3700+ @ 2.8GHz versus E6300's oC'ing abilities?

Kaiju · 4 Dec 2006 at 05:33

I've got the 3700+ oC'ed to 2.8GHz, some nice timings with some OCZ EB sticks and a Asus A8N32 Deluxe.

How will the cheapest Conroe bundle at OCUK compare in performance?

How is the E6300's overclocking abilities?

Should I really be looking at a E6600, some better RAM such as GSkill?

Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6300 1.86GHz Retail / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 1GB GeIL PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle

SameSuspect · 4 Dec 2006 at 08:12

im not brilliant at this sort of stuff but im sure the e6300 would woop ass because its dual core with 2mb cache, and the fact its running on ddr2 instead of 1.... An e6300 at 3ghz would be a hell of a push from a 3700+ @ 2.8

Im also turning to conroe this thursday and like you was wondering if the e6600 is worth the extra 100 condidering the e6300 can overclock beyond 3ghz

someone who knows what they are talking about shed some light on this please

Margaret · 4 Dec 2006 at 08:31

e6300 will kick the living crap out of anything AMD has to offer at this time.

Especially a 3700+

FatRakoon · 5 Dec 2006 at 10:06

Im sorry to say this, but I feel that a lot of things are a little hyped.

Here is my own example :-

My conroe, according to benchmarks, absolutely kicks the living No Swearing! out of my best AMD and not by just a little bit either... SuperPI gives me 17 Seconds and Im lucky to get twice that with the AMD.

Ok, So the conroe scores double there.

But...

I Run Folding at Home on both cores, I run it on both the Conroe and my AMD, both cores on both CPUs right...

Now, if I am encoding an AVI File to DVD, on the AMD, Folding gets dumped into the background, it runs at 0% or maybe 1% and both cores get their full quota of CPU power.

End result, is that the encoding gets done in about 20 minutes.

Ok, on the Conroe, the folding does not get dumped in the background, it gets sort of halved, with both folding clients still gettign to run at about 20-25% resulting in the encoding taking... Roughly 20 minutes!

This was my eye opener, its showing that the Conroe kicks the hell out of the AMDs, however, when it comes to multitasking properly, the AMd kicks hell out of the conroe.

End result for me, has been that as I run many many apps at once, I still favour the AMD.