6600 or 6700 for new build?

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:34

Well, these two chips have just had their prices cut. I was going to plump for the E6600 but the E6700 has had a massive £100+ slashed off the price down to £209. The E6600 on the other hand has had a much more conservative price cut of £40 down to the £150 mark. Which to get?

Shopping list so far:
Asus P5N32-E SLI NF680i SLI
2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600/E6700
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Any advice?

braz2kuk · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:39

Hi, best to stick with the E6600 in my opinion they tend to clock better than the E6700 and there cheaper to

i have my E6600 at 3.5Ghz and i'm about to go onto watercooling so hopefully i can get another 200mhz out of it.

However if you have not bought your stuff i waould not buy the motherboard as of yet, DFI are about to release there NF680i board which looks really good, DFI boards are renound for overclocking, i think there ebing released week comencing 30/4/07 but the choice is yours.

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:44

Thanks for the advice. I think i'll stick with the Asus as i've found a good deal on it. I'll be happy if i can get my E6600 up to 3Ghz. I should be able to do that with parts i've selected shouldn't i?

Ronaldo · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:46

e6700 waste of money get a e6600 and clock it, they normally do 3.2ghz

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:56

You reckon the price on the E6600 will drop any lower than £150 next week?

braz2kuk · 21 Apr 2007 at 10:58

Nope

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 11:05

So it's safe to order today? Excellent, my finger is itching to push the buy button

braz2kuk · 21 Apr 2007 at 11:15

Do It

You will not be disappointed

maybe chnage your ram for the ballistix if they have them in as its good OCing ram. Apart form that your all good to go.

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 11:23

I had decided on Ballistix but a review i read put the Corsair and also Mushkin ahead of it. I can get hold of the Ballistix for £6 cheaper.

Nelly · 21 Apr 2007 at 14:22

Problem with the latest E6600's is the majority of them are not as good as the older batches i.e L628 to L632 batches.

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 14:36

Should i go for the 6700 then?

Nelly · 21 Apr 2007 at 16:44

citizen__erased said:
Should i go for the 6700 then?

Well, you said you wanted to achieve 3.2ghz right? Maybe buy a E6420 2.13GHz it has 4mb cache with an 8 multi, it is £20 cheaper than the E6600. No overclock is guaranteed but if I was you I would probally go for that cpu.

Or if you can find a second-hand E6600 with batch numbers L627, L628, L629, L630, L631, L632 then aquire one of those.

I have an L628B E6600 which did 3.6 GHz @ 1.45 volts on my Abit QuadGT.

Just remember no overclock is guaranteed, its the luck of the draw if you aquire a good processor.

barnettgs · 21 Apr 2007 at 17:34

Nelly said:
Problem with the latest E6600's is the majority of them are not as good as the older batches i.e L628 to L632 batches.

Hmm, is it about overclocking or is there something I have missed?

Nelly · 21 Apr 2007 at 17:40

barnettgs said:
Hmm, is it about overclocking or is there something I have missed?

citizen__erased said:
Thanks for the advice. I think i'll stick with the Asus as i've found a good deal on it. I'll be happy if i can get my E6600 up to 3Ghz. I should be able to do that with parts i've selected shouldn't i?

Atom · 21 Apr 2007 at 19:09

Not fancy the E6300? Mine is currently running at 3.22 ghz stable.

Cupra · 21 Apr 2007 at 19:47

you are very unlucky not to see 3.4 from an e6600 tbh

gurusan · 21 Apr 2007 at 21:15

i'd get a e6300/e6400/e6320/e6420

They should all hit at least 3ghz

citizen__erased · 21 Apr 2007 at 22:12

I'd like to go for the E6600 at least, so if i can't get much of an overclock i still have a fast chip. I've not had that much luck overclocking in the past. I got an extra 200mhz out of my A64 3000, but that's about it. My current 3700 clawhammer won't budge from it's stock 2.4Ghz.

gurusan · 21 Apr 2007 at 22:21

citizen__erased said:
I'd like to go for the E6600 at least, so if i can't get much of an overclock i still have a fast chip. I've not had that much luck overclocking in the past. I got an extra 200mhz out of my A64 3000, but that's about it. My current 3700 clawhammer won't budge from it's stock 2.4Ghz.

the thing is...for C2D chips a "bad" overclock is about 2.9-3ghz.

citizen__erased · 22 Apr 2007 at 09:29

So you reckon even a novice overclocker could get a 6600 up to the 3Ghz mark?