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Why not e6400?

MoRT489

MoRT489

MoRT489

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Hi Guys

Been reading the posts on these new duos and have decided to build myself a rig around one :D . Speeds on OCing the 6300 and 6600 very impressive but why does no1 talk about the 6400? :confused: I ask cos this is bang on my budget price for CPU and the extra speed over the 6300 must mean something right?

Also DS4 or P5W to go with the 6400?

Cheers in advance guys
 
DS4 seems to be majority vote on the lower end Allendales. Nothing wrong with the 6400 as far as i see, higher multi can help things a lot and dosen't cost that much more :)
 
6400 is a sound clocker ,seems they all are. I went for the 6400 based on the muliplier of 8 compared to 7 of the 6300. I think 3.6 from a 2.1 chip is fantastic..long live the duo 2... well till the next best chip anyway ;)
 
I think the reason that most people around here have E6300's is because they were in stock first and satisfied the "I want one now" group (me included). :D
The same applies for the Gigabyte mobo's. IIRC they were the first in stock at OcUK that were Conroe ready out of the box. I personally went for the DS4 because of the extra heatpipe cooling of the chipsets, looks cool and works quite well.

Also if your intention is to overclock, with the DS3 and DS4 able to hit 500+ on the fsb (in some cases not all) and both processors maxing out at about the same speed, then the E6300 will be a slightly faster system overall because of the faster bus speeds.

my 2p

Regards
Steevo
 
I'm loving my e6400. I haven't really had the chance to push it yet (got it on friday and had to work all w-end), but it's sitting stable at 3.3Ghz already.
 
Steevo38 said:
Also if your intention is to overclock, with the DS3 and DS4 able to hit 500+ on the fsb (in some cases not all) and both processors maxing out at about the same speed, then the E6300 will be a slightly faster system overall because of the faster bus speeds.
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So Steevo are u saying the 6300 will be faster than 6400 :confused:
 
He is saying that a 6300 based PC will be slightly faster than a 6400 PC if clocked to the same CPU speed as the FSB will be higher on the 6300.

On the other hand if you put them both to the same FSB speed then the 6400 would be faster due to the multiplier, just depends how far you can clock your own particular system as usual :)
 
Teal said:
He is saying that a 6300 based PC will be slightly faster than a 6400 PC if clocked to the same CPU speed as the FSB will be higher on the 6300.

On the other hand if you put them both to the same FSB speed then the 6400 would be faster due to the multiplier, just depends how far you can clock your own particular system as usual :)
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But the 6400 should clock further right?
 
There is no 'should' in this game really.

You may get a 6400 that only just made it through the quality checks (gross simliification I know) that hardly clocks at all and you may get a 6300 that was only speed binned because they needed to ship 6300's but was in all other respects a top end 6400.

It does seem like a lot of people are getting some great clocking CPU's right now but there is no certaintly that you'll be able to run with the higher multiplier at the same FSB as the lower multiplier on the 6300.

A gamble as always :)
 
any1 got any clock speeds for their 6400. The 6300 seems to max at about 3.3 for air cooling solutions so was hoping to find the 6400 a bit quicker?
 
ive just got the 6400 on friday stable at over 3.55 ,still testing but been into windows around 3.8 ghz so got to be good -on water cooling -the multi of 6-8 is most welcome .
 
wellibob said:
My 6400 will go to 3.6 on air, and it seems without too much trouble. There is no guarentee another will do the same however
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that on air?
everyone I spoke to reccomended at 6600 for my quote, whats the advantage of a 6600 over the 6300/6400? (I would be overclocking)
 
4 meg cache on the 6600 for starters. Pick a budget and try to stick to it, else it`ll spiral out of control. Ive have been most fortunate with my DS3/6400 Duo 2 and Corsair 6400 c4 ram. Easyrider gave me a few pointers, and off i went. What i own isnt the best rig in the world, but it certainly whips any AMD system ive seen, and then some.
 
i think i will go for the 6600 simply because it works better with the 975x chipset which are the only ones that support x-fire, tho it looks like way more fun OCing the 6300/6400 :(
 
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