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alright so im going intel

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joshlet

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but i can't make up my mind as to a few things. i've established that i'm going to use intels new p35 chipset along with some ddr2 for the time being. the only thing i cant determine is what CPU im going to use. so far my options are narrowed down to the following:

e4300 - $145
e6300 - $200
e6420 - $237

these prices are in canadian, by the way. anyways i want to use this computer for mostly gaming but at the same time, i would like to save money where i can. i've read articles about o/cing and these three cpus seem to be all very good performers.

is the 100 dollar gap between the e4300 and e6420 justified? will i be able to overclock the 6420 that much higher than i would the 4300 or 6300? keep in mind im going to get some very nice air cooling.

im confused, i don't know what to get. im expecting responses like "well you can't go wrong with any of those cpus" and i totally understand that. i'll spend the extra 100 some odd dollars if the performance is that much greater after overclocking.

anyways sorry for the run on post, i'm just a consumer with many choices available to him and at this point i know not the correct choice to make.

help!
 
joshlet said:
is the 100 dollar gap between the e4300 and e6420 justified?
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That's up to you to decide. I bought an E6600 myself, so apparently I could justify it, and more.

joshlet said:
will i be able to overclock the 6420 that much higher than i would the 4300 or 6300? keep in mind im going to get some very nice air cooling.
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Matter of luck, you can never tell. It could go either way. There are no guarantees in overclocking.
 
Well, if I were you, I'd totaly wait another month to see if that q6600 actually goes down to $266USD, if thats with in your price range, and shoot for it.
 
Yes, it's slated for 22 July 2007 (price cuts), IIRC. At any rate, here's my personal experience. I've always been a budget CPU into a beast type of overclocker. It started with the Celeron Slot 1 300A, running at 504MHz. I'll pay more to cool the chip than the chip itself. Yes, that's not for everyone, I know, but that's me. I got an e4300 on trade from a guy here on the forums. He had never overclocked it, and had no idea how to even do so, I don't think. I am currently in the Core2Duo overclocking database, right smack in the middle of the E4300's section, chugging along at 3195MHz, from 1800 (stock). I know the 6420's are running up and above 3200, so they're a faily safe bet, plus, you're getting 4mb L2 cache, which is always a bonus. Does it make sense to pay the difference? That's your decision. If you intend to overlock, and keep it OC'd, my advise would be to find the chips that are most consistantly hitting the OC that you're looking to reach. It's not a garauntee, by any means, that you'll attain a similar OC, but I think it gives you an idea of a range to expect. Weigh this against the price, and pull the trigger on what you suits you best. I will personally be waiting until the end of this year to upgrade my CPU, and will be moving to whatever the new budget quad-core is at that time.
 
i have a e4300 running at 2.4 (didnt yet bother clocking higher, im sure itll be able to do 3.0 or whatever), and im loving it

but then again, i deliberately went for the cheapest c2d, since i plan on getting a q6600 later this year
 
Celestial Avenger said:
More like two months. Also, if he's not a heavy photoshop user or CG renderer, he doesn't need it.
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Yeah, but with the big price drop comming, theres not much reason not to get a quad core for that price. More and more programs and games are getting threaded. Multi-core processors are going to be standard soon, if not already. Getting a quad now will give you a bit of future proofing.

Game like Bioshock, SupCom, Crysis, Source Engine based games, etc, all have support for multi-cores, and I'm sure most future engines will support it as well. Also, more and more apps are adding support for it.

So really, for that low of a price (if it does actually drop to that) you might as well. Not to mention they OC fairly well.
Not to mention heavy multitasking or having jive run in the background while gaming.

3 years down the line, if you dont upgrade your CPU very offten, you'll probably be glad you have the 4 cores.
 
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