e4300/4400 -vs- e6300/6400

[crumpet]

As a soon-to-be 775 man, I'm curious...



Best value?

Most stable?

Overall choice?


Seeing as I'll be buying one of these soon, I thought I'd ask you guys what you think. :D have at it!

[orion25]

Well, it depends. What mobo and RAM are you going to be using this CPU with.

[crumpet]

P5B Delx/Wifi

RAM still undecided, but I'm looking at getting a hold of 2GB Corsair XMS2 ddr2 800.

[Jon]

Also depends on which E6X00 you get. Conroes typically yield better overclocks, but are getting scarce. Almost everyone is carrying the Allendales now, in which case the only real difference between the E4X00 and E6X00 is the bus and multiplier.

You can try your luck on getting a Conroe, but if you don't get one, you'll catch a lower multiplier than what the E4X00 give you with the pad mod to 1066/1333MHz.

[hUMANbEATbOX]

also, if you are looking ahead to the e4400, then it would only be right to include the e6320 and e6420's in the comparison. these will be Conroe, and have a full 4mb of cache, just like the e6600 and up. they should be available around the same time as the e4400, and should be priced exactly the same as the regular e6300 and e6400 (save for the inevitable initial price gouging).

[crumpet]

lol well, soon after posting this I found price listings on here for the new releases. Looks like I'm waiting till august. :D

(Q6600=$266. That's one thing I will wait for. :D )