E6600 or E6300/6400?

[Kaiden]

Help me, lol!

I am planning to order my new parts of my new pc... trying to stay under $1500 for everything except the monitor.

Anyway I am having difficulties finding decent motherboards that people are recommending for the 4mb cache chips and I'm seeing great overclocking abilities with the E6300, so i'm not sure which to get? I'm thinking if I went 6300 or 6400 I could easily throw in a 7950X2 or something.

 

[thomaslfessler]

If it makes any difference to you, my week 626 E6400 hit 3.4 with no trouble what so ever. I almost pulled the trigger at newegg on a E6600 but then luckily switched to a E6400. The E6400 is a great proc.

thx,
thomas

 

[Michaelius]

If it's going to be gaming rig additional cash into GPU will be smarter choice.