E6300 or E6400?????

[EdzAviator]

Which should I buy, I'm on budget...But I needed performance because I'm gonna do a LOT of Video & Audio ENCODING........

An E6300 or E6400???

I'm on a budget for now, so when I'll buy E6300, I'll pair it with 1GB DDR2...
If E6400, then I'll pair it with 512md DD2...Then I'll buy another 512mb DDR2 on November......

So should I go with the higher model & sacrifice my memory now but I'll be adding it in 2 months...Or E6300 is enough, I'll pait with 1GB of DDR2..

ADVICE Pls...................

 

[adairusmc]

If you are gonna do a lot of video and audio encoding, then I would get the E6300 with the 1gig of RAM. I think the memory would help you more than the speed difference between the 6300 and the 6400. You could always try overclocking the E6300 anyways.

 

[lopri]

What is your budget? And that budget is for what? (CPU/Memory? CPU/Memory/Motherboard/vidio card?)

 

[EdzAviator]

I mean my budget is limited.....(AS OF NOW)

If I buy E6300, then I can purchuse a 1GB DDR2.......
If E6400 is the case, then I can only buy 512MB DDR2....BUT I'M GONNA BUY ANOTHER 512MB IN NOVEMBER TO MAKE IT 1GB....

And I'm not an OC'er, so I'm gonna run my machine at stock speed...

So which is better at stock speed.....????

 

[lopri]

That is tough. Can you do E6300 + 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2?

 

[EdzAviator]

My memory is only for temporary coz my dad's gonna send me 2x 1GB this Xmas & i'll change it right away.....

 

[The Green Bean]

get the e6400

 

[lopri]

Yea but stlil look at this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220095

These sticks are reportedly using Micron D9 chips. Damn cheap for 2GB set.

 

[EdzAviator]

I know that memory means a lot in encoding....

But i really can't afford that now.....

If using 2GB of mem, cpu at stock speed, does E6400's performance difference very noticeable from the E6300????????????

 

[harpoon84]

E6400 is 2.13GHz, E6300 is 1.86GHz. The difference will be around 10%, give or take.

 

[peleejosh]

If you are using cpu at stock speed, then you should get the e6400, if you are going to overclock, get the e6300

 

[eelw]

What type of video encoding are you doing? I encode files to h.264 with QT7 and it only needs around 50-60 MBs of RAM when encoding 500+ MB MPEG2 files on my E6400. For some odd reason, that same encode on my Northwood 3.4, it needed like 200-300MB of RAM. So I originally was going to get 2 GB for my Conroe rig, but I'm fine with it at 512MB.