The title pretty much sums up my question.
The link below shows some of the specs and prices of all the cpu's in the subject title.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16819115015,N82E16819115014,N82E16819115003
I have substituted the E6300 and E6400 for the E6320 and E6420, because. .
1) they are actually cheaper, and. .
2) from what I have read, they have 4MB's of L2 cache instead of only 2MB's, and whatever other perfomance differences I have no idea, and thus brings me to my actual question.
What is the "oc" speed/performance and the Non-"oc" speed/performance difference between all these cpu's?
(It should be known that I do not do any gaming. I will be using a Blu-ray burner in this new system build for both playing Blu-ray ROM movies and recording TV programs directly from my satellite TV system on to my hardrive or burner. I also do a lot of web surf multi-tasking comparing info/prices from 1 site to many others.)
From some of what I have read, some sites say "the improvement from Ocing, is not worth much of a noticeable difference"
However I dont understand how some sites can say that, when the following website. . .
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=431&chart=189
. . . shows that there is at least a 10-20% speed difference between the E6400 and the E6700. (I assume that "ocing" a cpu with all the same specs as another but of difference "stock" Ghz speeds, just makes the lower "stock" cpu speed as fast as another higher "stock" cpu speed after the cpu has been oc'd?) Please correct me if any of this is wrong.
I should say that I dont think its worth the extra money ($200w/tax for the E6420 vs. $347w/tax for the E6700 from Newegg)for only 10-20% difference in time speed performance, (at least as far as the cpu chart comparison at the tomshardware website shows.)
Now because the tomshardware website does not list and show the performance of the E6320 nor the E4300 or the E4400, I dont know what the speed performance of these 3 here mentioned cpu's are like, compared to the E6420 and above.
Can anyone give me any ideas about how much slower the E6320 and even the E4300 and E4400 cpu's are compared to the more expensive E6420?
I know there is only a little more than $20 difference between the E6420 and the E6320, but because I am "considering" trying to oc my cpu(someday) I would rather try to do it with a less expensive cpu, because I have never oc'd before, and I would kill myself if I accidentally kill the cpu. Plus, again, I dont know what the speed/performance difference is between the E6420 and the E6320, let alone the E4300 or E4400 or what the after "oc" resulting difference between them all would be either. Please let me know.
Can anyone give me some advice on what the speed/performance difference between the above cpu's are like? and perhaps what I would and would not be able to do with some of the cpu's vs. the other cpu's? and ultimately, so I can just make up my mind and finally decide which cpu to get? Long, tall order here. Any good help and advice is very much needed and very much looked forward to. (If someone can explain whether its the FSB, or Ghz speed or whatever aspect that makes the cpu fast or slow, I think that would also help a lot too)
The link below shows some of the specs and prices of all the cpu's in the subject title.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16819115015,N82E16819115014,N82E16819115003
I have substituted the E6300 and E6400 for the E6320 and E6420, because. .
1) they are actually cheaper, and. .
2) from what I have read, they have 4MB's of L2 cache instead of only 2MB's, and whatever other perfomance differences I have no idea, and thus brings me to my actual question.
What is the "oc" speed/performance and the Non-"oc" speed/performance difference between all these cpu's?
(It should be known that I do not do any gaming. I will be using a Blu-ray burner in this new system build for both playing Blu-ray ROM movies and recording TV programs directly from my satellite TV system on to my hardrive or burner. I also do a lot of web surf multi-tasking comparing info/prices from 1 site to many others.)
From some of what I have read, some sites say "the improvement from Ocing, is not worth much of a noticeable difference"
However I dont understand how some sites can say that, when the following website. . .
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=431&chart=189
. . . shows that there is at least a 10-20% speed difference between the E6400 and the E6700. (I assume that "ocing" a cpu with all the same specs as another but of difference "stock" Ghz speeds, just makes the lower "stock" cpu speed as fast as another higher "stock" cpu speed after the cpu has been oc'd?) Please correct me if any of this is wrong.
I should say that I dont think its worth the extra money ($200w/tax for the E6420 vs. $347w/tax for the E6700 from Newegg)for only 10-20% difference in time speed performance, (at least as far as the cpu chart comparison at the tomshardware website shows.)
Now because the tomshardware website does not list and show the performance of the E6320 nor the E4300 or the E4400, I dont know what the speed performance of these 3 here mentioned cpu's are like, compared to the E6420 and above.
Can anyone give me any ideas about how much slower the E6320 and even the E4300 and E4400 cpu's are compared to the more expensive E6420?
I know there is only a little more than $20 difference between the E6420 and the E6320, but because I am "considering" trying to oc my cpu(someday) I would rather try to do it with a less expensive cpu, because I have never oc'd before, and I would kill myself if I accidentally kill the cpu. Plus, again, I dont know what the speed/performance difference is between the E6420 and the E6320, let alone the E4300 or E4400 or what the after "oc" resulting difference between them all would be either. Please let me know.
Can anyone give me some advice on what the speed/performance difference between the above cpu's are like? and perhaps what I would and would not be able to do with some of the cpu's vs. the other cpu's? and ultimately, so I can just make up my mind and finally decide which cpu to get? Long, tall order here. Any good help and advice is very much needed and very much looked forward to. (If someone can explain whether its the FSB, or Ghz speed or whatever aspect that makes the cpu fast or slow, I think that would also help a lot too)
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