e6300 or e7300

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Kinsley

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Hi Everyone...

I'm looking to rebuild one of my older rigs. What I have is the case, hard drive, graphics card (MSI 7600GT) and 2 Gb ddr2-800 Ram. And a 17" LG monitor.

What I need is a new mobo and a processor.
Any recommendations? My budget is around the R1500 mark, As this will be a second rig. It will be mainly used for general office work, internet etc and some gaming. Although mainly older releases. etc to keep the significant other happy.

I have been looking at a pentium dual core e6300 and a core 2 duo e7300. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance for all your assisstance.
 
If you can afford it get the E7300 but make sure your motherboard can handle it, its 45nm-1066 FSB.

It all comes down to your exact performance needs in the end. The E6300 may be able to handle what you require or it may not, so I suggest reading some reviews or asking some guys who own one, so you can check exact performance numbers. This way if the chip is sufficient you might be able to score one for cheap and save some money for something else. In addition if you are ok with overclocking, these E series chips were easy to OC with no extra volts or aftermarket cooling required.

Wrt the E7300, its new tech, runs cooler and more cache. So it will be a better option in every area except for price. Plus some of these chips can you give a healthy OC with stock cooling too!

Personally I would suggest you trawl the 2nd hand market on the local forums classifieds and possibly put up some wanted ads, you might be able to get a good deal from somebody wanting to get rid of their hardware. I've seen E6300's go for R500-R600 and E7300's will prob be around R850 or so. Good luck with the search
 
They both dual core, which means they not slow by any means at all.
They both have decent frequencies, although the e6300 has a slightly better frequency.

However, the E7300 does have more cache, which will overcome the frequency shortfall. The E7300 is known to overclock quite well too, but it seems as though all the 45nm cpu's will do that...

Personally I would go for a nice little quadcore (AMD perhaps?) simply because more and more applications are going to want to make use of more cores, and with intel's i7 cpu's using hyperthreading again, I can see quadcore cpu's being a necessity in a year or two.but it is your money.

If I had to make a choice, i would go for the E7300 simply because of the bigger cache (you could overclock both cpu's to 3.5ghz easily, and if you do, the bigger cache will be far more useful and will let that cpu shine a little more). If the E6300 is significantly cheaper then the E7300 then it would be stupid to get the E7300 as you could put more money to a decent motherboard so that you can overclock (which seems to be the staple diet of any Intel user these days).
 
yeah the Q8200's also a good buy but also keep a look out for Q6600's, I've seen a couple for around that price too
 
they both have their advantages and disadvantages against each other zenbaas. The Q8200 is cooler due to 45nm and also has SSE4.1 (this does seem to be excellent for supported apps) though it has only a 7x multi. More power efficient too. Great performer at the price but not the better chip for OC.

If Kinsley does want to OC this setup then the Q6600 would be the way to go, 65nm allows more volts, higher multi 9x allowing for better clocking on lower end boards. Not to mention it has more cache which I can actually see making a difference in certain apps. My Q6600 sits at 435x8 all day long with no problems and gives me major power in all areas, very hard for any Q8200 to match.

In the end there I think its a coin toss, I've seen many reviews where the Q8200 comes out tops and many where the q6600 comes out tops. But yeah new tech might be more favourable for Kinsleys purposes esp if he doesn't overclock!
 
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