Conroe vs Allendale

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rcrez

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I've read reports saying to be careful of the new 6300/6400s chips coming out as allendales instead of conroes. The concern is that allendale isn't able to achive as high of an overclock as a conroe.

Is this true?

I've seen the e4300 allendale hit 3.8ghz or beyond and it seems like every other conroe maxes out at around that speed.
 
I've got my E4300 Allendale at 3.4 with default voltages. Seems to me that they would overclock better because they have less cache - so less heat and less memory to suffer errors.
 
My Allendale is doing 3200 with a small bump in vcore....to be honest, I have not tried it at default vcore...it might do it....
 
while allendales still have some that do quite well, the average is a bit lower, and or requiring more vcore than conroe counterparts.

If you're in the market now, you'd have to be willing to take the gamble.

But if you can wait another month or two, the e6420 is coming out at pretty attractive prices, and will be a full 4mb conroe. Hopefully intel won't bin them too poorly that they're severely lacking in overclocking.
 
My new E6400 from ZZF states it's an Allendale and I just posted this in another thread asking about these chips:

Hmm, to follow up on the one I received from ZZF. It's an E6400 labeled Q641A426. I can't complain about what I received. I currently have it at 3.2ghz (stock voltage) on a BadAxe 2, Tuniq Tower (30C idle, 54load), Buffalo PC6400 spec'd at 5-5-5-15 but running at 4-4-4-12 at stock voltage as well. I've run it through memtest, orthos, tat, super pi, etc and have yet to have it fail on me. Wonder how much more I should push this thing?

Seems good to me. :)
 
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