The coming tide

shadowscotland · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:44

Don't know about anyone else but really looking forward to the news this week what with the new folks / verbal & others uping their game :cool:

(and next should be even more intresting)

On that point - just a heads up to the Q6600 buyers out their make sure your new chip is a SLACR with the G0 stepping, not the current SL9UM (B3) version. Less volts and higher temp ceiling (overclockers dream)

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:08

OcUK don't tell you what stepping you're going to get.

shadowscotland · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:14

Doesn't mean you can't ask

or visit the retailer in person and have a good lookie-see

or get a friend to buy you one in the states :cool:

Biffa · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:16

Arent the G0 ones the 1333Mhz bus ones? I think my mobo doesn't like them

booyaka · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:39

same here - my DS3 won;t support them. I think not anyway. Think the Rev 3.3 DS3's will with a bios update.

Will stick to my E6600 and get some more clocking done a.s.a.p - 3.15ghz without changing a setting really and temps are maxing @ 51 !! Should be able to get 3.5ghz hopefully with a a bit of playing.

verbal · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:50

Thanks for the mention, I'm really starting to bring it

This is despite 5 hours downtime for all my crunchers yesterday and losing one to a Motherboard fault. I'm down to 8 PCs now, but more are being delivered any day now. Hope I can squeeze in a few more WUs before tomorrow's news...

shadowscotland · 18 Jul 2007 at 14:14

Biffa said:
Arent the G0 ones the 1333Mhz bus ones? I think my mobo doesn't like them

Well the 1333 bus E6540, E6550, E6750, E6850 & QX6850 are all G0
But so are the NEW 1066 bus Q6600, Q6700 & QX6800

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 14:47

Anyone know how comfortable a quad would be in my P5B Deluxe - don't fancy changing the mobo tbh!

shadowscotland · 18 Jul 2007 at 14:58

straight off the asus site:

CPU, Chipset and Graphics features

LGA775 Intel® Quad-core Processor Ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Quad-core processors in LGA775 package.
It's excellent for multi-tasking, multi-media and enthusiastic gamers with 1066/800 MHz FSB.
Intel® Quad-core is one of the most powerful CPU in the world.

2bullish · 18 Jul 2007 at 15:07

SiriusB said:
Anyone know how comfortable a quad would be in my P5B Deluxe - don't fancy changing the mobo tbh!

Should be no probs, bios supports quad.

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 15:46

Sweet. Just wanted to be sure. Saves me arsing around taking my PC to bits. I can just drop that bad boy right in.

Not decided what I am doing with my E6600 yet though.

shadowscotland · 18 Jul 2007 at 15:53

G0 stepping 'might' need a bios update (as yet not confirmed/released) - previous B3 stepping worked straight of of the box.

Abit for the win.
my board was born for this chip, but my wallet wasn't

SiriusB · 18 Jul 2007 at 15:54

My mobo is probably due an update anyway - not been done since May - so will update before I drop the new chip in.

Snapshot · 18 Jul 2007 at 18:29

shadowscotland said:
Abit for the win.
my board was born for this chip, but my wallet wasn't

Yes, if I can afford one it'll replace the E6400 on the AB9 and I'll leave the E6600/DS4 combo alone. The AB9 PC is where I run VMWare so it makes more sense to have the quad there.

theheyes · 18 Jul 2007 at 19:21

Sounds like I'm gonna have to buy a quad just to stay on the radar. :rolleyes:

Snapshot · 18 Jul 2007 at 20:32

Did something say somebody?

SiriusB · 19 Jul 2007 at 00:07

theheyes said:
Sounds like I'm gonna have to buy a quad just to stay on the radar.

Rubbish. You're after one anyway!

Biffa · 19 Jul 2007 at 00:15

Oooer look what I just did to my Opteron 165 (1.8Ghz stock)

Those temps are whilst crunching a 2610 btw

Initial results are that PPD has just doubled on that box from 337 to 600+ :cool:

SiriusB · 19 Jul 2007 at 00:34

Oooh very nice. Tried it with the SMP client?

Biffa · 19 Jul 2007 at 00:53

Its been running with the SMP client for a while now. At stock tis doing about 1hr/frame, with this clock i expect it to be more like my x2 4800+ at around 30min/frame.