total waste right there, you shouldve gone for an E6600 and use the xtra money for a better vid card, 7900gt and up.Originally Posted by Killa-Eyez
total waste right there, you shouldve gone for an E6600 and use the xtra money for a better vid card, 7900gt and up.
I would even say the E6600 is too much. E6420 is as much as I would spend on a CPU.
The E6420 processor is one crazy overclocking CPU
And I just got a score of 6233 in 3DMark06. Im happy
Last edited by LaZie; Fri, 06-22-2007 at 04:41 AM.
No it's not. The original E6300/6400 were much better overclockers. If yours overclocks well, then you got lucky. The E6x20 chips are stockpiled low quality stuff that failed to quality for E6600 branding. The extra cache also hinders overclocking because it draws more power than chips with 2 MB cache.
My E6300 (from last December) goes over 3.2 GHz with 1.22v. I can probably reach somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.4 GHz at near-stock voltage if I had some better memory. I highly doubt yours can even come close to that in terms of clock/voltage. Not many new C2Ds nowadays can. It was very common a while back to find people with crazy overclocked E6300s. You don't see that anymore with E6320/6420s.
Last edited by Board of Command; Fri, 06-22-2007 at 05:48 PM.
Planning on getting the following :
cpu
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (S775, 2x2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB, Boxed)
6850 will be released end of the next month, so I might pick that one up instead..
Graphics Card
Asus GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DDR3 (PCI-e, 2x DVI) EN800GTS/HTDP/640M
or
Asus GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB DDR3 (PCI-e, 2x DVI) EN8800GTX/HTDP
Motherboard
Asus P5W64 WS Professional, 975X (ATX, PCI-e, Sound, LAN, SATA II, RAID, 1394a)
RAM
4GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 DIMM (Kit of 2)
HD's
2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000KS, 500GB (7200rpm, SATA II, 16MB)
Soundcard
Undecided.
But I do fear it might be better to buy one late November, perhaps even late December. Close to game-releases.
its funny how ppl spend a ton on cpu's/vid cards, but have a lame as hell sound system...
I don't think that's really surprising. To play many of the latest games, you need an uber CPU and GPU to get the game to run smoothly at all, but even the sound chip on your mobo is enough to get the game running.
Besides, sound systems haven't seen nearly as much development as video cards. There isn't yet even really functional real-time 3D sound. If you think about those prerecorded clips listened to with headphones where you hear a matchbox being shaken around your head, closer and farther away. Simulations (games) are still miles away from that. Because sound cards are stepchilds compared to video cards.
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