difference between E4300 vs. E6300?

[nyker96]

Am I missing something or are these just functionally identical same basic core+speed+cache except E6300 is 1066FSB+Vitualization?

 

[AkumaX]

difference? OVERCLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

 

[cmdrdredd]

higher FSB provides more bandwidth to work with. You may or may not notice it, but I bet benchmark numbers will show a difference.

 

[nyker96]

SP you two gents basically is agreeing with me on this one. Of course the 9x multiplier will allow this chip very high OC results using cheap boads.

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
higher FSB provides more bandwidth to work with. You may or may not notice it, but I bet benchmark numbers will show a difference.

I compared the numbers between the E6300 and E4300, and taking into account that the E4300 is clocked 66MHz lower, the slower FSB really doesn't make *that* much of a difference, probably 5% tops in bandwith intensive applications. Of course synthetic bandwith benchmarks will show a big difference.

 

[dguy6789]

The E4300 is 9x200=1.8Ghz correct? The E6300 is 7x266=1.86Ghz correct? If this is the case, the E4300 would be the superior chip as you can reach higher clock speeds with it as a direct result of removing a good portion of FSB strain from the motherboard. This is the same reason the Pentium D 805 is superior to the Pentium D 820.(20x multiplier vs 14x)

This is of course assuming that those are the only differences between the two chips, which I cannot confirm as I have done little research in relation to the E4300.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
higher FSB provides more bandwidth to work with. You may or may not notice it, but I bet benchmark numbers will show a difference.

If you don't notice it, then the performance difference means nothing, correct?

 

[coldpower27]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
The E4300 is 9x200=1.8Ghz correct? The E6300 is 7x266=1.86Ghz correct? If this is the case, the E4300 would be the superior chip as you can reach higher clock speeds with it as a direct result of removing a good portion of FSB strain from the motherboard. This is the same reason the Pentium D 805 is superior to the Pentium D 820.(20x multiplier vs 14x)

This is of course assuming that those are the only differences between the two chips, which I cannot confirm as I have done little research in relation to the E4300.

If your looking at it from the overclocking perspective that those are effectively the only 2 differences worth mentioning, apparently they are also Native Allendale cores which have smaller die size, as well they lack Hardware Virtualization support. Though I am not sure how important those 2 factors are really in relation to overclocking.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
higher FSB provides more bandwidth to work with. You may or may not notice it, but I bet benchmark numbers will show a difference.

If you don't notice it, then the performance difference means nothing, correct?

Different apps stress different aspects of a system. It's a matter of what you're doing with it.

I'm not sure, but I'd wager that a E6300 overclocked with high performance memory will perform better than an overclocked E4300 with the same memory. Simply because the E4300 will be getting less bandwidth to work with and on some occations hickup.

There could be other limitations of other things built into the E4300 to make it perform inferiorly on purpose by Intel.