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I just got a Week 31A E6600. Good or Bad?

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mawsoccer

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Is this good or bad for OCing?

Regardless of what gets posted here, I plan to do further research, but it'd be nice if I had someone else who know about them give me some opinion about it.
 
I was unaware that there were "bad" weeks with these Intel chips. To my understanding they should all clock about the same other than the few that are just golden chips, of course.
 
meionm's E6400 is 4Ghz 32M SPI stable :eek: , That might have something to do with him thinking his E6600 wasn't all that good.
 
greenmaji said:
meionm's E6400 is 4Ghz 32M SPI stable :eek: , That might have something to do with him thinking his E6600 wasn't all that good.
Haha, well that would explain it. Unless he had some other sort of problems that we dont know about.

Anway, try overclocking and see what kind of results you get. You never know, maybe you have a special chip. :p
 
the E6600 has 4MB of cache vs the 2MB on the E6400 and the E6300... to some programs it'll run up to 10pct faster with the same clock speed... but that's not much...but there's rumor that new programs will get redesign to capitalized on the extra cache... at any rate.. assume that the E6600 hit 3.5ghz (normally).. 10pct = 350mhz so the E6400 will need about 3.85 to match... and what u really avoid with the E6600 is heat.. less clock = less heat.
 
mawsoccer said:
Is this good or bad for OCing?

Regardless of what gets posted here, I plan to do further research, but it'd be nice if I had someone else who know about them give me some opinion about it.


mines 30A and its sexy I hope yours is as good an oc'er :cool:
 
The one I had didn't run prime stable at 3ghz with 1.35v. It maxed out at 3150mhz. 10mhz higher than 3150mhz and it would fail dual prime regardless of voltage. Anything above 410fsb regardless of multi and would not post.

Though the other l631 that i saw at xtremeforums were much better clockers.
 
meionm said:
The one I had didn't run prime stable at 3ghz with 1.35v. It maxed out at 3150mhz. 10mhz higher than 3150mhz and it would fail dual prime regardless of voltage. Anything above 410fsb regardless of multi and would not post.
Hm.. that's really strange. What kind of motherboard were you running?
 
Is anybody going to respond? It would be nice to see why meionm's processor that is the same week as mine was sooo bad.
 
mawsoccer said:
Is anybody going to respond? It would be nice to see why meionm's processor that is the same week as mine was sooo bad.
its the luck of the draw week to week for the cpu's. there is allways going to be duds within every week. the good ocing cpus with low vids as found by coretemp/tat are ones with vid in the 1.2xx range. with decent ones being 1.3-1.325v, like my e6400 doing 3ghz with 1.33v*actuall*.
 
warlock110 said:
the E6600 has 4MB of cache vs the 2MB on the E6400 and the E6300... to some programs it'll run up to 10pct faster with the same clock speed... but that's not much...but there's rumor that new programs will get redesign to capitalized on the extra cache... at any rate.. assume that the E6600 hit 3.5ghz (normally).. 10pct = 350mhz so the E6400 will need about 3.85 to match... and what u really avoid with the E6600 is heat.. less clock = less heat.

Might I ask where you get this information from?

I'm seeing very very little difference. Only time I'm seeing difference currently is SuperPI results, other then that its basically the same.

As for less clocks = less heat thats correct but also the E6400 also isn't powering 2mb of extra cache.
 
Mine is Week 31 A.

so far it does 3.0Ghz at stock (1.29V in bios, 1.3V in nTune) with no problem, havent pushed it higher yet.
 
deathman20 said:
Might I ask where you get this information from?

I'm seeing very very little difference. Only time I'm seeing difference currently is SuperPI results, other then that its basically the same.

As for less clocks = less heat thats correct but also the E6400 also isn't powering 2mb of extra cache.

QFT, most people only buy the higher models for the higher multiplier..... and a bigger e-wiener .
 
TheCheat said:
QFT, most people only buy the higher models for the higher multiplier..... and a bigger e-wiener .

I know that but i was trying to figure out where he was getting his info from.
 
TheCheat said:
QFT, most people only buy the higher models for the higher multiplier..... and a bigger e-wiener .

Dude, you can have as big an e-weiner as you want... it's the age of teh internets!


~ Gos
 
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