e6600 or e6700 Help me Choose

[updawg]

Hello I have recently started buying stuff for my conroe setup and am wondering how much of a difference I would see between the chips when overclocking.

My watercooling setup includes:
Storm Rev 2 Water Block
Black Ice Pro Gt 240
2x Scythe Ninja Sflex fans
Laing 5 Pump

Is the extra $200 worth it? Could it be comparable to say like an opteron 165/170 where the obvious choice is to buy the 165?

I can afford the extra $200 but should I better spend it somewhere else?

Thanks,
Mike

[Torin]

IMO, if your memory can hit ~450 at decent timings, no reason to get the 6700.

[Absolute_0]

I think 6600 is perfect for water.
6700 is a must if you've got anything better than water though IMO.

[Supertim0r]

preparing for conroe absolute ? :)

[Absolute_0]

You know it :thumbsup:

[SMa]

There are only 2 regular Conroes
The E6600 and the E6700 (E65 & E64 are Allendale, X68 is "not regular"
So E6700 will be highest binned, and I expect a big demand for E6600.
This means 2 things:
If you're lucky you get an "E6700 with x9 multi"
If you get a E6700 it is defenitaly higest binned.

I think the x10 multiplier is worth $200.
Why? Imagine your board doesn't go beyond FSB 400MHz
E6600: 3600MHz & E6700: 4000MHz
In my opinion this is a big difference...

[Supertim0r]

retail or you'll try an ES ?

sorry for the OT

[Absolute_0]

I'm counting on boards going past 400 Mhz, if you spend half a grand on a CPU you're not going to chince on the mobo. And boards should only get better.

I'm aiming for E6700, retail. ESs are like 350$ more than retail, i'd rather wait a month. Retail you get a box, stock heatsink, warranty, receipt, and property of you while ES are technically property of Intel.

[updawg]

So the concensus is purchase the e6600 if I can reach 450 at decent timings?

[derektm]

So the concensus is purchase the e6600 if I can reach 450 at decent timings?

Or if you want higher clocks without having to push your board as hard.

[XS Janus]

I think E67 is a more better candidate for a WC setup just because the heating, noise and fsb will not be a problem in reaching 4ghz.
Just wait for more board tests to See how the whole fsb issue on 965 chipsets pans out, if they will go easily beyond 400 than E66 is enough for starters, and the 200$ premium is not worth it jet.
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[pik-ard v1.1]

gigabyte 965p motherboard: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3745&s=7

most notably the 100 to 600 FSB adjustments...

now, who knows if it'll actually be able to run at 600FSB (2.4GHz bus speed possible? good lord...). but who needs 10x if you can run at 600FSB? even 7x600 is over 4GHz for the E6300...

[SMa]

100 to 600 FSB is just BIOS... this doesn't mean it's reality.

I think with such low multipliers and such high FSB: the higher the multi the better.
The difference between x9 and x10 is huge (especially with 600FSB!)
With Pentium 4 it doesn't matter that lot, because difference between e.g. x16 and x17 isn't that big with a FSB between 200MHz and 300MHz.

[Nightprowler_77]

e6600 or e6700 Help me Choose


I orderd both:toast:

[XS Janus]

Giga already had 600 fsb, but it was only for marketing purposes
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[perkam]

Allow me to make your decision easy for you :)

http://img452.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kinc18ne.jpg

Perkam

[Scarlet Infidel]

The usual questions; What voltage, motherboard, cooling, stability?

Im definately going for the e6600 myself (on water).

[JoeBar]

Propably will feed my wc'ing with a 6600 myself too... :)