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Street

Street

Street

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I currently have an e6400 that I run at 3.4GHz day to day.. I now have the chance to get my hands on an e6550. The cost to change over will be about a tenner.. Just wondering if its worth the change?

How well do these things clock? I see they have more cache, will this make much difference to speed and clockability?
 
£10 for an extra 2mb of cache? I'd probably do it, but 3.4 is not to be laughed at.
Tough choice to be honest.
 
This one goes further.. I just run it at 3.4 day to day as its a good balance between speed and volts! Might just get it and then see how well it does, if its not as good, just return it or sell it on the bay.
 
That's fair enough, worst case you'll certainly recover your tenner.
Run some extensive benchies on both, and ideally time some real-world apps to see if there's a real measurable difference.
If its not a hassle, post up your results, be interesting to see how they compare at 3.4.
 
Yeh, sod it.. I'll go for it! Am bored anyway so need something to play with. Hopefully should be able to get it by Friday.. Then I can test it over the weekend! :)
 
Hmm.. Was a n00b and didn't occur to me that its got a 7x multi! Means to be able to get the same sort of overclocks, I have to push the FSB up to 500 which makes my board cry. :(

Oh well.. Straight on the bay it goes! :)
 
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