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Ahven   01-09-2007 at 03:37:26 AM

My question is, how much would I have to OC E6300 so it wouldn't create any kind of bottleneck in games with 8800 gts? I have never OCed before so I'm thinkinbg if I should buy 6300, 6400 and OC or just buy 6600 and use it out of the box untill I need the extra clock somewhere.

So basically what CPU should I buy out of those three? I'm gonna purchase 2gb Corsair 6400 with 5-5-5-5-12 latencies if that affects the choice somehow.

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NotAPimecone   01-09-2007 at 04:01:11 AM
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how much would I have to OC E6300 so it wouldn't create any kind of bottleneck in games with 8800 gts?


I would say not at all.

In the "8800 Needs the Fastest CPU" article, the benchmark results show that the CPU is a bottleneck only when the GPU is stressed as little as possible, making the CPU - any CPU - the limiting factor. Just some are more limited than others.

I hesitate to call it bottlenecking, because at that point we are usually talking about more FPS than your monitor can display.

When the resolutions and effects are cranked up, the GPU becomes the limiting factor. Any modern CPU should be fine, unless you're trying to set a lo-res, no AF/AA framerate world record.

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Ahven   01-09-2007 at 04:06:31 AM
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unless you're trying to set a lo-res, no AF/AA framerate world record.



Damn that was just the thing I was going for!

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Bl4d3   01-10-2007 at 04:01:48 AM
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yea im curious to know as well:

i want to buy a 6300 with a high end water cooling system and oc it to past the 6800 standards. will the gameplay be effected at all?

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cudaboy   01-10-2007 at 06:10:41 AM
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My 6300 and GTS definetly liked overclocking. My 06mark score jumed from 7762 at 1.87ghz to 10337 at 2.98 ghz....saw about 15-20% fps increase at 1280x1024 with the stepped up 6300. this is with the gts at 640/960 for all tests. . Running at 400fsb completly stable...my 533mhz valuram also sped up to 850mhz with no problems......wouldn't go no higher though.....

It really depends what resolution your monitor is native to or what you like to play at.....I play at 1680x1050 so the cpu speed is not as important...but I can tell a huge difference in just tooling around windows with the cpu overclock....

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Bl4d3   01-11-2007 at 12:59:06 AM
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what would happen if i used water cooling on a 6300 and used the same setup?

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cudaboy   01-11-2007 at 05:38:58 AM
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Think about it this way...

the 6300 has to wick up the fsb to be comparable in clock sppeds with higher multiplyer chips. The heat is generated more from raw processing power than an increase of fsb...the higher clock chips will get hotter faster imo by raising fsb.....

Also fsb is very limited by motherboard and ram used....

the 6300 has to be the best overclocker due to this...now some extreme cooling still will be necessary at very high fsb (probably over 475 with this chip due to increase of core voltages to allow the fsb increase....


Hope this makes since to ya...I ain't no expert..I just play one on tv.

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locky28   01-11-2007 at 06:12:04 AM
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what would happen if i used water cooling on a 6300 and used the same setup?



You would have the same system with water in it :P.

Ahven said that his RAM wouldn't go any further so if you're going to watercool, get better quality parts.

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Bl4d3   01-11-2007 at 11:19:04 PM
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so anybody else have any input on this?

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tonyr68a   03-10-2009 at 11:59:11 PM
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I have an e6300 and a 8800 gts 512 and it really seems like its being bottleknecked because i can only get around 10 fps in quantom of solace and 25 max in call of duty 4. any input on what to do?

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