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E2160 or E6550

Wiggins

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I am torn between these two babies for gaming purposes.

I have read that the more L2 Cache there is, the better it is for gaming. Is this true?

I know that the E2160 can have the bejeesus clocked out of it so would I get similar performance to the E6550 if its clocked to around 2.8Ghz - 3Ghz?

If I get the E2160, I am going to have to get a better PSU with the extra cash but if I get the E6550 I will have to make do with my £25 550W PSU and suppose leave the E6550 at stock until I can get the cash to get a better PSU.

Along with this I will have 2 of the GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency and a P5N-E SLI with an Akasa 961 Cooler sat on the CPU.
 
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you dont mention the board you have? If your board cant do 1333FSB then the answer is e2160 for sure. If your board can do 1333, skip the e6550 and get the e6750 for less than 10 quid more.

Edit - 15 quid difference actually.

Whats your total budget?
 
ih8modem said:
you dont mention the board you have? If your board cant do 1333FSB then the answer is e2160 for sure. If your board can do 1333, skip the e6550 and get the e6750 for less than 10 quid more.

Edit - 15 quid difference actually.

Whats your total budget?
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I have the P5N-E SLI and with the new Bios it does now support up to 1333 and will easily overclock to 1700 without a sniff giving me roughly a 3Ghz E6550.

Total budget is £200 with £20 either side. I suppose if I get the E2160 then some decent 667Mhz memory would be better especially if the FSB - Memory is linked.

I need to get another 250GB HDD as I want to put vista on it.
 
melbourne720 said:
I'd measure the voltages in the BIOS, and the temps from coretemp/Intel TAT.
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TAT doesnt support the Dual Cores unfortunately :(

Heres what i got in the Bios

Vcore 1.24
3.3v 3.21
5v 4.94
12v 11.96

Heres the spec of the PSU:

3.3v DC = 32A
5 DC = 40A
-5v = 0.5A
12v DC = 24A
-12v DC = 1A
5vsb = 2A

I was thinking along the lines of unlinking the FSB - Memory which got me thinking about the Geil 800Mhz.

If the PSU can carry the E6550 I will get the chip. But after reading your thrad on the 2 chips Melbourne, its thrown me completely off track now :D
 
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Wiggins said:
TAT doesnt support the Dual Cores unfortunately :(
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??? Yes it does!

Wiggins said:
I was thinking along the lines of unlinking the FSB - Memory which got me thinking about the Geil 800Mhz. If I keep the memory as it is and ram the FSB up on either chips, will this lower the weight that the PSU has to carry?
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I'd just get a decent PSU.

Wiggins said:
If the PSU can carry the E6550 I will get the chip. But after reading your thrad on the 2 chips Melbourne, its thrown me completely off track now :D
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Good stuff :D

edit: try this:-

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
(£64.61)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
(£82.24)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£58.74)

Total : £215.28
 
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Wiggins said:
TAT doesnt support the Dual Cores unfortunately :(
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Supports my e2140 and all C2D's I think, apart from the 1333fsb chips for now.

I'd advise getting an e21*0 on a budget, very clockable and allows you to get a better psu. Also as Melbourne's review has shown, the cache size seems to make negligible difference in gaming.

EDIT: Damn Melbourne is too fast :(
 
melbourne720 said:
It doesn't work with VISTA I believe :p I'd use coretemp for your temps.

edit:didn't consider pentium Ds... :o
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I'm still on XP and got this for coretemp



lmao

How does this look?

Dropped the price of the 2 1GB sticks of geil and went for the 4x512mb sticks instead. That way I get the HDD too.

 
Shimmy said:
I'd advise getting an e21*0 on a budget, very clockable and allows you to get a better psu. Also as Melbourne's review has shown, the cache size seems to make negligible difference in gaming.
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You got 3.0Ghz on the Stock HSF???????????????

OMG :eek:
 
Wiggins said:
I'm still on XP and got this for coretemp



lmao

How does this look?

Dropped the price of the 2 1GB sticks of geil and went for the 4x512mb sticks instead. That way I get the HDD too.

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I would not get 4x 512MB ram period.
 
Wiggins said:
You got 3.0Ghz on the Stock HSF???????????????

OMG :eek:
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Yup ;)

Someone here has 3.2Ghz on stock cooling too, and with low temps.

Think it's RobbieG, has like 55 degrees load temps which is pretty ridiculous tbh lol.
 
Shimmy said:
Yup ;)

Someone here has 3.2Ghz on stock cooling too, and with low temps.

Think it's RobbieG, has like 55 degrees load temps which is pretty ridiculous tbh lol.
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It all depends on ambient temps..
 
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