Core2Duo E6420 Retail Box arrived today

[igor0203]

Nice results! Can you somebody tell me for what is VID ? What does it tell? On my E6400 I have VID 1.3250V. Is that good, bad,...? Sorry for offtopic.

[lawrywild]

VID is the stock voltage that intel assigned for stock clocks. If yours is 1.3250v then if you set Vcore in bios to AUTO then the motherboard will read VID and use Vcore = 1.3250v.

[kniwor]

At 3.4ghz what is the average for dual 32m? Have you compared it? I was thinking whether to keep my E6600 or try a E6420.

umm..I may be off the line, but why would you do that

[theteamaqua]

well i guess 4GHz is a bit too much to ask from an 8x multi CPU ... but many E6600 cant even get 3.6GHz stable ...

[igor0203]

VID is the stock voltage that intel assigned for stock clocks. If yours is 1.3250v then if you set Vcore in bios to AUTO then the motherboard will read VID and use Vcore = 1.3250v.

Thanks!

[awhir]

guys what you think will go best a e6600 or a e6420 in a dfi 965-s with crosair balltix 6400 ?

[QuicKSwitcH]

with how bad the e6600 are clocking right now go with the e6420

[kniwor]

ah! well... yes, if a 6420 clocks better, it makes more sense.

[|2ed |ey]

umm..I may be off the line, but why would you do that

Just want to find out if there is any difference between E6420 and E6600 coz my E6600 is just not good enough.

If that chip really have sooo much OC potential, I may want to make a swop for it.

[ziddey]

Both e6420 and e6600 are based on the conroe core. There aren't any differences in featureset or anything. Just "binning" and different multiplier. What you're going on is the hope that the e6420's you can get a hold of are coming from better batches than the e6600's in supply at the moment. However, once e6600 supplies move to the same batch as the current e6420's, then there shouldn't be all too much difference, and theoretically, the e6600's should be better binned. So saying the e6420 is a better cpu than the e6600 is a complete fallacy.

That said, it looks like these e6420's we're seeing at launch are capable of roughly 3.5-3.6 with roughly 1.45-1.5ish volts. Not the greatest results, but better than a lot of what we've been seeing lately, and well welcomed, especially for the price it's coming at.

[Yoxxy]

That said, it looks like these e6420's we're seeing at launch are capable of roughly 3.5-3.6 with roughly 1.45-1.5ish volts. Not the greatest results, but better than a lot of what we've been seeing lately, and well welcomed, especially for the price it's coming at.

Seems pretty accurate... 3.68 ghz crunching for me @ 1.47v with Zalman 9700. Blew E6600 and E6700 I have had recently away.

Commando is also a pretty good board it seems.

[AMD-me]

My e6420 seems to only do 3.1ghz at 1.5v, what a crock of ####. Well at least my ballistix does DDR1050 @ 4-4-4.

I think the problem may be more related to my board than anything. Even when I drop the multi to 6x and try to go above 425 mhz the board wont even POST.

e6420
Asus P5n-e SLi
Crucial Ballistix PC8000
Scythe Ninja, Dual Instances of Prime95 @56C.

[mascaras]

my friend got one today , here are the results :




E6420
Watercooled
dfi infinity 965-s
Vcore : 1.50v









update







http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=188973

[AMD-me]

This thread makes me sad

Mine was a week 44 G, what are you all getting?

[babalouj]

Please post the steppings you guys are getting.

[VietOZ]

This thread makes me sad

Mine was a week 44 G, what are you all getting?

dont feel sad , cuz I got just about the same result as yours (also 44G), very stable @ 3.2ghz on my P5B-D (Orthos ran over 8 hours) . Anything higher than that will fail orthos after 5 minutes or less. Only thing I like this cpu is it's running very cool, other than that .. very dissappointed.

[mascaras]

the shop where my 2 friends got their E6420 the batch are l651b518


both of them run 3600mhz @ 1.50v 100% stable


and one of them already 3909mhz@1.62v (32c/30c coretemp) Watercooled







this batch run very cold


with a simple WC kit at 3700mhz 1.50v (22c/24c coretemp)



regards

[AMD-me]

dont feel sad , cuz I got just about the same result as yours (also 44G), very stable @ 3.2ghz on my P5B-D (Orthos ran over 8 hours) . Anything higher than that will fail orthos after 5 minutes or less. Only thing I like this cpu is it's running very cool, other than that .. very dissappointed.

[MG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w314/vietoz/6420at3200.jpg[/IG]

Friggin G's

I decided to screw performance with this little beast so I clocked down to 3 GHZ with 1.45 set in the BIOS (1.36v LOAD) and I am passivly cooling with a Scythe Ninja, and two Scythe 800rpm case fans. 63 C load dual Prime 95.

My crucial Ballistix is at DDR1000 @ 4-4-4

[siyah]

genuinly respect for that 6420 that is quite cool and has ne mixes power for time the CPU will change

[sofarfrome]

my friend got one today , here are the results :




E6420
Watercooled
dfi infinity 965-s
Vcore : 1.50v

What stepping is it? Curious because mine is supposed to be here Monday (ordered from CostCentral last Monday, shipped out of Tennessee) and I guess I am hoping it is not a 44G.

[BAR*B*Q]

the shop where my 2 friends got their E6420 the batch are l651b518


both of them run 3600mhz @ 1.50v 100% stable


and one of them already 3909mhz@1.62v (32c/30c coretemp) Watercooled

i have exact same batch here. the cpu does 3400 mhz @ 1,46v only

[sofarfrome]

Very surprized to see FEDEX truck here at 10AM...anyhow, I got one from the L644G465 batch. Right now it is runnig orthos blend at 375x8. Temps are ridiculously low at 40C with 1.4vcore. When I first booted this up BIOS indicated 9C and by the time I got into Windows at 1.25vcore coretemp read 14C.

For the hell of it I tried booting at 450x8 at 1.6vcore, NO DICE!!!

I am going to run at 3GHz orthos blend for a while and try again later.

EDIT:::the absolute best I can do is 3.24GHz at 1.475vcore. Any more voltage does nothing. 1.11GHz improvement is nothing to laugh at but still pales in comparison to my Xeon3060.

[|2ed |ey]

Both e6420 and e6600 are based on the conroe core. There aren't any differences in featureset or anything. Just "binning" and different multiplier. What you're going on is the hope that the e6420's you can get a hold of are coming from better batches than the e6600's in supply at the moment. However, once e6600 supplies move to the same batch as the current e6420's, then there shouldn't be all too much difference, and theoretically, the e6600's should be better binned. So saying the e6420 is a better cpu than the e6600 is a complete fallacy.

That said, it looks like these e6420's we're seeing at launch are capable of roughly 3.5-3.6 with roughly 1.45-1.5ish volts. Not the greatest results, but better than a lot of what we've been seeing lately, and well welcomed, especially for the price it's coming at.

Exactly, that is what i thought that the E6600 should be better binned. But mine not doing too well on water here..

But so far the E6420 looks pretty good..

[Reefa_Madness]

What stepping is it? Curious because mine is supposed to be here Monday (ordered from CostCentral last Monday, shipped out of Tennessee) and I guess I am hoping it is not a 44G.

Can you guys in the US post where you are getting the cpus from (vendor) and from what location/warehouse they are shipping from (like was posted above)?

Any info would be appreciated.

For that matter...no need to limit this to US buyers.

[sofarfrome]

Can you guys in the US post where you are getting the cpus from (vendor) and from what location/warehouse they are shipping from (like was posted above)?

Any info would be appreciated.

For that matter...no need to limit this to US buyers.

Ordered thru Costcentral and shipped from Tennessee USA