Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc

Originally Posted by keithwalton

I'd avoid it, It has the same C19 northbridge as the 590i which caps out at 325mhz, you can get much higher fsb's out of the intel chips and the 680i, the AMD.ATI RD600 chipset should arive sometime soon though it's abit of a stillborn as only asus and dfi are going to make a board based on it and its the last chipset to be built by ati for intel cpu's for obvious reasons.

Conroe's / Allendales do like to give you free speed due to how cold they run. You should be able to get 3.5GHz out of that E6600 on air cooling no sweat with a good mobo.

Oh and welcome to the C2D owners club CRC-3rr0r. They really are blindingly quick chips!

Have you had any luck with xp64 on an Intel based board though? ive tried with various chipsets with no real luck at all thats why I wanted to try an Nforce board

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Qtec are bad the 12 volt 4 pin dont last and I had one go pop on a machine on test the other day

mind you Crc yours seems to have lasted

Thats interesting as I've never had to use the 12v 4pin connector : Was wondering why the mobo wouldn't post.

Once attached things started to work again.

I guess I should test the voltages once I get windoze on there : hwinfo ? is it or aida ?

- thanks for the warm welcome Zingle

you should have read the manual first dude lol lol the 4 pin powers the cpu

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Have you had any luck with xp64 on an Intel based board though? ive tried with various chipsets with no real luck at all thats why I wanted to try an Nforce board

After u mentioned it I read a bit about 64bit processing and felt that it's still not ready for prime time.

If anything I would trust winxp 64bit over linux distros that claim to be 64bit.

The main trouble is that developers are too lazy to redevelop for the 64bit platform they tend to just shoove things out of the door by recompiling 32 bit -> 64bit with the effect that it gives the same and in most case worse performance than the orginal 32bit app.

Its a shame really as ultimately 64bit is the future.

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

thats not a Qtec power supply is it?

I was gonna ask that!

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by keithwalton

I'd avoid it, It has the same C19 northbridge as the 590i which caps out at 325mhz, you can get much higher fsb's out of the intel chips and the 680i, the AMD.ATI RD600 chipset should arive sometime soon though it's abit of a stillborn as only asus and dfi are going to make a board based on it and its the last chipset to be built by ati for intel cpu's for obvious reasons.

Conroe's / Allendales do like to give you free speed due to how cold they run. You should be able to get 3.5GHz out of that E6600 on air cooling no sweat with a good mobo.

Oh and welcome to the C2D owners club CrC-3rr0r. They really are blindingly quick chips!

Indeed Indeed.

Thanks for the welcome feels good already pity I'm currently neglecting my C2D - I guess I'm back on the o.c. warpath - new gear to follow - have been reading up and 2b honest the E6400 was not that a bad choice.

Came across this rig : One for Zingle to drool over

http://vr-zone.com/?i=4215&s=19

Over clockers have that board I was looking at that just yesterday
Alienware keep sending me mailshots with the quad and twin 8800's the gits lol

[The Jackal]

Might look at popping the new E4300 in this board and overclock it. The BORED has such limited o/c potential. My recent sugo build got an E6300 faster on a smaller platform than I did with an E6400 on this dualvsta board.

New E4300 £110 pre order @ komplett ? : http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=330167

Some ppl are suggesting that the E4300 will overclock well in this board but its early days yet wait a few weeks and let the nerds try it out first.

[bhoywonder1967]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

Might look at popping the new E4300 in this board and overclock it. The BORED has such limited o/c potential. My recent sugo build got an E6300 faster on a smaller platform than I did with an E6400 on this dualvsta board.

New E4300 £110 pre order @ komplett ? : http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=330167

Some ppl are suggesting that the E4300 will overclock well in this board but its early days yet wait a few weeks and let the nerds try it out first.

Good review of the E4300 at X-bit labs, they managed to get it o/c'd to 3.42 GHZ without much trouble.

I might consider getting one if my bonus comes through.

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

Indeed Indeed.

Thanks for the welcome feels good already pity I'm currently neglecting my C2D - I guess I'm back on the o.c. warpath - new gear to follow - have been reading up and 2b honest the E6400 was not that a bad choice.

Came across this rig : One for Zingle to drool over

http://vr-zone.com/?i=4215&s=19

You get what you pay for i suppose, i was looking for a half-way house between a brand new system and legacy components, this board fitted the bill perfectly.

It will get dumped eventually, but it now allows me to get DDR2, then PCI-E when i can afford it rather than all of it at once.

It was only 34 quid too... Hardly a major loss, but it will end up on Ebay someday.

[Uncle Peter]

Glad I found this thread - I've been thinking about investing in one of these boards so it's good to hear that the feedback is positive so I'll probably pop out tomorrow and invest in one. Not sure whether or not to be tight fisted and get the E6300 or go for the E6600.

whats wrong with the 6400

[The Jackal]

Things change quickly in the world of IT. A lot of the main overclocking boards have come down in price.

And we now have the E4300 which if you pop into this board will get you near to 2.7ghz which will be faster than my E6400 @ 2.3

So E4300 is your best bet if you're going with this board.

Alternatively do things properly and you could get a simple E6300 to 3.5ghz or 3.2ghz for the non experienced clocker....
P5n-e Sli or DS3 mobo : £70 - £80
E6300 : £120 ish
DDR2(at least 900Mhz stuff) Memory : £150 (yes its the most expensive but the most important if your going to overclock)

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Oh forgot yeh : You'll need a PCI-express graphics card too

Oh well best bang per buck : E4300 + the DualVSTA

Im guessing the 4300 is the faulty cpu that wont run at 1066 but is forced to run at 800 ? This will be the same as the D805 the lower fsb means a higher multiplier however there is no garrentee this cpu will reach anywhere near the 1066 if your unlucky it could fail early its pot luck. Id risk it in a oc board but I have a lot of machines go through my hands id move it on if it didnt oc well

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Im guessing the 4300 is the faulty cpu that wont run at 1066 but is forced to run at 800 ? This will be the same as the D805 the lower fsb means a higher multiplier however there is no garrentee this cpu will reach anywhere near the 1066 if your unlucky it could fail at 880 say giviong you only a 20 mhz rise which will not be enough its pot luck. Id risk it in a oc board but I have a lot of machines go through my hands id move it on if it didnt oc well

E4300 is a real Alendale and starts the real series check around on the forums. Has 2meg cache specifically made for it and not like the failed caches on the E6300 and E6400.

And again I have one running at 290 in this board = 2.6ghz and so have a few others.

Comparative overclocking tests between the E6300 and E4300 in DS3 / P5n-e setups have been made over the past week with the E4300 holding its ground but for me personally I'd go E6300 for high end clocking.