Core 2 Duo E4300 coming in January for $163!

[sindows]

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060921A7034.html

 

[Mellman]

interesting - why not just get a 6300?

 

[dexvx]

533FSB, so you dont have to get bottlenecked by your board's FSB. Even those people with "lowly" 945p based boards can do a 1.8Ghz -> 2.7Ghz overclock relatively easily, just by using the 200FSB setting.

Although I originally thought this would be an 800FSB part.

 

[sindows]

The E4300 should get the 800FSb, if not, just means a higher multiplier for us to work with

If it has an 8000 fsb, it'll have a 9x multiplier.
If it has a 553fsb, it'll have a 13.5x multiplier which means you can get a beastly overclock no matter which motherboard you use...

 

[dexvx]

Yea, I'd suspect that an E4300 will have about the same overclock potential as the E6300.

1.8Ghz / 533 -> 2.7Ghz / 800 seems to be a cakewalk and cheap, as I've seen C2-D 945 boards go for around $60 or less.

 

[Iceboie]

E6300 ($183) vs E4300($163)

Tough decision but shouldn't the E6300 be more stable than the E4300?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Who knows? The only thing we know for sure is that the E6300 will have EIST and VT, while the E4300 will not.

 

[FelixDeCat]

: drool;

 

[smopoim86]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
: drool;

High multiplier on a core 2!!!!!:thumbsup:

 

[harpoon84]

I'm pretty sure it's 800FSB, not 533FSB.

800FSB on a x9 multi is actually pretty much the 'ideal' multi considering what current Conroes are doing.

If you can manage to double the clockspeed to 3.6GHz you are still doing a 400FSB (pre quad pumped of course, 1.6GHz effective), almost every single 965/975 board can do that no problems. On a 1:1 mem/FSB ratio that would mean DDR2-800, and pretty much all DDR2 on the market nowadays can overclock to DDR2-800 speeds.

 

[hans007]

the original reports said that it was the e4200 at $163 and the e4300 would cost the same as the e6300.


that said, i would not really expect these cpus to be all that wide spread in use. the original reason for them was the 946g chipset only supports up to 800bus on core2duo. but if you look at even the intel retail board 946g chipsets on their site, even those boards support the 1066 bus.

oh well i couldn't wait and bought an e6300 for $160 used. january is so far away.