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New GPU in older system?

Results would probably be a bit better with a 45nm quad such as the q9550/9650. Coupled with the much better P45 chipset boards. x48 was pretty poor with the 45nm quads when it came to overclocking.
 
setter said:
Results would probably be a bit better with a 45nm quad such as the q9550/9650. Coupled with the much better P45 chipset boards. x48 was pretty poor with the 45nm quads when it came to overclocking.
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Yeah, I had an X48 board, and I'm quite sure it was holding my Q6600 back. I couldn't get it past 3.4 and be stable.
 
Q6600 was ok in x48, however the 95/650's were fsb limited in theese boards. P45 was an excellent clocking board with both s775 generation quads. Had 3.8ghz on stock volts of 1.200 on a q9550, and 3.8ghz on a q6600. Board was an Asus p5q deluxe p45. The same q6600 wouldnt go above 3.0ghz in an evga nforce 680i sli board. The worst board ive ever owned tbh.
 
Yes, I've heard little good about those nforce chipsets. I had one many years ago, though I can't remember much about it tbh. I think it was either nforce or nforce 2.
 
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arc@css said:
Yes, I've heard little good about those nforce chipsets. I had one many years ago, though I can't remember much about it tbh. I think it was either nforce or nforce 2.
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Nforce 2 imo was the best of the Nforce chipsets and one of the best chipsets ever.Ahhh, Athy XP days !

The only good thing about the later ones was that you were able to split the FSB from the memory so overclocking was really easy.They just weren't very stable :D
 
Unlinked memory and fsb was pretty ok on Nforce 6, it was a cracking board with a dual core cpu. My only other forte into Nforce was with AMD s939 based systems.

My evga 680i was the A1 revision model, supposedly better with quads. I dont want to think how bad the first model must have been, as the A1 was rubbish with a quad.
 
setter said:
Unlinked memory and fsb was pretty ok on Nforce 6, it was a cracking board with a dual core cpu. My only other forte into Nforce was with AMD s939 based systems.

My evga 680i was the A1 revision model, supposedly better with quads. I dont want to think how bad the first model must have been, as the A1 was rubbish with a quad.
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Rev A1 only worked on 65nm quads (6600 6700X).

None of the 45nm worked I was fuming when I found out.
 
I was left pretty fuming myself at that time. Evga agreed to replace my 680 for a 780 under their stepup program so id have access to 45nm quads, i promptly sent my board off to germany. Only for the upgrade to be refused, "due to dirt in the heatsink". Which wasnt possible as id cleaned it with an air line prior to shipping. A few weeks later my 680 was sent back and was dead on arrival. Hence my upgrade to p45.
 
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