E6420 vs. E6600..

ThatGuy16

ThatGuy16

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in your opinion is the E6600 worth the extra bones? I'm a bit on a budget...i can get the 6600 but i would have to hold off on a new GPU :( ,and if you OC the 6420 are they more comparable?
 
the E6420, according to newegg reviews, was easily overclockable to 3.4GHz, with someone even claiming 3.7. If you're on a tight budget like it seems, I would probably go with E6420
 
The only difference is the multiplier, the 6320 and 6420 have the same cache as the E6600. The 6320 is 7x, the 6420 8x, 6600 is 9x.
 
cheaper ram? higher clock? No, all RAM is supposed to be the same, I don't see how that would work. RAM is RAM, CPU's are CPU's.......What are you talking about?
 
i may just bite the bullet and get the 6600 because im not much of an overclocker simply because i have never done it...so i don't have much experience and it voids the warranty, right?
 
if you were to overclock on a 1:1 ratio, you'd be increasing the fsb and the ram could bottleneck you're overlock because of that, right? with a higher multiplier, you're overclocking the fsb less to get teh same speed, thus affecting your ram less.

so since the e6600 has a larger multiplier, isnt it technically more ram friendly with its overclocks although both chips overclock to relatively similar speeds?

idk. i thought i understood overclocking but i didnt actually, til last night. now im just in the thinking phase...
 
you can change the ratio of how your fsb affects your ram in the bios so no the ram is not the bottleneck as you are tecnhically not overclocking your ram
 
yea. i know. i've never actually overclocked before, and i'm just figuring everything out now. but i heard taht a 1:1 ratio is the best to use when overlocking, and although its not usually ideal, its better to use it when possible as other ratios adds extra delays when communicating with the ram.
 
ezefosure said:
if you were to overclock on a 1:1 ratio, you'd be increasing the fsb and the ram could bottleneck you're overlock because of that, right? with a higher multiplier, you're overclocking the fsb less to get teh same speed, thus affecting your ram less.

so since the e6600 has a larger multiplier, isnt it technically more ram friendly with its overclocks although both chips overclock to relatively similar speeds?
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You're Absolutely correct, ezefosure.

so with the e6600 you could get a higher clock with cheaper ram?
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Yep, a higher clock (absolutely useless to an overclocker considering they use the same core) and by ram you mean cache right (same thing really)? CPU's use SRAM, a very fast, non-volatile ram.. it basically means that it doesnt have to be constantly refreshed, meaning the wait times normal ram (dram,sdram) take disappear. But to answer your second question, no. SRAM is the only type of ram used in procs' and i don't believe they have a less expensive variant of it.
 
ezefosure said:
yea. i know. i've never actually overclocked before, and i'm just figuring everything out now. but i heard taht a 1:1 ratio is the best to use when overlocking, and although its not usually ideal, its better to use it when possible as other ratios adds extra delays when communicating with the ram.
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Right again. However if you do choose to put a divider on the ram you will never actually notice the performance loss.. It's just too small to actually matter in my opinion. But running with a divider is typically less stable than running it 1:1 ratio.. and being stable is super important when overclecking :)
 
As has been said, but in a different way:

With 965P boards, the least ratio you can use is 1:1. That means, your Ram is going to be the same as your FSB. With the 6320, you are going to need a FSB of 500Mhz to get 3.5Ghz, which means your Ram is going to be running at 500Mhz as well, otherwise known as DDR2-1000. DDR2-1000 isn't easy to reach, even with DDR2-800 modules.
 
ok. so i was right, but the differences are so minimal it doesn't really matter? like a 1% or less difference?

lol. kinda confused by "Yep, a higher clock (absolutely useless to an overclocker considering they use the same core) and by ram you mean cache right (same thing really)? CPU's use SRAM, a very fast, non-volatile ram.. it basically means that it doesnt have to be constantly refreshed, meaning the wait times normal ram (dram,sdram) take disappear."

i meant ram, not the cpu's cache. like.. the dimm/sticks you put in your motherboard. but the post afterwards KINDA cleared up everything. thanx
 
lol. np. thanx tho. even tho it didn't answer what i asked, it was an extra bit of info that i now know.

you actually did help me out a lot.
 
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