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OC 6300 vs OC 6600

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JohnIrish

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I will be building a new computer soon but with all my reasearch I have never seen an OC comparison... ...

If I get a modest OC on a 6300.... (3.2 to 3.5) and a modest OC on a 6600 ( ?? Not sure how much this can OC)

Will there be any REAL world difference? I am not talking benchmarks but a noticable difference.

Thoughts?

 
well the 6300 only has 2mb l2 cache, and the 6600 has 4mb. If they are running at the same clock speed, you shouldnt see any REAL world difference, exept like 2fps in games. (not noticbal)
 
The 6600 will almost definitely overclock higher, but not enough to justify the price if you're low on cash. Still, it's a solid investment and if you have the money I'd go for it just to ensure the performance.
 
Some people are just incapable of searching. This is probably the third (maybe more?) thread this week asking a similar/same question. If you bothered to search at all you would have seen the answer and that is to just go with the e6300 because you can't justify spending so much more for such a slight performance increase. There was an actual percent somewhere on a thread I was reading yesterday comparing the two, so do a little looking around next time.
 
Originally posted by: InFeXiOn
Some people are just incapable of searching. This is probably the third (maybe more?) thread this week asking a similar/same question. If you bothered to search at all you would have seen the answer and that is to just go with the e6300 because you can't justify spending so much more for such a slight performance increase. There was an actual percent somewhere on a thread I was reading yesterday comparing the two, so do a little looking around next time.
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Are you the search police? 😕

lol
 
I'm wondering the same thing because my friend just bought an E6600, I think he hit 3.4GHZ already with liquid cooling. If I can hit that with an E6300(which is very possible) I'd be happy though, considering the E6300 is a pretty good deal.
 
Originally posted by: JohnIrish
I will be building a new computer soon but with all my reasearch I have never seen an OC comparison... ...

If I get a modest OC on a 6300.... (3.2 to 3.5) and a modest OC on a 6600 ( ?? Not sure how much this can OC)

Will there be any REAL world difference? I am not talking benchmarks but a noticable difference.

Thoughts?
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3.2-3.5 isn't too modest for a 6300

As for realworld performance, what would you do with the computer? If you're talking about a professional workstation, I'm sure there will be a difference; if you're talking about basic email and the occasional something from Yahoo games, then no, you could have an Athlon X2 and be more than fine. If you do multimedia encoding, you'll probably notice a difference, a hardcore gamer might, depends on your vid card, very likely an average gamer won't notice at all.
 
they will both get above 3Ghz...the only difference is the multiplier and the amount of cache it has (2MB vs 4MB).

i'd say go for the E6600 as it starts out at 2.4Ghz and makes 3Ghz seem easy to reach. if you dont have the money for that/dont feel like spending that much, an E6300/E6400 is still very good and is by no means a slouch. i highly doubt you will see a difference between 2MB and 4MB of cache. (my current cpu - p4 2.4C @ 2.95 has 512KB of cache, so ANYTHING above it will be sweet)
 
Originally posted by: InFeXiOn
Some people are just incapable of searching. This is probably the third (maybe more?) thread this week asking a similar/same question. If you bothered to search at all you would have seen the answer and that is to just go with the e6300 because you can't justify spending so much more for such a slight performance increase. There was an actual percent somewhere on a thread I was reading yesterday comparing the two, so do a little looking around next time.
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Searching tools are far from perfect. Got into "advanced search", type "6300" in "All of these words" or "any of these words" field with ALL forums selected on the right... and you'll get ONE hit lol, to a post about jobs in India! Search Results
 
Hey InFeXiOn

Please show me the 3 threads (or more) in the last week that discuss this topic!

I have only seen overcocking threads on what they achieved but not a direct comparison.

Please dont post USELESS comments if you have not searched before! LOL

thanks for all the other valuable comments

JohnIrish
 
OP: 3.2Ghz to 3.5Ghz is a huge overclock on an E6300 and is by no means modest. With good quality RAM you can get 3.6 on most E6600s, motherboard depending. The question is if you want to spend the money to get maybe 300 or 500 Mhz out of it. The E6300 has better bang for buck, especially when overclocked. Read the threads in the CPU/OC forum "The Definitive, Unbiased Core 2 Duo Overclocking Megathread" and "Conroe/DDR2 memory guide". They're both rather long but worth it in my opinion. Good luck with your choices and overclock.

Originally posted by: InFeXiOn
Some people are just incapable of searching. This is probably the third (maybe more?) thread this week asking a similar/same question. If you bothered to search at all you would have seen the answer and that is to just go with the e6300 because you can't justify spending so much more for such a slight performance increase. There was an actual percent somewhere on a thread I was reading yesterday comparing the two, so do a little looking around next time.
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And if you bothered to use the search feature and read the forums a little more you'd know that the search feature is flippin' rubbish and quite broken. So hold your tongue next time if you don't have anything constructive to contribute. Tch.
 
3.2 GHz is what an E6300 would typically reach. You'd need really good memory to go beyond that.

The E6300 in my sig is undervolted by 0.075v which I think is a pretty good performance/heat ratio. I'm going to try and undervolt it some more when I get some time.
 
Damn, man. Now you got me all annoyed I'm not undervolting mine! 😉

There's a project for the weekend... :thumbsup:
 
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