Soldato
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Just wanted to pass on my limited experience and thank everyone around here for the various bits of advice I've picked up in recent weeks.
I was a bit dubious about upgrading from my 2.4GHz x2 3800 on an Asrock Dual SATA, but even at stock speeds, my E6600 setup immediately shows a 30-50% boost in the CPU intensive flight sim and movie editing software which both stress my old system out.
Overclocked to 3.15GHz (1.41V) the E6600 really flies, and I'm *much* more impressed by this upgrade than I was when I went from 2.2GHz Barton to the x2 3800. I just wish I'd bought an earlier, lower voltage version of the Conroe which'd hit higher speeds more reliably. I'm very stable (well, 5 hours & running Orthos) at 3.15GHz, but all attempts to push up above 3.2 have met with reboots. I could push the voltage up even higher, but life's short and an extra .1 or .2 GHz isn't worth fighting for.... though I might fight a bit for an extra .4.
For reference, my CPU's FPO# is L644G264 and it's an SL9ZL (ie not ideal, bought on Wed 16th May. I was going to buy the 8500 Ballistix, and that might have helped a little, but after reading about recent Conroe performance being less impressive, and after wading through a million memory section threads I decided I'd save some money and get the 5300.
Besides, in recent years I've wasted a small fortune buying extra-special, supa-doopa RAM which has never really earned its keep. All in all I'm very happy with the bang for buck I'm getting now though.
Thanks again to everyone who contributes to the knowledge base here.
Andrew McP... off to enjoy his 3.15GHz. Or maybe to try one more wafffer-thin .1V?
I was a bit dubious about upgrading from my 2.4GHz x2 3800 on an Asrock Dual SATA, but even at stock speeds, my E6600 setup immediately shows a 30-50% boost in the CPU intensive flight sim and movie editing software which both stress my old system out.
Overclocked to 3.15GHz (1.41V) the E6600 really flies, and I'm *much* more impressed by this upgrade than I was when I went from 2.2GHz Barton to the x2 3800. I just wish I'd bought an earlier, lower voltage version of the Conroe which'd hit higher speeds more reliably. I'm very stable (well, 5 hours & running Orthos) at 3.15GHz, but all attempts to push up above 3.2 have met with reboots. I could push the voltage up even higher, but life's short and an extra .1 or .2 GHz isn't worth fighting for.... though I might fight a bit for an extra .4.
For reference, my CPU's FPO# is L644G264 and it's an SL9ZL (ie not ideal
, bought on Wed 16th May. I was going to buy the 8500 Ballistix, and that might have helped a little, but after reading about recent Conroe performance being less impressive, and after wading through a million memory section threads I decided I'd save some money and get the 5300. Besides, in recent years I've wasted a small fortune buying extra-special, supa-doopa RAM which has never really earned its keep. All in all I'm very happy with the bang for buck I'm getting now though.
Thanks again to everyone who contributes to the knowledge base here.
Andrew McP... off to enjoy his 3.15GHz. Or maybe to try one more wafffer-thin .1V?
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