E6600 or E6400?

[MeatLoaf]

Will be getting my conroe bits tomorrow, is the E6600 worth the extra cash over the E6400? Im sure i can clock the E6400 past 6600 speeds but will the 4Mb cache make much difference?

 

[Jabbs]

From what i recall its not a huge boost in gaming but it is in encoding etc.

 

[harris1986]

not a great deal of performance tbh, i would save the money and get some better ram for the 6400, mine is at clock in sig on stock volts but my ram's limiting it atm!

 

[MeatLoaf]

not a great deal of performance tbh, i would save the money and get some better ram for the 6400, mine is at clock in sig on stock volts but my ram's limiting it atm!

3.2Ghz is still pretty good

Thats the same RAM i have.

 

[harris1986]

yeah i know it's awesome and it means that my ram is running at pc6400 speeds on my p5b deluxe! i know this chip can go much further this is what's annoying me lol, i need some better ram then carry on clocking her!

 

[MoRT489]

Will the 4MB cache make a difference to 2MB if i want to run game and TV at the same time or is this gfx card dependent?

 

[Participant]

You can clock the E6600 further than the E6300 though and it'll last you well into the future.

 

[Hamoodii]

E6600

 

[GAMEfreak]

whats the differance is there between the clocl multis of the 6300, 6400 and 6600? i'l also be buying soon and i wanna make sure what would clock best on a DS3 for the lowest amount of kash. i'm expecting the 6400 is the one to get.

 

[Jabbs]

The 6300 has a x7 multi, 6400 has x8 and 6600 has x9, my 6300 atm is 420x7 which gives me 2.94, so obviously the 6400 will give at same clock420x8=3.3 ish. etc. This also depends how good clocker the chip you get is.

 

[BigglesPiP]

You can clock the E6600 further than the E6300 though and it'll last you well into the future.

Actually the Allendales have been regularly outclocking the conroes.


But the 6600 is the sweet spot on price/performance.