OC Conroe is good?

[nywst]

Why OC? Pay less to achieve better performance.

Since "The E6300 and E6400 can easily overclock to E6700 and Core 2 Extreme X6800 levels", and price diff between E6400 and E6700 now is around $100. If OC E6400 to E6700 level, how much additional power will be needed? And how much is that in long run? Shouldn't it be more than $100? If so, what's the point for OC?

Just wonder anyone has data about this or not.

 

[RichPLS]

You should not duplicate post across forums...

 

[Penguin21512]

You can OC the 6700 aswell you know.

 

[mxyztplk]

"...price diff between E6400 and E6700 now is around $100..."

Wrong.

The price difference is over $300.

For example, in 1000 unit quantities, the price difference is $306.
[=$530-$224]

At retail, the price difference would typically be larger.

For example, at shopblt.com, the price difference is $322.
[=$574-$252]

 

[Omid]

Why overclock and void your warranty? Get what you can afford and stick to that

 

[quantumsheep]

Well, if you have a small PC budget like me overclocking makes perfect sense! My D930 was pretty lacking at stock speeds. But now @ 4.2 ghz it beats pretty much everything out there.

 

[chuckshissle]

Here's more info about overclocking E6300 and E6400 for you buddy.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2802

 

[the_guru]

Why overclock and void your warranty? Get what you can afford and stick to that

Why would overclocking void the warranty? There is no way to find out that a cpu has been overclocked. And the risk of destroying the CPU is very small unless you are trying to break some record.