Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 X6800 ?

They'll both be fine, the 6400 stuff at stock will allow an oc up to 3.6ghz with the E6600, 1:1. However the HZ uses the same IC's as the PC2-8000 so you're effectively getting a £350 kit for £175 and theres no reason you cant run the ram at 3:5 for example.
 
Same ram as what i have G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) to had a chance to test it out yet.
This motherboard will work out of the box with no bios updates needed,so far so good very stable and no problems so far,got this till the DFI NV board comes out as im used to working on the DFI cannot work this dam giga bios for love nor money :)
 
and theres no reason you cant run the ram at 3:5 for example.
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I think the DQ3 has the ratio locked, it can only do 1:1 so you really need the HZ if you plan to dump a 6300 in the board and crank up the fsb really high.
 
Thanks guys. If you crank the FSB too high will it mess up other devices like a sound card? I'm not sure what settings the E6600 will use by default and I may not need to crank it too high if I'm using a standard HSF, I don't do all that water cooling hardcore stuff!
 
The Old Man said:
He says he is using an Allendale, don't what that is but they seem impressed with the board in any case. I don't imagine I'll need a 485Mhz FSB as I only want to overclock on air and am hoping to see how people overclock their E6600's on air when they become available so I can use the same settings.
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The Allendale are the E6200, E6300 and E6400. All with 2MB of L2 Cache.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors

The Conroe's E6600, E6700 and X6800 have 4MB of L2 cache.

Reading the XS thread, it looks like the DS3 is good for high FSB with lower multipliers 6/7/8, like the Allendales. The retail E6600 has a locked multi of 9 and the DS3 seems to be hitting an FSB wall <400MHz with higher multi's. The E6600's you've seen on the DS3 have been ES (Engineering Samples) versions with unlocked multi's
 
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fornowagain said:
Reading the XS thread, it looks like the DS3 is good for high FSB with lower multipliers 6/7/8, like the Allendales. The retail E6600 has a locked multi of 9 and the DS3 seems to be hitting an FSB wall <400MHz with higher multi's. The E6600's you've seen on the DS3 have been ES (Engineering Samples) versions with unlocked multi's
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I would imagine this is a bios issue. I cant see any reason why there should be any differences between multipliers. Unless Intel have a freq lock in place
 
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The Allendale are the E6200, E6300 and E6400. All with 2MB of L2 Cache.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors

The Conroe's E6600, E6700 and X6800 have 4MB of L2 cache.

Reading the XS thread, it looks like the DS3 is good for high FSB with lower multipliers 6/7/8, like the Allendales. The retail E6600 has a locked multi of 9 and the DS3 seems to be hitting an FSB wall <400MHz with higher multi's. The E6600's you've seen on the DS3 have been ES (Engineering Samples) versions with unlocked multi's
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Thanks for the info and clarification. Much apppreciated.
I'm wondering if I should go for a slower chip than the E6600 but I'm not sure. I want it for games and to overclock it best I can on standard HSF.

What sort of speeds are people expecting to get from the E6600 with this clock multiplier of x9? With an FSB of 400 x 9 = 3600Mhz? Would it be stable at this and would it go anymore on a normal supplied HSF? OR should I replace the HSF with a different sensible cooler?
 
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The Old Man said:
What sort of speeds are people expecting to get from the E6600 with this clock multiplier of x9? With an FSB of 400 x 9 = 3600Mhz? Would it be stable at this and would it go anymore on a normal supplied HSF? OR should I replace the HSF with a different sensible cooler?
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No retail E6600's have been seen yet. I'm hope they clock like the step 5's ES, but it's too soon to tell. 3.6GHz is a nice round number. As for stable, that will depend on the motherboard, chip, memory, psu,,,, so on. And the standard cooler is a POS, dump it. The conroes run HOT with more core volts and FSB. The Tuniq 120 is favourite on XS and I can recommend it, I have one and its very good, but huge.
 
Try updating to the latest one, as the 1st bios has a limited number of features and can't hit as high an FSB. CTRL+F1 to access the ocing features?..
 
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