E6600 worth the extra against a E6300?

[serenity888]

I’m looking to get either the E6300 or E6600 cpu but can’t decide which one. Please help! I see the E6300 is a great overclocker and can easily keep up even with overclocked E6600 clock speeds. But I’m wondering the extra 2mb cache will be beneficial to me. The pc will be used for gaming as well as video encoding and editing raw photo images in adobe premier and photoshop. I’m also going to the far east at the end of the month so can pick up the e6300 for £90 and e6600 for £160. So is the extra 2mb cache gonna make that much difference and worth shelling out the extra money? The motherboard I’m teaming it up with is the Gigabyte DS3.

any advice or speed comparisons is helpful!

 

[serenity888]

i'm even more confused now!



I've also noticed that most o/c settings that people post here seem to have the e6600 at very high voltages (>1.5V) whereas the e6300 overclocks well at stock volts or close to stock volts. would high voltages have an long term reliability impact?