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upgrade from a E6300

KaBar

KaBar

KaBar

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Currently have a E6300 running at stock speed with Gigabyte DS4 (rev 1.0), 2GB of PC2-6400 memory, HD4670 512Mb, 580W PSU. Running Vista 64.

Looking at the Motherboard website and CPU compatability chart it seems the board will only support CPUs with max 1066FSB (Excluding the Wolfdale chips for some reason), so basically only Intel Chips with 6 as their first number.

Most of the older Dual-Core chips seem to be hard to get hold of, was thinking of getting an E6700 as this is the fastest dual-core supported but unsure if that is much of an upgrade.

However it looks as if the Quad-Core Q6600 is supported, will this be a significant upgrade? is it worth the cash? or should I just grab a cheaper dual-core from somewhere like the E6700?
 
Hi mate,

In the same boat as you, however I currently have a 6300 running @ 3ghz. Have you tried to overclock (very easy)? This makes a huge difference in performance.
 
I bought the chip at the time because it was supposed to be easy to overclock, along with the recommended mobo and memory at the time. However had absolutely no success as even the most minor adjustment seemed to cause memory errors. So gave up in the end. Have a day off next week and might try again but might just give in an buy a faster CPU before then. If I don't kick it too hard because of all the BSOD since installing Vista.
 
Could be your memory that is knackered? Did you change any volts in the bios? Is your ram running the reccomended volts?

Mine is rock solid at 3.0ghz on almost stock volts I think, and the ram running at reccomended ratings.
 
first set of RAM was knackered and i swapped it, the second set runs fine at the BIOS defaults. CPU-Z says its running at 1.8V, I'm sure the recommended is 1.9-2.0v but if I remember right upping the voltage caused memory errors. Dunno if I can be bothered to try and overclock again when £150 will buy me a new processor that should p@#s on this one.
 
KaBar said:
first set of RAM was knackered and i swapped it, the second set runs fine at the BIOS defaults. CPU-Z says its running at 1.8V, I'm sure the recommended is 1.9-2.0v but if I remember right upping the voltage caused memory errors. Dunno if I can be bothered to try and overclock again when £150 will buy me a new processor that should p@#s on this one.
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the 1.8v you are seeing will be in the SPD table which is nothing more than just text. Pretty sure it would be easy to overclock that CPU to around 3GHz in no time
 
As you increase the fsb you also increase the ram speed. You need to adjust the ram speed to stay as close as possible to it's stock speed.
 
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