Average Overclock for E6400 chips???

[jjwa]

So the E6400 does between 3.2 and 3.6Ghz depending on your luck and other hardware (cooler, ram, motherboard).

I often saw people say the E6600 is not worth the money over the E6400 because the E6400 can overclock to E6600 speeds easily. But... E6600 can overclock as well. What speeds can be expect from E6600, and do you think they would be worth it? (Especially with the new 8800 cards, where CPU speed matters more then before)

[Revv23]

So the E6400 does between 3.2 and 3.6Ghz depending on your luck and other hardware (cooler, ram, motherboard).

I often saw people say the E6600 is not worth the money over the E6400 because the E6400 can overclock to E6600 speeds easily. But... E6600 can overclock as well. What speeds can be expect from E6600, and do you think they would be worth it? (Especially with the new 8800 cards, where CPU speed matters more then before)

E6600 and 6400 will usually top out at same area, at least on air... it depends on the max fsb of your mobo, if you want to have 975x then 6600 is minimum...

but if you have a 965 that can do 500fsb 6400 is a good chip. However 975 and 6600 will still perform better.

Also, if you are going with some exotic cooling like phase change, you may want a 6600 on 965, or 6700 on 975.

[JoeBar]

My 6400 tops @ 3.5ghz with 1.5v on water.

[dicecca112]

3.4 on water, but do to 85F ambients in my dorm I can't go much higher

[Revv23]

3.4 on water, but do to 85F ambients in my dorm I can't go much higher

85f?

Texas? Alabama? Hawaii?

[dicecca112]

Mass. We have no control of the heat in the dorms, so it just blasts. Even in winter, we have fans going and the windows wide open.

[Revv23]

Mass. We have no control of the heat in the dorms, so it just blasts. Even in winter, we have fans going and the windows wide open.

ahh ok, michigan state's dorms are like that, pretty dumb way to run things imo.

[jumanji969]

ahh ok, michigan state's dorms are like that, pretty dumb way to run things imo.

As were michigan's dorms, used to have the window open in the winter.

Nice thread though, been thinking of getting a e6300/6400.

[187(V)URD@]

My E6400(628A) does 3.2ghz on 1.4V but didn't test higher. (P5B deluxe)
But i know my E6300(629A) did 3.5ghz on 1.45-1.5V and that with stock intel cooler on regular P5B.
The P5B vanille clocked higher in fsb then my dlx. But most get 3.2-3.6ghz with 'regular cooling'.

[eXa]

a friend of my runs his 6400 @ 3.2 with DS3 and some 6400ram @ 1:1
only thing he needed to doo was make shure the ram ran 1:1 and upp the voltage 1 notch... stock cooling!(switching to water soon...)

He aint much of an OC`er so ill think hell stay there!

[xlink]

under a scythe infinity i get 3.1GHz 1.25V(1.3 set with crystalCPUID, 1.25 in software)

board doesn't want to go much higher and I'm happy so that's where i leave mine.

mine's week 26

[ziddey]

Mass. We have no control of the heat in the dorms, so it just blasts. Even in winter, we have fans going and the windows wide open.

where in mass are ya

[badboy]

The best my E6400 does is 3.5ghz on Intel BX2. Voltage is maxed at 1.6v which I am doing right now with it idling at 44C. Check sig.