E4500 or E6300?

[Sniper82]

I'm a o/cer and I am wondering which would be the better choice and why?

 

[Emission]

Both will do 3 GHz, but the E4500 has an 11x multi, and will do 3.4 GHz without getting unreasonable with the voltage (and probably higher depending on the board and the cooler). I've had an E4500 with a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro that I was able to overclock to 3.4 GHz while keeping the chip at low-mid 60s Celsius. This was on the DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL, really nice results for a board of this price, it will do up to around 550 FSB with the proper settings.

Anyway, the E4500 is a newer stepping, M0, and it's pretty flexible. E6300's need a higher FSB to make it to the same speed, which also means better memory, etc etc. I can't think of any advantages to using an E6300.

 

[Mondoman]

I'd get an e2160 or e2180 instead.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: Mondoman
I'd get an e2160 or e2180 instead.

The prices on those are much nicer. But will I get a good boost in gaming with a E4500 over them? I actually already have E6300@2.8 and was thinking if the E4500 has a higher multiplier maybe I could get more out of the chip since my memory doesn't go much over 800mhz. But if I got one of those two I would def keep the E6300 in my main machine.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Sniper82

Originally posted by: Mondoman
I'd get an e2160 or e2180 instead.

The prices on those are much nicer. But will I get a good boost in gaming with a E4500? I actually already have E6300@2.8 and was thinking if the E4500 has a higher multiplier maybe I could get more out of the chip since my memory doesn't go much over 800mhz.

The improvement will likely not be noticeable, unless you happen to get a chip that can do 3.6ghz easy.

 

[Sniper82]

whats the likeliness of me getting a E4500 and hitting 3.2+ghz fairly easy? I have good cooling I was just thinking since I am upgrading another system maybe I could go with something that might give me more performance/overclocking headroom over the E6300.

 

[DSF]

What exactly are you doing with the computer? You mention gaming, but with a Core2Duo running at 2.8GHz your bottleneck is most likely your graphics card. I notice you have an X1800XT. I would be upgrading that to an HD38x0 or 8800GT before I'd try to get a new CPU. 400 extra MHz isn't going to do jack for your gameplay like a new graphics card would.

 

[Emission]

Originally posted by: DSF
What exactly are you doing with the computer? You mention gaming, but with a Core2Duo running at 2.8GHz your bottleneck is most likely your graphics card. I notice you have an X1800XT. I would be upgrading that to an HD38x0 or 8800GT before I'd try to get a new CPU. 400 extra MHz isn't going to do jack for your gameplay like a new graphics card would.

I agree highly. I took the E4500 to 3.73 on very cold air, and the gaming improvement was not noticeable vs 2.8 GHz (and we're talking a 0.35-0.4v increase to go 1000 MHz further that will only be seen in synthetic benchmarks. There was a much larger difference in performance when I overclocked my 8800GT.