Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > E6750 - possible?

E6750 - possible?

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - E6750 - possible?

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!

Ask the community Add a reply

Bottom Search this thread

Hi i have an ASUS P5B DELUXE WIFI/AP Motherboard (P965). I was wondering if i could run an E6750 at FSB1333 on it? Since the E6750 is at 2.66Ghz I want to overclock it to 3.2Ghz 24/7. What i will i need to do to achieve this? Or should i get a Q6600 some 22 July? Thanks in advance. ^_^

Add a reply

There shouldn't be any problems. 3.2GHz should be a walk in the park, these new 1333FSB chips use the new G0 stepping are known to get close to 4GHz on air cooling!

As for an E6750 vs Q6600, that is a tough one. $183 vs $266, the E6750 will overclock higher but the Q6600 will run highly multithreaded tasks like video encoding better.

It all depends on you do with your PC.

Reply to epsilon84

Thanks so much for your reply. Really helps

Reply to adelsmud

the Asus P5B (P965) only supports up to 1066 FSB, so won't support the E6750

The reviews I've seen show the 1333 being only marginally (e.g. 1%) quicker for the same CPU frequency so it's not worth worrying about.
When you say "will overclock higher" in terms of CPU freq then yes, but the Q6600 at 3Ghz will still wipe the floor with the E6750 @ 3.9ghz

Reply to andybird123

Quote :

the Asus P5B (P965) only supports up to 1066 FSB, so won't support the E6750

It can do 1333Mhz, so it's just a bios update issue. People have overclocked their cpu @ 333 FSB for ages with a P5B...

Reply to bigblack

Quote :

the Asus P5B (P965) only supports up to 1066 FSB, so won't support the E6750

It can do 1333Mhz, so it's just a bios update issue. People have overclocked their cpu @ 333 FSB for ages with a P5B...

Fair enough, I just went by the Asus website list of supported CPU's. Has anyone tried it yet?
Personally I don't think I'd risk buying a "non-supported" CPU just to see if it works. Particularly when said CPU is only a percent or so quicker than one that is currently available and listed as supported (the E6700).

But then if I were buying an intel dual core right now I'd just get an E6300 and overclock to 3.5Ghz like I did for my mate a few months ago.

Reply to andybird123

Well then my guess is yes it will work because Gigabyte motherboards have claimed suppors for 1333mhz fsb's on their 965 chipsets. Asus is using the same ones, regardless of whether it doesn't officially support all that will happen is when you pop it in is it will run at 266mhz fsb at its stock multiplier. It will be underclocked but since both your motherboard is more than capable of 333mhz fsb a simple bios increase in fsb will fix that for you. Also since your overclock to 3.2Ghz or so anyway that stock speed info is irrelevant.

Lastly even though the E6750 are looking to great overclockers if you don't think your going to try and push it past 3.2Ghz just get a E6700, it will easily hit 3.2Ghz but you won't have to wait to buy it and it will cost less.

Also to whoever said that a 3.9Ghz E6750 would get the floor wiped by a Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz is on crack. There are so few programs that can utilize four cores than the E6750 would dominate all programs. Even for programs that would utilize four cores the clockspeed advantage would almost negate the benefit of the additional 2 cores.

Reply to IcY18

Quote :

NO it will not wipe the floor, show me bench marks on this?

Reply to wrath64

Quote :

Also to whoever said that a 3.9Ghz E6750 would get the floor wiped by a Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz is on crack. There are so few programs that can utilize four cores than the E6750 would dominate all programs. Even for programs that would utilize four cores the clockspeed advantage would almost negate the benefit of the additional 2 cores.

I have to agree G0 steppings with that high mhz really kicks ass but 2 more cores will be useful in the future like alan wake http://www.gametrailers.com/player [...] 15409.html all this is real-time, i just wanna see a Q6600 with those steppings :b that could be fun.

Reply to bullaRh

Quote :

NO it will not wipe the floor, show me bench marks on this?

this set of benchmarks shows a STOCK Q6600 beating a E6750 @ 3.64ghz which was all they could get from their's, so even with 2-300 more mhz out of the E67, you've got over 600mhz you can add to the Q as well

http://techreport.com/reviews/2007 [...] ex.x?pg=14

at worst the Q6600 is no faster than an E67, at best it's 50% faster (actually more if you look at the Valve Source particle benchmarks)

code is either designed for multi-core, if it's not then there's no point even having a dual core let alone a quad, all software is becoming multi core aware... the OP didn't specify what he wants it for, but yeah, a Q6600 is significantly faster in terms of raw processing power, but it depends what you're using it for.
If you're talking primarily gaming, then I'm still running a single core and I get 80+FPS in all games released to date, so in that respect even a dual core is pointless. I'll go dual core when games require it, but that wasn't what the OP asked. Games are far more GPU dependent than CPU so for gaming you only need a CPU that's "fast enough", and the GPU does all the real work / is the bottleneck on faster framerates.

Also, the G0 Q6600 will be out in a couple of weeks and that will allow higher clock speeds as well, further boosting it's performance.

Reply to andybird123

Well, my Asus P5B states on the box that ''it can support the upcoming 1333 FSP processors''. I bought it 2 months ago, so it could be an updated version that can support the new processors or something.

Reply to realzeus

Quote :

Also, the G0 Q6600 will be out in a couple of weeks and that will allow higher clock speeds as well, further boosting it's performance.

Where did you see that?

Reply to someguyperson

Quote :

Also, the G0 Q6600 will be out in a couple of weeks and that will allow higher clock speeds as well, further boosting it's performance.

Where did you see that?

You know these Fourmz are good for It

Reply to IcY18

Ask the community Add a reply

Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > E6750 - possible?

Go to:

Help |
Forum rules

There are 934 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Page generated in 0.362 seconds

Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel

Focus On

E6750 - possible?

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - E6750 - possible?

Please mind