Core 2 Duo E6600 $280, E6300 $150, OEM plus shipping

[Zap]

C'mon Intel, come out with the E4x00 series already!!! Saw these in my Microcenter email deal.

Core 2 Duo E6600 OEM
$279.99 plus shipping
http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_si...roduct_results.phtml?product_id=243150
coupon for in-store purchase

Core 2 Duo E6300 OEM
$149.99 plus shipping
http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_si...roduct_results.phtml?product_id=243149
coupon for in-store purchase

 

[Aquilifer]

OEM=90 Day Limited Warranty

Too bad, but still a very good deal

 

[neocor]

Wow its been just 4 months since the conroe release and prices have started falling thick and fast.
Nice price for the 6600

neo

 

[aimanzym]

OEM? no retail yet?

 

[EKKC]

damn oem. with tax its the same if i order the retail E6600 from the egg...
but the price for 6300 is pretty damn hot!

 

[AWWWCRAP]

Originally posted by: aimanzym
OEM? no retail yet?

what's the difference between retail and OEM?

 

[TrojanAaron]

OEM = 90 day warranty
Retail = 3 year warranty

OEM = no CPU fan
Retail = might as well have no CPU fan (included stock intel is junk)

 

[TekDemon]

I've never had to actually send in a CPU for repair, and this even includes those old Athlon cores I've worked with where the CPU packaging started to chip a bit on the corners, lol.

I've overclocked: Pentium 166, Pentium III Katmai, Pentium III Coppermine (this one was overclocked 53% on air), Pentium 4 1.6A, Pentium 4 2.4B (northwood). And also owned but did not overclock a Banias plus an Athlon 64 3400+ (754 packaging-not sure of core never checked).

And uhh none of them have ever needed to be sent in for warranty. Honestly, unless you do something horribly stupid and/or extreme it's pretty hard to kill a CPU. More or less if you kill it, it's probably your fault and not really covered under warranty anyway (like static, smashing the die while trying to remove the heatspreader, jamming way too many volts through it, etc.).

 

[Edzard]

Originally posted by: TekDemon
I've never had to actually send in a CPU for repair, and this even includes those old Athlon cores I've worked with where the CPU packaging started to chip a bit on the corners, lol.

I've overclocked: Pentium 166, Pentium III Katmai, Pentium III Coppermine (this one was overclocked 53% on air), Pentium 4 1.6A, Pentium 4 2.4B (northwood). And also owned but did not overclock a Banias plus an Athlon 64 3400+ (754 packaging-not sure of core never checked).

And uhh none of them have ever needed to be sent in for warranty. Honestly, unless you do something horribly stupid and/or extreme it's pretty hard to kill a CPU. More or less if you kill it, it's probably your fault and not really covered under warranty anyway (like static, smashing the die while trying to remove the heatspreader, jamming way too many volts through it, etc.).

Well said.

My historical overclocking mirrors your fairly closely. I started with a P90 @ 100MHz, overclocked some Mendocino and Coppermine Celerons, a few 1.8A Northwood P4s, 4-5 Athlon XPs (Tbred "B" and Barton cores), and three Socket 754 Semprons with E6 cores.

I killed one Celeron (Coppermine core) when I leaned over my test stand and accidently hit its power switch with my stomach. The rig powered up with no heatsink on the Celeron and in my surprise/shock I didn't cut the power quickly enough. CPU "Death by Murphy."

I did have one Celeron 1200 (Tualatin core) die a somewhat mysterious death in a Slot-T adapter on an ABIT BX6 R2.02 board at <= 1.6Vcore. The core was rated at 1.475V so the overvolt was less than 10 percent, and I had never volted it above 1.6Vcore. I did buy it "used" however.

I have routinely run at overclocked CPU frequencies for over six years now. I use air cooling exclusively and usually don't do radical overclocks.

Thus I concur: as long as one doesn't get radical with voltage (and that applies to graphics card core/memory, main system memory, and motherboard chipsets as well), and uses well thought-out cooling, and is careful about mounting/demounting processors, overclocking is in general not terribly risky. The reward is of course getting a $30-50 processor to perform like $200 (or even more expensive) processor.

 

[coolred]

Whats it gonna cost to build a system around one of these(motherboard, CPU, Ram). I am a pretty big AMD fan, and currently have a 3800+ X2. But these core 2 duos seem to kill anything AMD has right now

 

[ValueDriven]

Not a bad deal for the E6300 if your gonna strap on a large air cooler or water or TEC anyway! Not risking too much, $150 not $300+, on the 90 day warranty.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: coolred
Whats it gonna cost to build a system around one of these(motherboard, CPU, Ram).

CPU prices, see above.
RAM, 2GB starts at around $200.
Motherboard, decent overclockers using P965 chipset starts around $115.

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: coolred
Whats it gonna cost to build a system around one of these(motherboard, CPU, Ram).

CPU prices, see above.
RAM, 2GB starts at around $200.
Motherboard, decent overclockers using P965 chipset starts around $115.

The 775 boards do use DDR 2 right,so i would need new ram sinc emy is plain DDR.

Thats still a lot of money, for how much gain over my 3800+

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: coolred

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: coolred
Whats it gonna cost to build a system around one of these(motherboard, CPU, Ram).

CPU prices, see above.
RAM, 2GB starts at around $200.
Motherboard, decent overclockers using P965 chipset starts around $115.

The 775 boards do use DDR 2 right,so i would need new ram sinc emy is plain DDR.

Thats still a lot of money, for how much gain over my 3800+

You could always use this motherboard and re-use your old RAM. I am running an E6400 on one of these and they work really well although the downside to this board is that it doesn't overclock well. But being able to run a C2D with all your old parts is great because even at stock these cpu's are great. Here is another link on this mobo Anandtech review You are looking at a very cheap upgrade this way.

And this is a hot deal... especially that E6300! :thumbsup: