £60 - mid range with the best spec for that price, especially the 4MB cache. If I remember it was a Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz with 1066 FSB.

Are these still around or what? As I don't want to fork out an extra £15 for E7200 with a 3MB Cache.

Thanks

E5200 is an option, seems to be a good clocker. 45nm tech as well.

 

[gurusan]

yes i would go with the E5200. Should do 3.6-3.8ghz possibly 4ghz

much better than the E6550 at least

 

[Lightnix]

The E6550 was a processor with a 1333MHz FSB, 65nm, was a bit limited overclocking wise compared to its bigger brother the E6750 (and E6850, too), but I was pretty sure it was around £100 average retail price around the time it went out, chances are the £60 price tag was just to shift stock to make room for the newer E8000 series.

 

[BornEvil]

I had 1 and can also confirm it is 1333mhz FSB. All e6550 are g0 revisions and regarded as very good overclockers. But at the time of release, people were buying q6600 g0 as they were better at a little bit more expensive.

They were never that cheap

 

[gt_junkie]

Go the extra £12 and get the e7200.

Lovely little chips. Have mine on a low voltage test - presently on 1.1v at stock clocks. In fact, will probably do under 1v for that eventually.

Of course for overclocking there's no reason you couldn't get 3.8-4ghz with a decent mobo and fast memory.

Incidentally, what mobo and ram are you using?

gt

 

[Froggy1988]

Well, I don't know where I got the 1066FSB and £60 price tag. I'm probably mixxing it up with something else.

I'm using an ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i chipset motherboard - I wouldn't choose this myself although I was given it for free, which is the reason I'm deciding to build a new budget rig. Memory will be 4GB (2x2GB) 800Mhz sticks of either; G-Skill PQ, Kingston HyperX OR OCZ gold series. I'm still to decide on that.
I'll be using an arctic freezer 7, Noctua NC-U6 NB cooler (with a fan bodged on) and either a 8600GT or if i find the cash an 8800GT.

The whole thing is going to be built on my desk for a few months as my money situation is so tight. I've pretty much now decided on the E5200. I wonder how the overclock will go without a case

 

[Kelt]

Snip...

I wonder how the overclock will go without a case

Cooler probably!