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***The Official Conroe Overclocking Thread ***

Dr Jones said:
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ)
Intel Extreme D975bx-304 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
=£338.29 inc VAT

So you're looking to get the E6300 or E6400 to be +/-£50 from your budget.
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Well I'm going to have to watch what the first wave of people find out about the best bits of kit. I'm quite happy spending more if the performance boost is good. At the moment though I don't know about any of this. Does conroe exploit dividers like A64 chips, in which case good ram is less essential ? Or is it all about the FSB in which case the faster the better? For that matter are the motherboards going to get much better, will they support SLi?

I think i'll be researching for at least a month before I'm ready to pick my poison when it comes to this technology.
 
man_from_uncle said:
Well I'm going to have to watch what the first wave of people find out about the best bits of kit. I'm quite happy spending more if the performance boost is good. At the moment though I don't know about any of this. Does conroe exploit dividers like A64 chips, in which case good ram is less essential ? Or is it all about the FSB in which case the faster the better? For that matter are the motherboards going to get much better, will they support SLi?

I think i'll be researching for at least a month before I'm ready to pick my poison when it comes to this technology.
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get the 800 stuff like the g skill HZ to keep 1:1 with your cpu.
These things are great clockers by initial tests and dont need voltage for good overclocks :D
 
I think the D975bx-304 is expensive for what it is... everyone's getting excited about it but expect there'll be lots of boards just as good if not better and certainly cheaper by early Sept. Patience will pay off!
 
clv101 said:
I think the D975bx-304 is expensive for what it is... everyone's getting excited about it but expect there'll be lots of boards just as good if not better and certainly cheaper by early Sept. Patience will pay off!
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Its a robust board that can handle high FSB.With rock solid stablity. ;)

And of course there will be cheaper mobo's in sept when something is new tech you pay,when things become more available price drops occur.

Everyone knows that lol :p
 
dont suppose anyones had a chance to try 4X 1 gig sticks of ram yet ? Anyone know if you get a performance hit like AMD systems ?
 
silversurfer said:
Thanks for the info Simon, thats pretty impressive on air :)
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Not least as ambiant air is about 27c today... she just sits there at 4Ghz lol
Not tried further, but recon she will. This was brought this week from ocuk btw so the current batch must be very good.
 
Dr Jones said:
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ)
Intel Extreme D975bx-304 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
=£338.29 inc VAT

So you're looking to get the E6300 or E6400 to be +/-£50 from your budget.
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Damn, both are now OcUK listed!! I`m going to start speccing up around july 17/18 and add my new PC to the conroe order!! Hope i`m in the first set of chips!
 
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