1333Mhz CPU's

[matt631]

With all the new mobo boards now coming out and supporting 1333mhz front side bus does anyone know when the soonest CPU (which is not overclocked ) is going to be released that will be able to use such a board to its full potential

 

[Biffa]

Q3 2007 is the roadmap for desktop processors at that FSB, the new Xeons are already out at that speed however.

 

[matt631]

That’s a fair old wait then... Can you run the xeons singly for a desktop PC and would there be any advantages of this say over an X6800 Conroe... Sorry for all the questions just want to know what im getting myself into before I make my next big purchase and there’s so much info out there it gets confusing

Thanks

 

[Darg]

Well right now that 1333FSB will mean much more stable overclocks on the conroe cpus. At stock they're at 1066 but when overclocked they will reach 1333 quite quickly. That only requires a 66.6 OC on the stock FSB of 266. Most people that have their conroes oc'ed on a decent board have well more then a 333.33 FSB so their actual quad pumped bus would be over 1333 already. The DS3/4 and Asus P5 boards all seem to handle this perfectly fine. I'm assuming however that the new 1333FSB boards will be able to handle even further overclocking. I'm interested in seeing whether people get a significant increase on the oc's with the new boards.

EDIT: From what I've heard the Xeons are designed to be used on servers or workstation PCs and are not aimed at gamers. The conroes would probably beat the pants off them in gaming benchmarks.

 

[Roughneck]

Well right now that 1333FSB will mean much more stable overclocks on the conroe cpus. At stock they're at 1066 but when overclocked they will reach 1333 quite quickly. That only requires a 66.6 OC on the stock FSB of 266. Most people that have their conroes oc'ed on a decent board have well more then a 333.33 FSB so their actual quad pumped bus would be over 1333 already. The DS3/4 and Asus P5 boards all seem to handle this perfectly fine. I'm assuming however that the new 1333FSB boards will be able to handle even further overclocking. I'm interested in seeing whether people get a significant increase on the oc's with the new boards.

EDIT: From what I've heard the Xeons are designed to be used on servers or workstation PCs and are not aimed at gamers. The conroes would probably beat the pants off them in gaming benchmarks.

yep got my Conroe 6600 running @ 333fsb with no extra voltages

 

[mrthingyx]

That’s a fair old wait then... Can you run the xeons singly for a desktop PC and would there be any advantages of this say over an X6800 Conroe... Sorry for all the questions just want to know what im getting myself into before I make my next big purchase and there’s so much info out there it gets confusing

Thanks

The new Xeons (5000 series) all require a very particular type of registered memory (can't remember the abbreviation, but what gives...?) which deals a massive latency penalty to what could otherwise be pretty impressive performance due to the faster FSB. As such, an X6800 Conroe does indeed beat the pants off the fastest Xeon in all gaming tests and quite a few of the workstation-class ones, too.

 

[Elric]

You're referring to FB-Dimm's, as in Fully buffered and also the XEON's are Socket 771 not 775.

 

[Darg]

yep got my Conroe 6600 running @ 333fsb with no extra voltages

That's pretty nice but try pushing it over 3Ghz