Dual core to quad = problems?

Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:43

Hi, I have a E4300 but literally just purchased a Q6600 from OCUK (hopefully delivered soon!).

I am running Vista 64 and XP 32 (dual boot). Anything I need to do in either for the CPU to be detected / windows to be optimized? I think it should just auto detect everything right?

modo77 · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:45

It will work without having to do anything (well apart from plugging it into the mb

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Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:47

modo77 said:
It will work without having to do anything (well apart from plugging it into the mb )

Excellent. Kind of figured that but best to check I thought.

I have to plug it in though. DAMN CPU makers. They should invent a CPU where it does it all itself

Seriously though, looking forward to it. Not looking forward to finding the overclocking sweet spot though lol.

bledd · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:06

first thing to do, is set fsb to 333, and the mem divider to 2.4 (if you have 6400 ram)

that's a 3ghz clock then, most do it totally stable with no voltage changes

Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:13

I have the 8000 ram (the reaper) so hopefully I will get a reasonable overclock from it

Thanks for the help mate

bledd · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:18

you can change the dividers a lot, mine works out as 3.6 at 400, yet had the time to fiddle though,

enjoy the chip

Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:19

bledd. said:
you can change the dividers a lot, mine works out as 3.6 at 400, yet had the time to fiddle though,

enjoy the chip

Yes - yes I will

Was really tempted for a GPU upgrade instead - but I figure that with the new cards coming soon, its kind of pointless