Which C2D for best OC'ing?

[SinfulWeeper]

I know it is all a luck of the draw when it comes to OC'ing. But I have been outta the computer market for a while. Anyways I am wondering what OC's the best of the C2D's.

4x00
6x00
6x20

Any insite on this matter will be greatly appreciated. I already have the dominator 10000 memory.

 

[cbuchach]

Myself, I'd still go for a E6600. You should be able to hit at least 3200 if not much more with good cooling and you will be less multiplier restrained if your board for some reason doesn't tolerate high FSB speeds.

 

[cbuchach]

And I should add, the current prices make the E6600 very attractive.

 

[cmdrdredd]

an E6400 would be good too, but I'd get the E6600 now because of the extra cache. It helps, albeit in a small way.

 

[Xvys]

E6300 was one of the best. Not sure if you can still buy them. Mine was a very early cpu which o/c to 3300 MHz at stock 1.32v (470FSB) and goes to 3700 MHz on air with more juice. I have the Asus P5B vanilla, which is fundamentally similar to the Commando. Unfortunately the E6320 is the Allendale core which seems not as o/c friendly as the Conroe. The E6540 1333FSB will become the base model this fall.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

New base models. Lol, I shoulda waited to do some catchin up on tech.
Ordered the motherboard, a 640MB 8800GTS, 2GB PC10000 DDR2, 2x 750GB seagates, DVD lightscribe burner, Blu-Ray drive, 750watt PSU.

Shortly after I order it, P35 chipset motherboards and DDR3 is introduced. Teaches me for jumping the gun before I read up. lol

 

[lopri]

Get an E2140. For $90 a pop, you can't really go wrong. (I'm serious)

 

[SinfulWeeper]

How do they compare to a 6xx0 at the same clock speed? Their cache seems a little small (tho prolly allows for higher clocks)

 

[lopri]

If you're concerned with the L2 size, the current consensus seems to be 6420 > 6600.

And yes, as you correctly pointed out, I'm guessing the E2140s (1.60GHz) will easily do 100% OC (3.20GHz) due to small L2. Also, keep in mind that Intel can bin speeds, but they can't bin L2. L2 is either pass or fail, instead of A/B/C/D. So even though E2140 might have a small L2, my instinctive guess tells me they will clock like mad. (But don't come back to me with dismal OC. OC'ing voids warranty, you know. )

I might order one for the hell of 100% OC.

Edit: Quick google search brought up this page.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=143549

Please note: These guys' results shouldn't be considered a norm. Not only they exploit 'Xtreme' way of overclocking, but also the e-pen1s competition among them is fierce so they are not always honest with the settings, methods, parts, or even the way they present screenshots, etc. (It's a very general comment. Not towards the specific member who posted her/his results) But at least we can see the performance under a certain clock frequency. It looks like the gap @3.50GHz between E2140 (1MB L2) and E6400 (2MB L2) is smaller than the gap between E6400 (2MB L2) and E6600 (4MB L2). In other words, 4MB>>2MB>1MB. At high frequency (i.e. 3.20GHz and above), the E2140's performance penalty against 2MB L2 CPU doesn't look that big.