E5300 vs E6850

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Matthew Kane

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Which one is better, that is both overclocked, performance, overall and performance in games from 2006 onwards to now.

E5300 brand new is 89
E6850 2nd hand, never overclocked 79 on ebay

SO which one?
 
The E5300 is based on the Wolfdale core which is 10% faster clock for clock than the Conroe core of the E6850. However the extra L2 cache of the E6850 does close the gap a bit as a 4MB L2 cache is roughly 5% faster than a 2MB L2 cache CPU based on the same core. So the E5300 would be about 5% to 10% faster than the E6850. The E5300 would OC a bit higher than the E6850 IIRC.

BTW see if the E5200 is cheaper than the E5300.
 
i have had 2 or 3 6850's and still have one in an htpc. they dont overclock for shit. i think they were about the highest binned conroes which did not leave much headroom. they also run a tad warmish. dont expect to get much more than 34-3500 on a regular 6850, a 20% overclock. i know somwe guys have ones that are "great" overclockers. but most arent.
 
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my e6850 is at 3.6ghz on an arctic cooling freezer pro 7. it only required a small voltage increase to get it 100% stable, and it idles amazingly cool. Its not going to take much to push it to 4ghz, but im not willing to go that far on my current heatsink ( i cant get a bigger hs as it wont fit in my shitbox of a case) and im not sure my cheap shit ram could go that far ( i want to keep my ram multi at 1:1)
there is nothing wrong with the e6850.

edit: validated cpuz
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=667707
 
SoAndSo said:
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my e6850 is at 3.6ghz on an arctic cooling freezer pro 7. it only required a small voltage increase to get it 100% stable, and it idles amazingly cool. Its not going to take much to push it to 4ghz, but im not willing to go that far on my current heatsink ( i cant get a bigger hs as it wont fit in my shitbox of a case) and im not sure my cheap shit ram could go that far ( i want to keep my ram multi at 1:1)
there is nothing wrong with the e6850.

edit: validated cpuz
[url]http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=667707[/url][/QUOTE]



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Zero82z said:
Well yeah, you're running DDR2-667 at a 3:4 ratio with the FSB and hitting a speed of 728MHz. Set the ratio down to 1:1 and you should be able to get your FSB higher.
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I can't on the G31M-ES2L. Only DRAM ratio options are 2.66, 3.33, 4.0+ and Auto. Currently its on 2.66 ratio with Auto Timings, if I tightened the RAM timings a bit, the pc would not boot.
 
Matthew Kane said:
I can't on the G31M-ES2L. Only DRAM ratio options are 2.66, 3.33, 4.0+ and Auto.
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Hmm, try setting it to Auto then and see what speed the RAM gets set to. It seems a bit ridiculous to me that the board doesn't let you select a 1:1 ratio.
 
On Auto or 3.33 ratio (samething) I can get to about 3.3ish with +0.3 voltage on the RAM running at 867 which is really a huge 200mhz oc on the RAM.
 
Grabbed one of these today (e5300) for $70... @ 3.6g on the first try. Not bad. Beats my Conroe e6300 @ 2.8 (slightly.. lol).
 
Ran my E5200 at 4.25Ghz 24/7 at 1.34v. Surprisingly fast chip. I would get a wolfdale over a conroe any day.
 
I was definitely a fan of the E5200 when I had it. I'm thinking of picking up a E5300 to play around with while I wait to see if I'm going to do a full upgrade with i5/i7.
 
Its been about 3 weeks now, and my E5300 @ 4.1/ 1.3875v, has been running really good so far, very stable. I must say, this and any 9800gt + graphics card coupleed together will give some good gaming performance (except for GTA IV, which only gets its beneficial performance from Quads).
 
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