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E6300, E6400 or E6600?

GSDog

GSDog

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Hi all,

I'm upgrading my parents PC but I'm on a very restricted budget so I'm having to buy all of the components second hand.

I've pretty much decided that the best CPU to buy will probably be one of the ones listed above, but I need to know which one will probably overclock best.
Also, I understand that there are different versions of the above CPUs, which ones should be the best clockers?

It'll be paired with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard.

Many thanks in advance.
 
Justintime said:
E6600 will do well, highest multi of all and 2mb more cache. My L629B hit 3.8Ghz on something like 1.31v.
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Thanks.
So the E6600 should be the best for overclocking then. To be honest it'll be going in my parents PC so I won't be doing any serious overclocking; I'll be happy if it can reach 3Ghz, and from reading most of the reviews any of those CPUs should hopefully reach that clock with ease.

The thing that's confusing me at the moment is the different versions of each CPU. The E6400 for example has two different "sSpec Numbers".
SL9S9: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S9
and
SL9T9: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9T9

What's the difference between the two?
I've been offered a E6400 SL9T9 but I don't know if it'll be any good at overclocking.
 
GSDog said:
Thanks.
So the E6600 should be the best for overclocking then. To be honest it'll be going in my parents PC so I won't be doing any serious overclocking; I'll be happy if it can reach 3Ghz, and from reading most of the reviews any of those CPUs should hopefully reach that clock with ease.

The thing that's confusing me at the moment is the different versions of each CPU. The E6400 for example has two different "sSpec Numbers".
SL9S9: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S9
and
SL9T9: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9T9

What's the difference between the two?
I've been offered a E6400 SL9T9 but I don't know if it'll be any good at overclocking.
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Those cpus should do 3Ghz at or even below stock voltage. I'm assuming since the first is a B2 and the second is an L2 that the second is a newer revision and in theory might stand to OC more, however theres probably little or nothing in it.
 
The pentium e6500 is nice but you need quite decent RAM/mobo combo to get the most out of it. The e5X00 are also very nice 45nm chips and thanks to the 800MHz starting FSB they'll overclock well with almost any RAM/mobo (within reason).
 
Thanks for the replies.

My budget was very low so I couldn't stretch to a 45nm chip. I had £100 to buy a CPU, motherboard, RAM, GFX card and CPU cooler. I've managed to get the lot for £97 inc delivery. :D

I got an E6300 in the end for £22.50 inc delivery which I'm hoping should get to 3Ghz.
 
Ah well if the cpu only cost you that much then yeh easily better to get that, i was thinking u would be paying closer to £50 for it lol, nice buy.
 
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