Speed Difference between 2.7 GHZ and 3.5 GHZ

[Agentbolt]

A friend of mine is looking to build a budget system and was asking about the E4300. He wants a pretty fast processor that'll hit 3.3-3.5 GHZ.

The E4300 is definitely NOT guaranteed to hit those speeds, although it seems pretty much impossible to not at least hit 2.7-2.9 GHZ with one. Since he's trying to do this all cheap, what I was curious about is just HOW much difference there'd be in real world apps between those two speeds. He mostly plays games and web surfs, watches a few movies. He'd be getting most of the other standard stuff, an 8800GTS, 2 gigs of RAM, a 320 GB Seagate HDD.

Are we talking a few frames per second in some games, or would there be a really big, noticeable difference in speed? Just curious, thanks

 

[Agentbolt]

Anyone?

 

[JAG87]

since you have that equipment, why don't you down clock and let us know?

 

[Agentbolt]

I don't really have the know-how to run a bunch of benchmarks, but yeah, I guess I'd better learn. Thanks anyway

 

[Zap]

Why not get an E6300? The E4300 is good for the high multiplier combined with motherboards that don't overclock well - as in mATX boards. Well, also can get by with cheaper RAM. If your friend is going with decent RAM and a regular ATX board, then may as well get the E6300 since those seem to be hitting those clocks with slightly lower vcore (though that may just be my imagination).

 

[trojan698]

^ Agreed on the E6300 front, they all seem to do 3GHz+ and you'd probably spend the same on ram anyway (PC6400). I doubt theres a great deal of money to be saved by going down the E4300 front.

In response to the question I think there is sufficient performance difference to warrant the extra moola especially when you're running a high end graphics card.

Hi btw, first post.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
build a budget system ... wants a pretty fast processor

Of course he wants a pretty fast processor. Who doesn't? But if he's building a "budget" system he should be happy with 2.7 or 3.5 GHz, Can't expect the world unless money is no object.