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£100 ish to spend on CPU

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Got £100-£120 to spend on a CPU (775). Would it be best to get the E6550 or is it worth the extra for the E6750? Also, is there any point spending this much or should I just get the E4300/4500 and overclock that? This is going on a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R mobo btw.

Sorry if this has been posted, but I'm looking to buy soon, and am not currently up with components.
 
I've just bought a DS3R and an E2140 with the cheap 4gb ocz memory - I've got it running stable at 3.2ghz....

I think overclocking is about getting something for nothing... save your money it's christmas in three weeks!!!
 
negger said:
I've just bought a DS3R and an E2140 with the cheap 4gb ocz memory - I've got it running stable at 3.2ghz....

I think overclocking is about getting something for nothing... save your money it's christmas in three weeks!!!
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cheers for that :)
 
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here Hai
I was thinking along the lines and was saving up for a E6750 in the new year for a new system upgrade (goodbye AGP...) and all this talk of E's is making my head spin :)

A few questions if you please:

1) Will the 1MB L2 Cache on the cheaper E2140 make much/any difference in gaming/applications?

2) What can people expect to overclock a E6750 and E2140 up too?

3) Do the steppings on both this CPUs vary dramatically in terms of OC performance gain?

4) Which chip runs cooler for overclocking ?

5) What are the pros and cons of both chips (apart from the money difference)

Many thanks!

S!ap
 
hi S!lap, being as im in the same boat (but already have PCI-e)

On looking around (see overclocking forum) the E2180 will go to 3.2 quite easily so beats the E66xx or matches them when they are overclocked and from what i can gather not a lot!
so save yourself £100 and just overclock it! but not sure on the cache side becuase the E2180 has 1Mb but the later CPUs have 4Mb
 
Hi ShiWarrior and thanks for the info.

Yes a hundred quid is a massive savings and makes good sense any day of the week :)

When I compare the Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail at £119.84 inc VAT to the
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail at £55.21 inc VAT,
there is a difference of £64, also the E6750 has a higher FSB and 4 MB L2 cache and is clocked at 2.66 GHz default.

I don't really know what this extra FSB and L2 cache of the E6750 means in the real gaming terms and performance in general and would like to know if having the E6750 with it's 2.66 GHz means it can be pushed that much higher than the E2180's with its 2.0 GHz default speed.

Thanks again

S!ap
 
Hi Slap

I asked a simlar question a couple of months ago about the L2 and was told that in gaming there is not a lot of differences only when doing the likes of video encoding is there an advantage.
 
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