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kalato
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nouseforaname
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| flib wrote: | | Although it's one of those awkward times to buy new hardware for a PC, since theres huge price drops for the core2 duo chips in a month or two, and also the new nvidia cards starting from Feb 12th 07. |
asus z170-A || core i5-6600K || geforce gtx 970 4gb || 16gb ddr4 ram || win10 || 1080p led samsung 27"
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deelix
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Feb 2007 07:12 Post subject: |
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Many people go for the E6600, is this because of the price?
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Feb 2007 08:04 Post subject: |
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I bought a E6600 for around 290 Euro + a Heatsink from Scythe "Ninja" for another 35 Euro
Running it at 3.2, thats almost 1 GHz over the factory setting (2.4 GHz).
Compare that to the X6800 2.93GHz for around 945 Euro, I think the 6600 gives you pretty good value for money, no ? 
If you go for a 6300 or 6400 you end up with a cheaper deal but they only have a CPU Cache at 2 MB, which means that they still run slower then the 6600 at the same OCed speed.
Another reason is that its harder to OC a CPU like the X6800, shure you can but you will reach the limit faster.
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/core2duo_e6600/
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Feb 2007 09:09 Post subject: |
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You guys decide if the E6300 which = Half the price of a E6600 is worth the 5% performance difference due to the L2 Cache when cocked identically, and again this 5% is pretty application dependent. Many times the difference between them is within the margin of error in benchmarking.
If I had the money I'd grab a E6600, but for half the price and near equal overclockability you can get a E6300 but preferrebly a E6400 since it has a higher multiplier, 400Mhz FSB = 3.2Ghz compared to E6300's 400FSB = 2.8Ghz.
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kalato
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Feb 2007 19:33 Post subject: |
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What about buying a 3800 dual core 64 am2? think it will last?
I like bum.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Feb 2007 20:22 Post subject: |
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Are you just looking for a CPU and motherboard? because £140 isn't much to go on and you'd struggle to get a more than a CPU and motherboard if you went the core2 route. I'd still say you should wait until the price drops for the core2's happen.
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