Why not e6400?

[MoRT489]

Hi Guys

Been reading the posts on these new duos and have decided to build myself a rig around one . Speeds on OCing the 6300 and 6600 very impressive but why does no1 talk about the 6400? 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

 

[MoRT489]

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.

So Steevo are u saying the 6300 will be faster than 6400

 

[MoRT489]

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

But the 6400 should clock further right?

 

[MoRT489]

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?

 

[MoRT489]

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