E6300 Help

[snake_pliskin]

Will the E6300 be able to suit my gaming needs I have a 7900GS to go along with it. I was wondering since its only a 1.86 and games that require lets says like 2.0 and recommend 3.0 like oblivion. Well will I be able to play this. Is there any 939 socket cpu that is better than the E6300? Please let me know soon as possible because i wanna upgrade from my 3.4 Prescott 650

 

[evilr00t]

1. MHz is not as important as the architecture.
2. The E6300 has the most efficient architecture of all modern x86 CPUs.
The E6300 will be able to bottleneck a 7900GS easily in Oblivion.

The X2 4600+ and higher are faster than the E6300. But they aren't as overclockable; if you do get a E6300, you ought to overclock it to at least 2.4 GHz.

 

[snake_pliskin]

so by this I take it. This E6300 with be far superior to my 650 Prescott even if I didnt overclock it? Because there is only one board out there "that i can find that supports ddr and ddr2 and c2d" because im poor and going to hold on to my ddr justa little longer. Even yet my point is this mobo doesnt overclock very well from what ive read so my question is. Let says the e6300 was stock ghz and my 650 3.4 was stock ghz. Would the e6300 still be far superior?

 

[NotAPimecone]

I found some benchmarks on Anandtech that were done with Winstone 2004, supposedly mostly single-threaded benchmarks (Page 12).

They included lots of CPU's including a E6300 and a Pentium 965.

 

[snake_pliskin]

well it looks like to me that even the E6300 1.86 blows away every intel processor prior to the C2D besides maybe the EE 965. I was just wanting some suggestion and it seems like I would be happy with the E6300 over me Prescott 650 so thanx any other comments or suggestion let me hear them.

 

[evilr00t]

Let says the e6300 was stock ghz and my 650 3.4 was stock ghz. Would the e6300 still be far superior?

In two words: Hell yes

The ASRock board doesn't OC well, but it'll more than likely get you to 2.2GHz.

 

[snake_pliskin]

What asrock board? The only board i found that supported ddr and C2D was a ECS. If there a Asrock that does this where is thanx man?

 

[evilr00t]

ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

 

[snake_pliskin]

It says this "CPU Type Pentium D/Pentium 4 HT/Celeron D"
Does it still support C2D anyway? I just wanna be sure? It would be great if I still had AGP. Damn..... kNow of any other boards?

 

[evilr00t]

Read a couple words further.
http://www.asrock.com/product/775Dual-VSTA.htm
"LGA 775 for Intel® Core™ 2 Duo/ Pentium® XE / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 / Celeron® D, supporting Conroe processors"

 

[snake_pliskin]

Ok well on newegg all the people say it's only 4x wouldnt that slow me down quite a bit? I just dont wanna low performance when I'm supposed to be upgrading. You know what I mean? I know what your thinking well you should just get some more money you poor bastard. well your prolly right but Im anxious. What do you think about this board?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813135023

 

[evilr00t]

4x PCI-E shouldn't harm practical performance. The ASRock board supports AGP and PCIe, and it will do a bit of overclocking. I don't know anything about the ECS board though.

 

[snake_pliskin]

Hmm I will have to do some thinking about this thanx for the help though and if anyone else knows anything about this ecs please let me know and by the way nice stats evilroot