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Is the 6700 worth it over 6600?

AnastieByte

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Dont plan to overclock. Used for games mainly. Looking at upgrade but not sure of the real world difference and rather not waste to much cash! I have looked at the toms hardware comparison but read that some don't rate how they compare.
So as the title says?
Thanks
 
I would say no as well.

If you aren't going to be overclocking then steer clear of the e6300...the e6600 is 540mhz faster and has twice the cache.

A stock e6300 isn't very impressive at all; the main reason gamers buy these is because they are excellent ocing processors and very reasonably priced :)
 
the E6600 has a 9x multiplier, the E6700 has a 10x multiplyer, all other things being equal, you get ~11% performance increase on CPU-intensive tasks. Less so in the real world because you start to see memory bottlenecks the faster you go, but lets say 11% for convenience.

Now, whats the price difference?

352.49 inc VAT for the E6700 vs 215.04 inc VAT for the E6600
An increase of 63% in price.

So you get 11% higher performance, max, for 63% higher cost.

Considering that a E6600 can easily overclock to a E6700's speed, I'd say no, the cost premium isn't worth it. Even if you're not overclocking, its better to spend the money somewhere else, like on a lovely 8800GTX :) In my opinion, of course.
 
Agree with all the above, really is not worth the extra £££ buying anything more than the lowest 2mb or 4mb cache cpu they all seem to oc to about the same level anyway.
 
I don't see the reason for not overclocking the 6300 or 6600 if you have a decent mobo that can. You're getting free performance and the cpus can easily take it.
 
gurusan said:
I would say no as well.

If you aren't going to be overclocking then steer clear of the e6300...the e6600 is 540mhz faster and has twice the cache.

A stock e6300 isn't very impressive at all; the main reason gamers buy these is because they are excellent ocing processors and very reasonably priced :)
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Stock E6300s are very nice chips actually, so I don't really know what you're on about.
 
if you look on tomshardware the e6400 is comparable to a x2 4800 in most of the gaming tests.

This means that a e6300 should be comparable to a x2 4400.

I never said they were bad chips...just that for a gaming CPU it's not the best choice.
 
Big.Wayne said:
I don't think so myself, but then I don't believe the e6600 is worth the extra over an e6300 ;)
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i've not seen many 6300's prime stable at 3.6ghz+ with low volts

some ppl need more than 3.2ghz
 
marscay said:
i've not seen many 6300's prime stable at 3.6ghz+ with low volts

some ppl need more than 3.2ghz
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And still not worth the extra £100 for that bit more performance you'll get....used both and very glad i got rid of my E6600 and got an E6300 instead....sitting nicely @ 3.4ghz prime :p
 
ppl with 8800 SLI rigs need every last mhz to push the cards, or those on phase even.

everything is relative, there's no right or wrong.
 
Big.Wayne said:
I don't think so myself, but then I don't believe the e6600 is worth the extra over an e6300 ;)
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marscay said:
i've not seen many 6300's prime stable at 3.6ghz+ with low volts

some ppl need more than 3.2ghz

everything is relative, there's no right or wrong
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Thats right, so we just state our opinions and move onto the next thread, you don't need to justify to me or anyone why you wanna pay out extra £££ on an e6600/e6700 and I don't have to justify why I feel the e6300 is a great chip and saves me a few £££ ;)
 
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