Going from AMD to Core2?

-Mike-

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Hi guys,

Can you explain all this strap stuff to me thats required in the core2 overclocking? Do any of you have any useful links to give me info on this? My friends just got a core2 e6600 and we're looking for the best way to overclock it.

Motherboard suggestions are welcomed also :)

Thank you :D
 
-Mike- said:
Hi guys,

Can you explain all this strap stuff to me thats required in the core2 overclocking? Do any of you have any useful links to give me info on this? My friends just got a core2 e6600 and we're looking for the best way to overclock it.

Motherboard suggestions are welcomed also :)

Thank you :D
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Not sure about overclocking ,others will tell you that ,but boards are plenty ! Asus ,Gigabyte, Intel are 3 makes to look at ..
 
-Mike- said:
Hi guys,

Can you explain all this strap stuff to me thats required in the core2 overclocking? Do any of you have any useful links to give me info on this? My friends just got a core2 e6600 and we're looking for the best way to overclock it.

Motherboard suggestions are welcomed also :)

Thank you :D
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A strap is what the northbridge is running at timings wise. Some boards at boot will auto swith to a looser strap in order to keep stability at a certain FSB.

Which is why you will find people booting at lower FSB, and using a clockgen in Windows and upping the FSB to the same speed they were before, and getting faster benchmark times. This is because they didn't get the switch at boot to a lesser performing strap. This is on certain chipsets though, and 680i/RD600 that I'm aware of (and probably others) lets you have full control over them.

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Depends on what GPU configuration you want. If SLi you want a nvidia 680i/650i chipset, Crossfire works on 975 and RD600.

Boards seem to have their own niggles, and chosing one for me was hard. I would stop away from RD600 if you want easy overclocking.

975 badaxe 2 looks like a good motherboard, striker and Abit IN9 seems over priced for no gain.

So BX2, 680i (hit and miss on reference boards, some report problems, some don't) or 650i if you don't need 16*2 PCI-E lanes.
 
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Well I got the Asus P5N-E - a steal at the price and does everything I need it to. However, you would have to look at your needs and then judge accordingly.
 
The DS4 is £104 incl vat and delivery which seems pretty good :)I will read some reviews to get a bit of background on this, but I assume with the big thread everyone on the boards has one at the minute? :D
 
If going for an Intel chipset, make sure you have good RAM - not needed on the nV chipset due to the option for unlinked memory/FSB clocking.
 
markyp23 said:
DS3 or P5N - both good boards.

I'd never heard of that strap thing before. Pretty interesting and a very good idea.
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Does it make a difference that the pcie slot is only 8x in the P5n?
 
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