E6600 Upgrade ?

[Sipha]

I currently have an E6600 sitting @ 3.6 Ghz.

What would be a worthy upgrade from the new 45nm range ? Bearing price in mind, would say the E8400 be big enough step up or should I be looking higher.

 

[helmutcheese]

If it was an E0 IMO it would be worth it but shop around and try get a WEEK 22 E8600 (all E8600's are EO).

Your basically for a fact going to get 4GHZ on stock or lower voltage (1.2v) and hit 4.5GHZ on mid range voltage.

 

[R.Muller]

e8400 is plenty to be honest, i would have thought your e6600 was still up to the job though!

 

[smids]

No point. The E6600 @ 3.6ghz is more than enough for now. I personally wouldn't bother...

 

[IceWind]

e6600 are good chips, first c2d i had, got it to 3.8 under water on a p35

 

[Rroff]

Yeah really not much point unless you wanna benchmark - if its stable at 3.6 - is still fast enough to push pretty much anything and you wouldn't actually feel the performance difference between it an a 4gig E8x00 in every day useage.

 

[VeNT]

hehe these C2D arn't ageing much really, I've got my 6300 at 3.2 stable since they came out and thats sweet as a nut so I don't really think it's worth upgrading for a little while yet!

 

[esK`]

Any Core2duo above 3 gig will not limit a pc in any way.

 

[magicoi]

Would that still be the case for say an e4500 at 2.93GHz? Its not got a big cache at all and is a more basic chip. Would an upgrade be noticable outside of benchies?