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E4300/E6300 vs E6600?

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I'm looking to probably get an E4300 (or possibly E6300). But I'm also tempted by the E6600. I will certainly be overclocking and probably watercooled. Is the E6600 worth the extra? Is it likely to clock much further than the E4300 and E6300?
 
I doubt the E6600 will clock any better than the E4300 but it does have more cache, so if you do a lot of encoding, photoshop and stuff like that It may be worth getting, but I doubt you'll see much difference in gaming.

If you have the money for an E6600 though, why not.
 
You will most likely gain a higher overclock propertional to stock speed with the 6300. 6600s tend to average out around 3.6 and the 6300 3.2 but then you look at the stock speeds you are in effect getting a higher overclock with the 6300 than the 6600. If you do a lot of video editing/encoding then the extra cache of the 6600 will come in handy as will the higher multi when you overclock but if you use ** PC mainly for everyday tasks(surfing/gaming etc) then you would be hard pushed to see THAT much of a difference between the 6300 and a 6600 tbh, certainly not worth the extra £100 or so imo from the systems I have built.
 
there's no question that more 6600's will reach 3.6+ comfortably versus a 4300/6300.

usually with less volts too.

with water it's a fair assumption that you might be able to push another few hundred mhz with a 6600.... all things being equal.
 
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