Coach3K
05-31-07, 02:20 PM
I've tried keeping up with different threads over the last few weeks since announcement of the July 22 price cuts came out. I've seen alot of "Woohoo!" and "Sweet!" comments about the price cut to the Q6600 to the $266 price point, but I haven't seen a lot of discussion of the E6X50 CPU's.
I'm going to be building a new comp later in the summer, so the price cut and introduction of these processor options comes at a good time for me. I'm specifically looking at a C2D, not quad.
The question is, what is the practical benefit that the new CPU's will bring?
I know the current E6000 series C2D's generally run at a stock FSB of 1066 (266) with 4MB of L2 cache. The new chart shows the FSB being bumped up to 1333 (333) with nothing else seeming to change. This results in the top 3 CPU's going to 7/8/9 multipliers @ 333.
This obviously will work well with motherboards that provide standard support out of the box for 1333 FSB, so someone who doesn't want to OC will just be able to drop their new E6850 in and run it at 3GHz without messing with anything.
But will these CPU's provide any noticeable advantage for those who'll use either existing high end Mobo's or new P35 boards to OC?
I'm just curious if the new chips seem to just be a good marketing ploy to bridge the gap to Penryn for non-overclockers, or whether there's a compelling reason to look at one of these new CPU's over existing C2D's if I plan to get a P35 board and OC it.
It's relevant now, because if I'm not going with a Quad or one of the new processors, I don't HAVE to wait until July 22nd to do my build and can get started a little earlier.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts.
I'm going to be building a new comp later in the summer, so the price cut and introduction of these processor options comes at a good time for me. I'm specifically looking at a C2D, not quad.
The question is, what is the practical benefit that the new CPU's will bring?
I know the current E6000 series C2D's generally run at a stock FSB of 1066 (266) with 4MB of L2 cache. The new chart shows the FSB being bumped up to 1333 (333) with nothing else seeming to change. This results in the top 3 CPU's going to 7/8/9 multipliers @ 333.
This obviously will work well with motherboards that provide standard support out of the box for 1333 FSB, so someone who doesn't want to OC will just be able to drop their new E6850 in and run it at 3GHz without messing with anything.
But will these CPU's provide any noticeable advantage for those who'll use either existing high end Mobo's or new P35 boards to OC?
I'm just curious if the new chips seem to just be a good marketing ploy to bridge the gap to Penryn for non-overclockers, or whether there's a compelling reason to look at one of these new CPU's over existing C2D's if I plan to get a P35 board and OC it.
It's relevant now, because if I'm not going with a Quad or one of the new processors, I don't HAVE to wait until July 22nd to do my build and can get started a little earlier.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts.