Quick question, which S775 dual core CPU has the highest multi and also supports virtualisation (VT

[MikeHunt79]

As title really, I'm running an E5300 right now, but this doesn't support VT-x, but the Intel site is confusing me as there also seems to be another versions of the E5300 which does support VT-x?

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35300#ordering

It seems that the E5800 supports VT-x and has a 16x multi, while the E6800 has a 12.5x multi, so would the E5800 be the one to get?

Thanks.

 

["andy"]

id say so , infact i run a e5700 for the high multi reason

 

[MikeHunt79]

id say so , infact i run a e5700 for the high multi reason

Thanks, after reading around the E6800 isn't really much different, in fact it has the same amount of cache so I think I'll go with once of the E5X00 range then.

It's a shame my current E5300 doesn't support VT-x but I guess I was just unlucky with the Spec code.

The 5700 sounds good, even at 15 x multi, you only need 267MHz FSB to hit 4GHz.

 

[steve258]

Yes the E5800 has the highest multi but E6800 would have a higher stock speed and a higher FSB at stock. But if you're going to overclock anyway on presumably fsb limited mobo then it makes sense to go with high multi. Afterall you can always lower multi but you can't increase it.

It's worth noting though that E5700 has smartcache, whatever it is, but oddly E5800 doesn't.