Trade intel CPU's??

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87dtna

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Anybody a non-overclocker out there that owns an E5200, I'd like to trade you my E6300 wolfdale CPU straight up. The E6300 is 2.8ghz and has a 1066 front side bus speed, so thats a 300mhz clock speed upgrade and 266mhz increase in the front side bus for you for the price of shipping the chip ($5-10). Everything else about them is exactly the same....socket lga 775, power usage (65w), cache size(2mb), etc.

If you want to compare, here's the links-

E6300-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091

E5200-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072

If you are worried that I've abused this E6300, don't worry. I've only owned it for a few weeks now, and it's not my everyday rig. In fact it hasn't even been started up within the last week. I've never pushed voltage past 1.50v, it currently runs at 1.425 at 3.4 ghz and never exceeds 60 degrees celsius CORE temp (cpu temp ~10 degrees lower)
 
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The E5200 is a Pentium Dual Core, which is just a rebadged Core 2 Duo with a different clockspeed. I'm guessing he wants to trade because the E5200 can overclock further than the E6300.
 
lovely? said:
y the trade? sorry i dont have one but it would seem like your downgrading?
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The E5200 has a much higher multiplier of 12, the E6300 is only 10. That makes for higher clock speeds with lower front side bus = easier overclocking
 
bomberboysk said:
It has less cache, and is binned lower than a c2d so theres no guarantee it will overclock further.
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It's my motherboard being the cork not the CPU. My motherboard doesn't like such high front side bus. If I got a better motherboard that supported higher FSB this CPU would overclock easily to 3.8ghz or more. With this setup, 3.8ghz is bootable, but not stable. With the E5200, the FSB will be considerably lower at the same clock speed because of the higher multiplier. Therefore, it's cheaper to get an E5200 than it is a new motherboard, especially if I can trade straight up for one.
 
I just wanted to say, if anyone out there has an E5200 and is considering this, I'd be more than happy to remove the E6300 and snap a pic of it with a piece of paper with my username and all that jazz to prove it's mine. No problem.
 
i'm sorry to say, but e5200's have a fairly low fsb wall as well, mine wouldn't boot at anything over 335 fsb with the 12.5 multi, the most stable fsb i ran at was 300 fsb, and that was on my p45 chipset
 
87dtna said:
It's my motherboard being the cork not the CPU. My motherboard doesn't like such high front side bus. If I got a better motherboard that supported higher FSB this CPU would overclock easily to 3.8ghz or more. With this setup, 3.8ghz is bootable, but not stable. With the E5200, the FSB will be considerably lower at the same clock speed because of the higher multiplier. Therefore, it's cheaper to get an E5200 than it is a new motherboard, especially if I can trade straight up for one.
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e5200's hit overclocking walls, because they are lower binned chips for a reason.
 
The higher multiplier still makes it a better overclocker. Right now I have my FSB of my E6300 at 325, and with a multiplier at 10.5 that is 3.4ghz. Even if an E5200 can only get 300 FSB with a 12.5 multiplier thats 3.75ghz. I've seen a lot of reviews of 4.0ghz with an E5200. That only takes 320 FSB with an E5200. It takes 380 FSB to do it with an E6300.
 
87dtna said:
There are 2 E6300's. One is the old one you are referring to and it was like 1.86ghz or something like that. This is the NEW E6300, it's clocked at 2.8ghz stock speed.
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You're incorrect, why would Intel use the same model number for two different processors?

You could be thinking of an E8300 which is 2833MHz, or an E7400 at 2800MHz, but there is no such thing as an E6300 that runs 2800MHz at stock.
 
just a noob said:
do some research before you call others out: e6300 wolfdale
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The way he was saying this he implied C2D not Pentium DC, specificially when he stated

87dtna said:
There are 2 E6300's. One is the old one you are referring to and it was like 1.86ghz or something like that. This is the NEW E6300, it's clocked at 2.8ghz stock speed.
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after someone else stated

PabloTeK said:
It is a C2D, one the the originals!
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Especially considering the PDC E6300 was released just a few months ago to little fanfare, I made a minor mistake by assuming he meant C2D E6300 from his somewhat vague statement, points for jumping on me over it.
 
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I don't understand the confusion, or what your problem is Springy182. The new E6300 PDC is in fact a core 2 duo clocked at 2.8ghz, as I've said from the beginning. All PDC's currently for sale are rebadged core 2 duo's, with slightly less cache. Just because you didn't know there are 2 different E6300's is not my problem.
If you look at benchmarks between the E6300 and E7400 they are nearly identical. Plus, the E7400 does not do XP virtualization in windows 7, the new E6300 does.
 
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