Pairing a E6300 Wolfdale and a 4870X2

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ibhappy

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My son currently has a E6300 Wolfdale oc's to 3.9 GHz and a 4850 VC.

I'm thinking about getting him a 4870X2 for $166, shipped.

Is it worth it (he runs two 24" monitors at 1920 x 1080)?

Do the E6300 and 4870X2 pair together okay?
 
ibhappy said:
My son currently has a E6300 Wolfdale oc's to 3.9 GHz and a 4850 VC.

I'm thinking about getting him a 4870X2 for $166, shipped.

Is it worth it (he runs two 24" monitors at 1920 x 1080)?

Do the E6300 and 4870X2 pair together okay?
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They won't bottleneck each other too much, if that's what you mean. But ideally I'd put that $166 toward a new motherboard and CPU, RAM too if you don't already have DDR3. The 4870X2 is alot quicker than the 4850, what sort of games does he play?
 
I had a Pentium E6300. Man that thing flew at 4GHz, which I got stable for everyday use. Heat was under control with a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Red Scorpion and Arctic Silver 5.

The X2 might be a little bottlenecked at the stock speed of 2.8GHz... i'm not certain.

note that I was able to raise the FSB of that CPU from 1066mhz to 1333mhz (2.8ghz to 3.5ghz) without a voltage increase, which is damned good! YMMV as every CPU is different
 
well im guessing your cpu will hold back your gpu...

i was running a gtx 460 768mb with a [email protected] and i was getting bottle necked, my cpu usage was at 100% load constant in battlefield bad comapny 2 with low fps and lag.

my advice....

buy the 4870x2 and a q6600, overclock the q6600 to 3.2ghz (easy overclock) and you will be set for a while
 
linkin said:
I had a Pentium E6300. Man that thing flew at 4GHz, which I got stable for everyday use. Heat was under control with a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Red Scorpion and Arctic Silver 5.

The X2 might be a little bottlenecked at the stock speed of 2.8GHz... i'm not certain.

note that I was able to raise the FSB of that CPU from 1066mhz to 1333mhz (2.8ghz to 3.5ghz) without a voltage increase, which is damned good! YMMV as every CPU is different
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I'm using Artic Silver with the stock heat sink/fan and it's not stable at 1.42 volts. It runs at 3.7 at 1.36 volts.

How in voltage do you think I can go?

I'm underclocking the RAM to 1/2 the FSB speed. Is that the right thing to do?
 
funkysnair said:
well im guessing your cpu will hold back your gpu...

i was running a gtx 460 768mb with a [email protected] and i was getting bottle necked, my cpu usage was at 100% load constant in battlefield bad comapny 2 with low fps and lag.

my advice....

buy the 4870x2 and a q6600, overclock the q6600 to 3.2ghz (easy overclock) and you will be set for a while
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Thanks! I have this mobo GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard so that will work.
 
ibhappy said:
I'm using Artic Silver with the stock heat sink/fan and it's not stable at 1.42 volts. It runs at 3.7 at 1.36 volts.

How in voltage do you think I can go?

I'm underclocking the RAM to 1/2 the FSB speed. Is that the right thing to do?
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I ran mine at 1.46v

I'd try to keep it under 1.45

For RAM speed, try to keep at close to rated speeds as possible, maybe overclock in unlinked mode. That way it's easy to diagnose what the problem is when you get a bsod. unlinked mode = cpu. anything else, and it could be either the RAM or CPU.
 
trying to play new(ish) games on a core2duo is hit and miss, its either upgrade the whole system to i5 - i7 spec which will cost alot compared to a q6600 which alot of people in here are still using with no issues.

some people might actualy still be using core2duo cpu's but they would be using the E8*** series which cost about the same as a q6600.
 
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