intel 6400 vs 6600

[Bubble]

Just about to buy conroe rig and wondering if I should go for a 6400 and overclock it the hilt or get a 6600 and do the same! Theres a £70 difference between the 2, would it be worth it for me to save 70 squids and put it towards watercooling??

Pretty sure the 6400 can overclock just as well as the 6600, but the 4mb cache sounds nice...would I see any real world performance gain having the 4mb over the 2mb on the 6400?

Will be buying 2gb GSkill 6400HZ, Asus P5B Deluxe and using a lovely sounding Ati X1900XT if it makes any differeence

G

 

[mortals]

The extra 2mb cache doesn't seem to make that much difference. There was a review somewhere that compares both(2mb+4mb) on two core2duo's running at the same speed.
The overall results showed an average of 5% difference.

Not sure how high fsb wise the e6600 can go, but the allendale's seem to go over 500 on the P5B.

But then you could get a e6600 and if it tops out too low, you could change the multi down. I had to make the same decision a few weeks ago, altho I went for a i975x mobo so can't get fsb to 500 altho 3.2Ghz seems fast enough to me

or even save a bit more and get a e6300. Depends on what speed you're aiming for and also what fsb you would be happy to run at.

With watercooling tho I'd guess the e6600 would be very good lol

 

[dark4orz]

The 6600 will clock higher then the allendale cpu's ie. 6300,6400 especially with watercooling, don't worry I haven't even heard of a crap stepping as yet. The the 4mb cache is more apparent when using encoding tools.

 

[Bubble]

Yeah I should have said I really want to push the chips with video encoding using CCE and also mess around with quite a bit of photo manipulation!

Think i'll stump up for the 6600 today then

cheers guys

G

 

[paddy]

http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html

That is quite a usfull page to compare CPUs in different areas.

6600 seems to be about 10% faster than the 6400.

 

[Bubble]

man, excellent link right there

very useful comparing all those chips and a specific process you need timed to compare...

the video encoding stuff looks minted, a bog standard 6600 is like 5 ecs slower than an FX62, scary biscuits

Gonna order my rig tonight, finally! The gfx card arrived today from a member on here, mighty impressive looking bit of kit I must say

cheers guys

G

 

[Kmodo]

I have the e6600 and could not be happier, the 9x multipler makes things easy too I never even had to oc my ram!!!