Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
Overclocking? I don't see him doing all that much with cooling solutions, so I'm not sure overclocking is a concern for him. In any event, the E6300 will overclock better on stock cooling than the 3800+ does. ...and at stock, as far as I know the E6300 will take pretty much ALL the benchmarks. Now, if our OP is perhaps considering hooking up the Phase Change system that he forgot to tell us he has laying around to the CPU, then maybe I would suggest the 3800+, but for stock cooling... the Core 2 Duos are still running the show. Even the measly 6300.