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Codes on CPUs, they important these days?

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As title really.

A while back when i was getting into overclocking and bought my first decent system, A duron 900, there was TBirds out and codes on chips were really important to people for best overclockability.

Well i just bought a c2d E4300. And im wondering if there is any good things to look out for.

My chip has the following on it.

4300 SL9TB MALAY
1.80gz/2M/800/06
Q702A472

Dunno if that means anything, i imagine it was made in malaysia, thats about all i see :D hehe
 
no idea what it means but should do 3 gig on air, my mates does it at 1.375v mine at 1.4 exact same mobo ram everything, so there is some diferences but stick it in an clock away
 
Its going to be going into an Asus P5N-E-Sli
Ram is crucial Ballistix 5300 stuff (2gb)
3ghz? honestly? from 1.8ghz? thats insane

(as u can tell this is all new to me )
 
steve258 said:
3-3.2Ghz seems to be the average clocks IMO, with some lucky ones reaching upto 3.4Ghz orthos stable.
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Is it a major performance boost too ? in games and applications etc?
 
I also have a P5NE SLI with Ballistix 5300 and E4300.

My e4300 is Q645A458 stepping and I cannot get it to boot beyond 2.45GHz. I have tried several bioses (0401, 0602, 0604) 0401 is the newest bios that has unlocked multiplier.

I have tried it at different multipler/FSBs with high and low vcores. I'm not sure if it is some kind of bug or if I've got a duff cpu.
 
Mine is a L649G537, needs closer to 1.6V (1.53-1.55 under load) to make it run at 3.2Ghz benchmark stable, but can't stop it from random lockups & BSODs.
 
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