E6400 vs E4300 for HTPC

thegreek · Jan 31, 2007

i am looking to buy one of these for a HTPC i will be building. i want to oc it to 400 FSB, i'm pretty sure most MB's can do this now. The question is which would be more ideal for the HTPC:

E6400 @ 400x8
E4300 @ 400x8

which one of these setups will give me better performance with good temps (asking because I heard the E4300 gets pretty hot when oc'd). my cooling will be an ultra-120 with a yate loon fan.

hUMANbEATbOX · Jan 31, 2007

personally, i would go with the e6400. it should do those clocks cooler.

MattCoz · Jan 31, 2007

Does the 4300 get hotter? I hadn't heard that. I assumed that temps would be about the same at load, while the 4300 would be cooler at idle.

Looks like I have the exact setup you're thinking about. E6400 cooled by a Ultra 120 and Yate Loon fan. When running Orthos my temps get up to 52c.

hUMANbEATbOX · Jan 31, 2007

the e6400 would probably need less voltage to run 3.2ghz. of course, every cpu is different, and its all luck of the draw.

Evilsizer · Jan 31, 2007

that and the e4300 is on the true allendale core L2 revision. you might still be getting B2 E63/64's. on the upside as to being cheaper the e4300 wont need high clocking ram to reach its max oc.

thegreek · Jan 31, 2007

Evilsizer said:
that and the e4300 is on the true allendale core L2 revision. you might still be getting B2 E63/64's. on the upside as to being cheaper the e4300 wont need high clocking ram to reach its max oc.

the ram will be pushed to 400 FSB (800 mhz) which mostly all of them can do, so that isn't a problem

greenmaji · Jan 31, 2007

The cooling you plan on useing will handle either chip at your clock goal.. Just go for the cheaper one unless your considering clocking the CPU higher.

batboy · Jan 31, 2007

I would not expect the E4300 to easily hit 400 FSB with quiet air. I sure would not want my HTPC running a high speed fan. Besides, I don't O/C my HTPC to the max because I want 110% stability. The E6400 at 400 FSB would be my choice.

thegreek · Jan 31, 2007

batboy said:
I would not expect the E4300 to easily hit 400 FSB with quiet air. I sure would not want my HTPC running a high speed fan. Besides, I don't O/C my HTPC to the max because I want 110% stability. The E6400 at 400 FSB would be my choice.

i agree, i wasn't going to OC at all but i wanted to watch dvds using ffdshow and to make sure i'll have enough power for HD later on.

Jon · Jan 31, 2007

thegreek said:
i agree, i wasn't going to OC at all but i wanted to watch dvds using ffdshow and to make sure i'll have enough power for HD later on.

My 805 can do that at stock. You won't have any issues with a decent video card (and even that only needs to be about a 6200 or better).

splat · Jan 31, 2007

You could even get away with a cheapy socket 939 amd single core setup. There is no need for an overclocked c2d in a HTPC. You can get Venice 3400+ OEM for $55.99 at the Egg. Newegg even has a paired deal right now for that proc with the Asus k8t890 for $94.90 total. get a $30 6200tc (non tc if you can) or 7300le, 1 gig of ddr400 for ~$75, and a quiet cooler for a very capable htpc setup.

Jon · Jan 31, 2007

Think I'll move this to the HTPC section since that is what we made it for...

thegreek · Jan 31, 2007

those of you running a HTPC, what kind of MB are you using? I am looking for a board that will take 400 FSB with easily and be very stable. the boards i'm looking at right now are:

Asus P5B-E
Asus P5B Deluxe
Intel 975XBX2

i will use it to run a 6400 @ 400 FSB and DDR677 @ 800... i know all of the can do it but i'm looking for the one that will give me the least amount of problems.

Wicked Klown · Jan 31, 2007

Right now I'm running a x2 3800 @ 2.3GHz, Abit AN8 Sli, 2gigs OCZ OC3200 and a eVga 7900GT KO, Tihs friday I'll be replacing all this with a Intel e4300, Abit AB9 QuadGT, 2gigs PC2 6400 G.Skill and keeping the 7900GT KO for the time being. I noticed with this chip it doesn't run FFDshow all that well and all the Intel guys are having no problem with it. So I thought I might as well try Intel and see what happens.

thegreek · Jan 31, 2007

Wicked Klown said:
Right now I'm running a x2 3800 @ 2.3GHz, Abit AN8 Sli, 2gigs OCZ OC3200 and a eVga 7900GT KO, Tihs friday I'll be replacing all this with a Intel e4300, Abit AB9 QuadGT, 2gigs PC2 6400 G.Skill and keeping the 7900GT KO for the time being. I noticed with this chip it doesn't run FFDshow all that well and all the Intel guys are having no problem with it. So I thought I might as well try Intel and see what happens.

is there any reason you're getting 2GB of ram instead of 1?

nd4spdbh2 · Jan 31, 2007

a E4300 at stock will have NO PROBLEMS running ffdshow and scaling a dvd with ffdshow from default (720x480) to even the highest resolution monitor 2560x1600... my e6600 at stock 2.4ghz can take a dvd and using ffdshow to scale and whatnot can scale the dvd up 5x so 3600x2400 and only use 65% of the cpu. i plan on grabing a E4300 and ECS mobo combo from frys soon... for 150 bucks it will be the much needed cpu power that my HTPC is lacking. My old P4 2.8C is just not cutting it scaling up dvds to 1080p resolution with all the goodies in ffdshow on.

Wicked Klown · Jan 31, 2007

thegreek said:
is there any reason you're getting 2GB of ram instead of 1?

Well for one WoW loves ram as do alot of other games I play. This HTPC also runs as a server, encoder and such.

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