Introducing the E4300 - the new budget overclocking champ

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Roguestar

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And overclocking the cheapest to 3.6Ghz is much cheaper than buying a 3.6Ghz C2D (which aren't even released yet if at all).
 

Hajpoj

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We will see it eventually I think, they will stick with C2D for a couple years I hope :p
 

Assimilator1

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Originally posted by: Hajpoj
I must interject that 3.6 ghz doesn't really have any real world performance gains. This is designed to be a value chip for people on a budget, be happy with whatever you can hit with it.

It does if you run any Distributed Computing projects ;)

I for one will be looking forwards to the 4400 ,but I'll be waiting til April before I upgrade from my XPM @2.5GHz :p
 

Avalon

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Originally posted by: Hajpoj
Yes, but the point of buying this cpu is to keep costs down. I don't want to have to go out and buy a new mobo when my current build would support this cpu.

You can find value DDR2-800 for practically the price of DDR2-667 these days. And, at 3.6Ghz, you'd be running that DDR2-800 at stock speed. Not to mention, if you did get DDR2-667 to save a few pennies, it'd still be very likely to overclock to DDR2-800. Most Elpida/Promos will do so.
 

lookin4dlz

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Sounds like this would be great for a real tight-ass like me :) I could get the 775DUAL-VSTA, which seems to max out for most people at 300 fsb, plus the E4400 along with my AGP card & current ram - for $190 this would be great!