E6300 or E6400

Sipha

Sipha

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Hi all,

Just a bit of advice, which would be better for a little budget overclocking, the 6300 or the 6400 ?

I would like to see over 3ghz if possible and for it to be nice and stable at that.

I'm probably gonna be running a DS3 and some cheapish PC6400 memory, and a Tuniq.

Thanks
Si :)
 
But then if your buying a board worth its salt you'll be able to lock your ram at 800mhz and clock away...

After buying the 6400 thinking it would be better...not much point, either get a E6300 or a E6600 if you want 4mb cache.
 
it also depends upon how high you cang et your board FSB. 450 FSB is 3.6Ghz for the E6400, but only 3.125GHz for the E6300, so you need to be able to get much higher to get good clocks.
 
simonnance said:
it also depends upon how high you cang et your board FSB. 450 FSB is 3.6Ghz for the E6400, but only 3.125GHz for the E6300, so you need to be able to get much higher to get good clocks.
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Chris Beard said:
6400 hits strap sweet spot on boards like ds3 and will outperform a 6300 past 2.8Ghz.
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I hear the DS3 is good at handling high FSB's, so maybe the 6400 is the way to go ?

Also what RAM would you recommend for this job ? I'm sure PC6400 but which make would be best suited and cheap !

Thanks guys

Si :)
 
How about buy 1 gig stick of crucial ballistix pc5300 ram then get another
1 gig when you can afford it.
It out performs most 6400 ram and is £60 or there abouts.
 
Good Idea, I dunno whether I could cope with 1Gb for very long tho :p

Is the 5300 gonna be ok with the big hike in FSB tho ? I assumed having 800mhz rated ram would have been a safer bet for getting a nice Overclock ?

Or is it fine to have 5300 for what I want ?

Thanks for the advice :)
 
I have the crucial 10th anniversary ram, almost identical to the 5300 balistics. Will hit 400mhz 3-3-3 and 500mhz 4-4-4 see balistics thread here
Also go for the E6400, has better chance of reaching higher overclocks than the e6300 due to its multi :)
 
As I understand it:

The northbridge/Memory Controler Hub(MCH) has a set of straps it runs at. The lower the strap the better the performance. These straps are set up for verious FSB ranges but are not neccesarily used for the range they're designed for.

The Northbridge has it's own clock so it can run on a devider from the FSB, I'm not sure how much of a performance impact this has. I also believe running the Northbridge at higher clocks improves system performance much like running RAM at higher clocks.

The strap is a set of timings, sort of like memory timings, but has a lot more impact on system performance than memory timings.

There isn't a lot of control for overclockers with regards to the strap settings or northbridge clock but I think the 975X chipsets give you a little more control than the 965P.

This artical looks quite good:
www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=30

The impact:

When you go past 400Mhz FSB on a 965 chipset you hit the 1333 strap which slows the system down. There was a thread on here to do with decreased performance between 2.8Ghz and 3.6Ghz or something with the E6300 - I'll look it up and add link on edit. Conversely below 267fsb I think the P965 runs on a devider - so the northbridge runs faster than the FSB, which means at stock the E4300 has a devider which you only lose after overclocking past 2.4Ghz(ish).

Having said all this I believe the E6400 will hit the strap change at 3.2Ghz.

Edit: forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17675889&highlight=2.8Ghz+strap (link to performance dip thread)

Can anyone confirm all this?
 
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e6300 and the pc5300 Crucial Ballistix.

Cheaper than an e6400 and Geil and will probably get you the same results.
 
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