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P4 950 vs E6300
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Is he overclocking? What's he use the machine for? What's his motherboard and RAM setup?
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I'd go for the E6300. It'll trounce the competition on even a mild overclock.
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Indeed. They clock up to 2.4-2.7 GHz without batting an eye.Mattus said:
Man if I don't get 2.8GHz rock solid I'm gonna FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!BillytheImpaler said:
3.5GHz and the bubbly is coming out!
(That means 500MHz-external clock on the ASUS P5B-Deluxe and DDR1000 speeds from the Crucial 10th Anniversary DDR667 as well!)What I mean is that future motherboards will probably be more likely to support the e6300 & often they are the only ones to support new standards. Like people on the old pentium sockets can't really get pci-e which (almost) locks them out of new graphics cards (at reasonable prices) but they may have 2.8/3ghz pentiums.
I was being a bit tongue in cheek about forced upgrades but it's nice when a standard hangs around for a bit so you can upgrade incrementaly.
I was being a bit tongue in cheek about forced upgrades but it's nice when a standard hangs around for a bit so you can upgrade incrementaly.
I bought the E6300 because i thought it OC good but i have had problems (still am) I Cannot over clock it AT ALL with out any programes randomly not responding, i bought a new psu etc but i think i may need new cooling even tho i have seen some people hit 3ghz on stock cooling 
Do i have a bad chiP?
Do i have a bad chiP?jongeeone said:I bought the E6300 because i thought it OC good but i have had problems (still am) I Cannot over clock it AT ALL with out any programes randomly not responding, i bought a new psu etc but i think i may need new cooling even tho i have seen some people hit 3ghz on stock cooling
Did you never get any further with your other thread?
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Got a Pentium D 830 "3GHZ", overclocked to "3.45GHZ" and all stable, can overclock more but it pulls way to much power and puts a lot of strain on the PSU, this is where a core2duo would come in use, apparently easy to overclock and uses half the power of my curent CPU, currently pulling 150W!!!!, but if I get one would be at least an E6600 as it has twice as much cache, E6600 traples over the Pentium D 950 easily on all tests, but it would go head to head with the Pentium D 965 on some tests but once overclocked would beat it...
SO core2duo would be faster, uses less power, so less heat and quiter running systme, but weahter you want to spend £230 on one is your choice... It will certainly give you more frames per second if your gaming at high resoluitons
SO core2duo would be faster, uses less power, so less heat and quiter running systme, but weahter you want to spend £230 on one is your choice... It will certainly give you more frames per second if your gaming at high resoluitons
I'm sorry - but having thought this through I reckon this thread is a bit pointless. Unless you are somehow locked into a non Core2Duo motherboard then the Core2Duo is clearly the better choice. Either at stock (small difference in the real world, big difference in benchmarks) or overclocked (huge difference generally).