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Originally Posted by ntl customer
I was thinking of getting that board and a Prescott processor. Now that I've heard of the compatability problems with the BIOS and motherboard out of the box I'm slightly put off by the idea of getting a Prescott. Plus all the issues with it consuming more juice, running hotter and slower in some cases.
No wonder all Northwood processors are out of stock everywhere!
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Whoa! Steady there
I actually think Prescott is the better processor, if it's configured [read: overclocked and cooled] properly. Check out my 3DMark05 CPU score and see for yourself
Had no problems either, except I couldn't boot into Windows with the default BIOS. Lucky for me, I downloaded the latest BIOS before I built the new system. This thing overclocks like a charm too, 3.6GHz on air cooling with a Zalman copper heatsink and 8cm Vantec Tornado fan.