E6600 / E6850 the same?

[Typhoon]

As both the E6600 and the E6850 both have a 9x multi are they basically same thing, other than the E6850 designed to be autodetected as 333Mhz FSB and having to manually set for the E6600 to FSB 333 from 266? Or is the new 1333 chip intrinsically better and will oc more?
Cheers

 

[*Chris]

reading through some posts it looks like a lot of the e6850 chips are brilliant clockers.

 

[Shimmy]

The E6850 has been proven to clock further, up to 4.5Ghz afaik.

Whereas the e6600 4/4.1Ghz. Both of which using water cooling.

 

[Jokester]

Stable clock wise the E6850 will typically get about 400MHz more than the E6600.

Jokester

 

[El Jimben]

As both the E6600 and the E6850 both have a 9x multi are they basically same thing, other than the E6850 designed to be autodetected as 333Mhz FSB and having to manually set for the E6600 to FSB 333 from 266? Or is the new 1333 chip intrinsically better and will oc more?
Cheers

And don't forget that the 6850 is 3GHz at stock whereas the 6600 is 2.4GHz

 

[helmutcheese]

I understand his question, lots of CPU's and GPU's are the same with bridges cut etc, to make diff models, obv this is not the case here, the E6600 obv clocks a higher % from stock and can hit the 1333mhz FSB but the E6850 is far higher final clocks, today for me it would be a toss of a coin between the E6850 and the Q6600.

 

[Typhoon]

Ok I understand, They are basically the same chip architecturally with the same Multi, same cache etc, but the dies chosen for the E6850 seem to have more overclocking headroom than the ones chosen to become E6600's. The E6850 are garanteed to run at 1333FSB (333x4) and the E6600 only garanteed to run 1066FSB (though mine runs fine at 1600FSB).