Any reason to NOT get E6600 besides price?

[spiderhole]

I'm getting ready to build a c2d machine in a week or two, and planning to use either the Asus P5B dlx or -E. Since everyone seems to be having great luch overclocking these procs I guess I pretty much have to try it myself, but I'm leaning towards getting the E6600 if I decide to run at stock speed for some reason. Is there any reason the 6400 would be considered "better" for overclocking other than the fact it costs less than the 6600?

Thanks,
M

 

[Nightmare225]

No.

 

[Pabster]

No. E6600 > E6400. The only reason to choose the latter is price.

 

[n7]

I always use the CPU + GPU scale.

If getting a better CPU is going to force you buy a less than superb GPU, you need to drop lower in your choice of CPU (unless you don't game).

Esepcially since pretty much all C2Ds will hit 3+ GHz

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: n7
I always use the CPU + GPU scale.

If getting a better CPU is going to force you buy a less than superb GPU, you need to drop lower in your choice of CPU (unless you don't game).

Esepcially since pretty much all C2Ds will hit 3+ GHz

True, once you start going past 3Ghz there's pretty much nothing to benefit from with a C2D. You're not going to probably ever max out that performance. Every little bit is just a few FPS or points in a benchmark. Generally speaking.

 

[lopri]

E6600 price is much more reasonable now. ($330~$340) How much is an E6400 these days?

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: lopri
E6600 price is much more reasonable now. ($330~$340) How much is an E6400 these days?

~$100 less, methinks.

 

[m21s]

Originally posted by: Kromis

Originally posted by: lopri
E6600 price is much more reasonable now. ($330~$340) How much is an E6400 these days?

~$100 less, methinks.

E6400 is $226/$227 at both newegg and zipzoomfly. (retail)
E6600 is #332/$329 at both newegg and zipzoomfly. (retail)

 

[Baked]

E6600 = $329.00
E6400 = $227.00

If you're using your system primarily for gaming, get E6400 OCed + 7900GTX/X1900XTX. The extra cache in the E6600 is for workstation type systems.

 

[firewolfsm]

The E6400 has been OCing much better than the E6600 usually because of the speed binning, the extra OC on the E6400 more than makes up for having less cache.

If I had a good motherboard, I would get the E6400 even if they were the same price.

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: firewolfsm
The E6400 has been OCing much better than the E6600 usually because of the speed binning, the extra OC on the E6400 more than makes up for having less cache.

If I had a good motherboard, I would get the E6400 even if they were the same price.

I wouldn't. You're saying that the 6400 is going to get at least 200mhz above an E6600 on average? Doubt it

 

[theteamaqua]

it depends, some E6400 can do 4GHz = 8 x 500 , some E6300 can do 3.5GHz = 7 x 500 thats assuming ur paltform is good, ie good RAM, Motehrboard, PSU ...
best E6600 i have seen is 4.0xx GHz

PS: the above were done on aircooling

i think u jsut need to research some good batch , i heard batch # L628 which is year 06 and week 28 is pretty good.

thata why i get E6400 then wait till intel's manufacturing process get better then get E6600 and OC it to 4GHz

i think batch number is impoortant , however there r good OC CPU within bad batch and bad OC CPU within good batch but they dont happen often

 

[firewolfsm]

Actually, yes, there was even a thread about it a while ago and the general agreement was that the E6400 has a better chance of being a faster CPU than the E6600 if your motherboard is good. And it's more like 150Mhz to make up for the cache

 

[Skott]

From what I see posted the E6400 is generally averaging high of 3.2-3.4 and the E6600 is generally averaging high of 3.4-3.6. Some are getting higher but speaking in general terms and 24/7 stability on aircooling. Naturally watercooling will go higher. If you go by cost vs performance then the E6400 looks to be the winner since its a $100 less on average and gets fairly cloce to the E6600. Newer mobos and newer bios for existing mobos are raising the fsb so these numbers do and can go up but the E6600 should have more headroom. Right now I'd say the E6400 has title win it comes to price vs performance but the E6600 has the potential of being a higher overclocker overall especially if the new mobos and bios can raise the fsb on the mobos. Some might argue the E6600 is a better futureproof chip wether you overclock or not.

Now if you want to talk straight stock speed (no overclocking) then the E6600 wins in raw performance no doubt about it. So if you dont think you'll ever overclock revert to the old addage, "buy as much (fastest) processor as you can afford". Is the E6600 worth $100 more to you? To some $100 isnt much. To others its alot. Only you can decide this question.

Personally, I'd say buy what you want and then dont worry about what the rest of us think. Both are very good chips at what they do.

 

[hans007]

well you'll have a better selection of motherboards to run the e6600 on since the 6300/6400 need relaly high bus speeds to o/c. they do o/c better apparently the allendale core inside of them just runs faster.

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: Skott
From what I see posted the E6400 is generally averaging high of 3.2-3.4 and the E6600 is generally averaging high of 3.4-3.6. Some are getting higher but speaking in general terms and 24/7 stability on aircooling. Naturally watercooling will go higher. If you go by cost vs performance then the E6400 looks to be the winner since its a $100 less on average and gets fairly cloce to the E6600. Newer mobos and newer bios for existing mobos are raising the fsb so these numbers do and can go up but the E6600 should have more headroom. Right now I'd say the E6400 has title win it comes to price vs performance but the E6600 has the potential of being a higher overclocker overall especially if the new mobos and bios can raise the fsb on the mobos. Some might argue the E6600 is a better futureproof chip wether you overclock or not.

Now if you want to talk straight stock speed (no overclocking) then the E6600 wins in raw performance no doubt about it. So if you dont think you'll ever overclock revert to the old addage, "buy as much (fastest) processor as you can afford". Is the E6600 worth $100 more to you? To some $100 isnt much. To others its alot. Only you can decide this question.

Personally, I'd say buy what you want and then dont worry about what the rest of us think. Both are very good chips at what they do.

I agree. And the E6400 would have to be hitting 3.6-3.8 to make up for the lack of cache. It would be interesting to see the FSB differences but you can also always drop your multi on the E6600