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Hi,
it's been a while since i have ventured into building a fast PC and generally keeping up to date with things PC related. I still remember going to OCUK and buying my old computer which consisted of an athlon 2100XP and geforceti4200. (Now i've got a Barton xp2500.)
I have been looking at Core 2 Duo setups recently and was wondering what were the advantages of buying the new 1333fsb processors over the older 1066fsb ones, if say i only plan to overclock the CPU to about 3ghz?
More specifically i'm wondering whether to buy the E6550 or the E6600? Or even getting a E6420
I will be using a P35 motherboard either way.
If say i overclock the e6600 to 3ghz, i work out that the ram will run at 333mhz, giving a FSB of 1333. And if i overclock the E6550 to 3ghz the ram will run at 429mhz giving a FSB of 1716.
So both systems running at 3ghz the one with the higher FSB should be slightly faster right? which scenario would be better for me, considering costs too. thanks.
it's been a while since i have ventured into building a fast PC and generally keeping up to date with things PC related. I still remember going to OCUK and buying my old computer which consisted of an athlon 2100XP and geforceti4200. (Now i've got a Barton xp2500.)
I have been looking at Core 2 Duo setups recently and was wondering what were the advantages of buying the new 1333fsb processors over the older 1066fsb ones, if say i only plan to overclock the CPU to about 3ghz?
More specifically i'm wondering whether to buy the E6550 or the E6600? Or even getting a E6420
I will be using a P35 motherboard either way.
If say i overclock the e6600 to 3ghz, i work out that the ram will run at 333mhz, giving a FSB of 1333. And if i overclock the E6550 to 3ghz the ram will run at 429mhz giving a FSB of 1716.
So both systems running at 3ghz the one with the higher FSB should be slightly faster right? which scenario would be better for me, considering costs too. thanks.