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E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" or E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz

Marky67

Marky67

Marky67

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Hi, looking for some help on the last few stages of building a new system, just got the CPU to finalize these are the 2 I have shortlisted: Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £215.01 inc VAT
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £111.61 inc VAT.

The thing that is swaying me with the retail "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz is it comes with a 3 year warranty, will there be much in performance diffrence to warrant nearly double the price difference with the Allandale!!
 
Thanks for the help. overclocking is a route I would like to go down, from what I have read so far on this forum most people say that E6300 is the best bang for the buck, as it has great overclocking capabilities, from what I can gather from the advise above is that if I do not want to go down the overclocking route the go for the E6600, I will be using a Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard, with GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit. Decisions :confused:
 
Cheers eayrider, do you think the DS3 would be the a good board at the £100 price point to go with E6300 or will an extra £20-£30 give me a better overclocking performance board? trying not to stray of topic just looking for the best combo!!
 
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