Intel Pentium E6300 2.80 GHz

[Zíon]

What about overclocking on stock volts ?

 

[mdm-adph]

It depends on the MBO maker and their BIOS support. In theory, AM3 processors can work on almost any chipset going back to nForce 3 found on 754 socket MBO's. I think ASRock actually made one AM2+ compatible with nForce3 and AGP support.

It can work on AM2 boards allright. But not all of them

Aye, I'm hoping so -- I've got an older nForce 4 AM2 board that I'm hoping to upgrade to a Phenom II one day. It's not listed as officially supporting it on Asus' site, but I'm hoping.

 

[newtekie1]

I forgot to ad... being a dual core LGA775 (l)user really sucks right now. If you want a cheaper upgrade of your CPU, something like Pentium E6300 is the only thing reasonable to buy, and like Zubasa mentioned, that's not really an upgrade. On the other hand, if you want a quad CPU like I do... you're screwed with heavily overpriced Intel CPU's.

I would say double the cache and 1GHz higher clock speed would be a nice upgrade over a 2.9GHz E2000 series chip.

If you are looking for a quad upgrade, you have to go used. Get yourself a $150 Q6600 of ebay, overclock it to 3.0GHz and it will tear apart those cheap Athlons.

Now if Intel would actually get off their asses and release the cheap Q7600 like they said, I would be a much happier boy...

 

[Omega]

I would say double the cache and 1GHz higher clock speed would be a nice upgrade over a 2.9GHz E2000 series chip.

Worht $125 (speaking for myself) ? I don't think so...
As for e-bay... its a little bit more complicated for non EU country

 

[newtekie1]

Worht $125 (speaking for myself) ? I don't think so...
As for e-bay... its a little bit more complicated for non EU country

For that price, probably not. Then again, upgrading to an AMD setup, with a new motherboard and possibly new RAM wouldn't really be worth the money either...

And ebay might not work for you, but I was speaking in more of a general tone.

 

[Omega]

Then again, upgrading to an AMD setup, with a new motherboard and possibly new RAM wouldn't really be worth the money either...

Of course not... but in general tone, it sucks to be on lower end LGA775 side looking for upgrade Maybe Intel will have some mercy on us after Westmere processors arrive

 

[vaiopup]

This is just revision of Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8GHz 65nm i have this one running at 2.8GHz on Abit board.

3.34 on Gigabyte

 

[newtekie1]

Of course not... but in general tone, it sucks to be on lower end LGA775 side looking for upgrade Maybe Intel will have some mercy on us after Westmere processors arrive

Trust me, as a current E2180 owner, I know...

Though I just replaced me E6600 with an X3220(Q6600), not a bad upgrade for $150. I just wish the crappy 650i motherboard could actually manage an overclock on it and I didn't have to run it at stock. Oh well, even at stock it puts up better F@H PPD than the E6600 did at 3.6GHz...

As for the E2180, I'm really actually considering dropping an E3200 in there. For $50, it should be good for 4.0GHz easily, the clock speed bump alone would be worth it, not to mention the lower power consumption(as it is another machine that just sits and folds 90% of the time).

Like I said though, I really am hoping Intel will release that Q7600 they talked about. A nice cheap sub-$100 quad for us low end 775 users to upgrade to. I'm thinking they might do it once the new i3/i5 processor come up, to get blow out their Wolfdale stock.

 

[eidairaman1]

Ill admit, in this Day and age, it would be Worthy to grab the fastest Intel C2 Quad you can, or Go with a P55 Setup or low range Core i7 if your the Intel type. 775 is technically dead.