The e7300 Thread

[roadie]

Right, these CPUs now seem to be available for roughly £90 and seem to be built for overclocking with the 10x multiplier. Here are the full specs:

Speed: 2.66Ghz
FSB: 1066Mhz
Multiplier: 10
L2 Cache: 3Mb
Manufacturing Technology: 45nm
Stepping: M0

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAPB

Anyone willing to take the plunge? I am seriously considering one to see if I can get some 10x400 action for 24/7 running on air.

 

[roadie]

Here's an Engineering Sample OC:

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[pastymuncher]

Too much money. You can get a E8400 for just over £100 now and have double the cache. Most of them will do 8x400 as well. New E0 stepping on the way so they will only get better. Intel are shooting themselves in the foot now. They have far too many cpu's on offer.

 

[mame]

I agree. With the e8500 3.0ghz 6mb cache costing £112 now, the e7300 wouldn't be worth more than about £75-£80 meaning the e7200 would have to drop quite a bit

 

[p4radox]

Hmm, roll on the E5200 tbh.

And they'd better start at around £50-60 or else I'll just get an E2160 or blow the doh on a Q6600. The in-between chips still seem largely pointless to me.

 

[Superjeep4x4]

The E5200 should be the same price as the E2200. Im gonna replace my E2180 with it for the lower power and higher clock then sell my E2180 for a few bucks. I debated a E7200 but really I just dont think its worth it as the E5200 only have 1 less meg of cache(but double my E2180).

I just hate to spend to much on a dual core when these cheap clockers do so well. Ill probably stick with them until I need to go quad.

 

[Shaolin Chicken]

Apparently no sse 4.1 for the e5200 though .

 

[Superjeep4x4]

I really do not know what that is or what its used for. I just mostly game/web browse and stuff. Is that a needed feature? Sorry for being ignorant on the matter.

 

[Shaolin Chicken]

I really do not know what that is or what its used for. I just mostly game/web browse and stuff. Is that a needed feature? Sorry for being ignorant on the matter.

Not needed for the things you do on your comp.
It was just one of the added features to the 45nm (e8400,q9450 etc.)
range of cpu's, which the e5200 is part of.

Sse 4.1 can greatly help encoding as far as i'm aware. Not sure of other benefits.

 

[Superjeep4x4]

Ahh ok gotcha. Tnx for the info