T7600 - Keep or Sell???

[ShaunBrewer]

I have a T7600 (had to buy fantastic price but now???)

I had originally thought of a media box - mobile processor so low power quite etc.

However all of the MBs I have seen for this processor seem to lack the video out I would like e.g. DVI and s-video.

e.g. the Gigabyte GA 8I945GMMFY-RH or the ASUS N4L-VM DH i945G

Adding a seperate graphics card seems to be a waste.

Also the mobile socket is changing early next year perhaps better options will exist then?

I then looked at some of the overclocking results with the AOPEN board - AOpen i975Xa-YDG - however very expensive and I am not sure if it would be beaten by a cheaper e6600 setup?

So I am better trying to sell the T7600 and buying a e6600 or something now as a main machine and wait on the media box till next year.

I have an e6300 on an Asrock board but would love to put together something with sharper teeth.

Thanks for any suggestions

Shaun

 

[Roughneck]

I have a T7600 (had to buy fantastic price but now???)

I had originally thought of a media box - mobile processor so low power quite etc.

However all of the MBs I have seen for this processor seem to lack the video out I would like e.g. DVI and s-video.

e.g. the Gigabyte GA 8I945GMMFY-RH or the ASUS N4L-VM DH i945G

Adding a seperate graphics card seems to be a waste.

Also the mobile socket is changing early next year perhaps better options will exist then?

I then looked at some of the overclocking results with the AOPEN board - AOpen i975Xa-YDG - however very expensive and I am not sure if it would be beaten by a cheaper e6600 setup?

So I am better trying to sell the T7600 and buying a e6600 or something now as a main machine and wait on the media box till next year.

I have an e6300 on an Asrock board but would love to put together something with sharper teeth.

Thanks for any suggestions

Shaun

I was going to suggest putting it in a AOPEN board - AOpen i975Xa-YDG

but looks like youve allready decided against it

 

[OC_A64]

T7600 has a decent multi, you should get to ~ 230 before you start hitting FSB walls (though you maybe unlucky and hit one earlier). That'll give you an easy 3.2ghz which isnt too bad.
If you're going for a huge overclock then you probably wont get it from the Merom due to the FSB bug (unless you're lucky and get a bug free or high FSB capable chip). In this case, Conroe's a better way to go.
Performance will be pretty much on par with a desktop 4mb cache chip, maybe a little less but its not much.

Really depends on what you want out of the system really, and how much you want to spend. The AOpen board, with the later bioses is quite nice to clock. It's a little quirky but as long as you know its limits everythings pretty straight forward. If you're after 3.5ghz + overclocks then you'll be dissapointed with the Merom/Aopen combo in all likelyhood, if you're after a quick, quiet machine then it'll give you that no problem

 

[ShaunBrewer]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the ideas, my problem with the AOpen i975Xa-YDG board is its price I would be going that way only because the media box did not work out - and want a cruncher instead.

If the Aopen with the T7600 would significantly outperform a e6600 then it would be worth it. But it sounds as if an e6600 on a cheaper boad would be faster.

The T7600 retails between £400-450 a lot of change from a e6600 if I could sell for anywhere near that - maybe I can ebay it (brand new and still sealed).

Shaun

 

[maddness]

i doubt you would get anything near that, ive seen a few es 7600s go for £200. So a retail probably adds £50-£100 max to the price (if someone really wants it).

i still would recommend selling and getting a 6600 over it, unless you have a laptop that can make use of an upgrade.

Ive used the aopen board, as good as it is, its not worth the premium price tag.

 

[OC_A64]

i doubt you would get anything near that, ive seen a few es 7600s go for £200. So a retail probably adds £50-£100 max to the price (if someone really wants it).

i still would recommend selling and getting a 6600 over it, unless you have a laptop that can make use of an upgrade.

Ive used the aopen board, as good as it is, its not worth the premium price tag.

You can get 200 for a 7400 on ebay easy. Should be able to get 300-350 for the 7600, that'd pretty much pay for an E6600 + mobo.

 

[david25]

You need a AOpen i945GTm-VHL 945GT

Supports DVI, VGA, and S-Video.

I use a ASUS N4L-VM DH i945G with my T7400 chip (as is cheap and I dont need the HTPC functions)

 

[ShaunBrewer]

Thanks david will check it out!

Shaun

 

[ShaunBrewer]

Oh well its on ebay

currently at £165 - so wish me luck

A friend has it on for me as my account shaunbrewer only has 2 transactions 100% but still only 2 transactions could put someone off - can't risk it.

Shaun