Quad Core

[w3bbo]

I have a zx81 and while not exactly happy with it (quite ashamed tbh) I cant justify the upgrade, I'm gonna wait and see whats around the corner(again)

 

[experience]

" lol! I don't mean to be unkind... but you don't know very much about conroes... the E6300 does a 1.6gig overclock on air fairly easily" is not unkind, its condescending. You are correct but not many people want a gale force wind in their computer, kinda spoils the £200 sound card. V Impressed with the clocks on all C2D specially the 6600.

 

[Jay_t]

4mb level 2 cache instead of the 6300s 2 mb, multiplier unlocked upwards as well as down whereas all other C2Ds unlock downwards only hence mine running at 3.6 GHz and oh yeah, anyone getting a 1.6GHz clock on air is bloody lying and thats all there is to it unless hes got hold of an engineering sample or something.

Most people buy E6600's for about £200. They have the 4MB L2 cache, a 9x multi which will get you upto the chips limit on all decent boards & clock easily to 3.4GHz & higher. Mine will do 3.6GHz (24 hr orthos stable) on stock volts. Most extreme edition chips won't do that.

X6800's go for around £350 on auction sites, which says something. Instead of just giving the user an unlocked multi, Intel ought to offer something else like extra cache, they always used to do this. The unlocked multi on the kentsfield however, is worth its weight in gold, as most motherboards struggle to raise the fsb much with these powerful and demanding chips.

 

[Lolcb]

X6800's go for around £350 on auction sites

That auction still has 3 days left with it. And here you're saying something that might embarass you.

 

[Jay_t]

That auction still has 3 days left with it. And here you're saying something that might embarass you.

I didn't just check that, I was going on past experience. I'll have to live with the shame if it goes for £500 or more.

 

[Lolcb]

I didn't just check that, I was going on past experience. I'll have to live with the shame if it goes for £500 or more.

Doubt it. But I think it will go to at least £450++ £500++ in extreme cases.

 

[easyrider]

Mine will do 3.6GHz (24 hr orthos stable) on stock volts.

whats the stepping of your chip?

 

[Jay_t]

whats the stepping of your chip?

Its a 29A that I bought pre-tested from The Asgard, fine fellow that he is.

I've also had a 24a E6600 which was pretty lame and topped out at 3.3 GHz with 1.55v, an 29A E6700 which topped out at 3.5 Ghz with 1.55v and a 29B E6600 which, suprisingly, would only do 3.5 GHz with 1.55v. I'm defining stability here as orthos/dual prime stable for 24 hours.

I never went higher than 1.55v with the chips, as my cooling is not as sophisticated as yours.

It's handy not having to crank up the voltage on the current E6600 29A as the chip stays cool enough for my air cooling to cope quite easily.

 

[Rroff]

" lol! I don't mean to be unkind... but you don't know very much about conroes... the E6300 does a 1.6gig overclock on air fairly easily" is not unkind, its condescending. You are correct but not many people want a gale force wind in their computer, kinda spoils the £200 sound card. V Impressed with the clocks on all C2D specially the 6600.

sorry I don't mean to be condescending either. Theres plenty of reasonably quiet coolers that will let you run an E6300 at huge (1.5+gig) overclocks.