Don't forget that the 6600 and 6700 in the test are ES cpu's. Huge difference. Another thing as well. Anand talks about budget. You need pretty expensive ram for 510+ fsb as dividers doesn't work very well on the P5B. No downclocking dividers even available, only upclocking which doesn't even work at the moment. You need ram that does DDR1000+ in 1:1.
In the end, you'll get as much performance out of a 6600, 975 board and cheaper ram. All for the same money or at least, very close to it.
I have a retail 6600 that does 430 fsb which is pretty high being a retail chip with 4mb cache.
Thrax, P5B deluxe if you have a couple of harddrives i would say. The vanilla P5B only have 4 that's useable and only one IDE that sucks donkey. Get a SATA burner is my advice. P5B (if you can live with 4 ports for hdds and dvd), 6300 and DDR1000 ram is my advice. Couple that with the new x1900GT and you have a rocking setup for pretty low money.
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In the end, you'll get as much performance out of a 6600, 975 board and cheaper ram. All for the same money or at least, very close to it.
I have a retail 6600 that does 430 fsb which is pretty high being a retail chip with 4mb cache.