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CPU Dilemma

Grimley

Grimley

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Right, I've got a Q6600 & an E8400 to hand, Currently using the Q6600, E8400 is sitting up in the loft on a spare board.

I'm of the opinion that the Q6600 is overkill for what I'm using my Main PC for at the moment (Internet, office stuff, web editing, play Far Cry & HL2 occasionally) I would like to do is put the E8400 back in & overclock my system.

The thing is, the E8400 is the 1st generation stepping with the stuck temp sensor (on stock setting it says 65/66c on idle & load) so I've no idea what its real temps are.

So what do you think I should do? Keep the E8400 or sell both & get something else.

I'm not planning on an major upgrade for at least another year, probably when Westmere arrives.

Thanks.
 
That was my thinking. I've got a Scythe Mine' doing cooling duties currently so I'll probably get a prolimatech (Me, PC's & water don't mix)

Board is a P35-DS4, so is 4gig stable a possiblity on air cooling?
 
If I can get the overclock up to 3.6 stable I'll be happy with that with the E8400, 3gig with the Q6600. :cool:
 
Right - sorted the cooling - meghalem push/pull

Upped the vcore to 1.3
Upped the FSB to 400
Got the ram on 1:1

Testing it now on prime 95, seems to be OK so far after 15mins

Temps? realtemp 67
CPUID hardware monitor is reading 2 temps though CPU = 50 E8400 67 per core

Which ones right?
 
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