What CPU should I get for a Gigabyte 965P DS4

[5tephen]

I currently have an E6300 1.86GHz plugged into my rev.1 965P DS4. I can get rid of this CPU for another useful cause - what is the best cpu I can get, given the 800 fsb of this board (and my OCZ RAM)? Would the 1066fsb cpu's be wasted on it?

 

[C64]

No you can use any of the current quads or duo on it.

 

[5tephen]

I forgot to say, the current 1.86ghz cpu is clocked to 2.8 and I want a replacement one that I can clock as far as possible too. Does this change things?

 

[wiggy]

Hi

I just got an E2180 and so far i have had it run at 2.8ghz on stock voltage and i think i can reach 3ghz before upping voltage. Not bad for £55 i say!

 

[Biffa]

You should be able to reach at least 3.0Ghz on a Q6600, I just have on a P965-DS3

 

[vocch]

Get a Q6600 of course...and you maybe lucky enough to get to 3.5ghz like mine.

 

[Talrinys]

Yeah get a Q6600, should net you at least 3Ghz, though you can't ever know for sure before trying it

 

[WJA96]

The P965 motherboards seem to clock Quads extremely well. The P35 boards run a bit cooler, but the overclocks are about the same. Get a Q6600 - you know you want to. And the resale will be significantly higher too.

 

[topshot]

buy a cheap dual core and overclock it, then when the new quads are out in jan/feb upgrade

 

[HeX]

buy a cheap dual core and overclock it, then when the new quads are out in jan/feb upgrade

What I did, was going to get a Q6600, but would have cost me a good £120 to upgrade from my 6300...

So instead I sold my 6300, bunged £20 on top and got a 6600 to tide me over, with the £100 I saved I sold my GTS and upgraded to a GTX

 

[Snapshot]

buy a cheap dual core and overclock it, then when the new quads are out in jan/feb upgrade

This may not be good advice as the older revisions of the 965P-DS4 don't support 1133MHz FSB. There's also no guarantee that there'll be a new BIOS to support Penryn CPUs.

 

[Snapshot]

Make sure you have the F10 BIOS for the DS4 to fully support the Q6600 G0.

 

[5tephen]

Right so I've got it up and running, spent 20-30 minutes just getting a stable setting. It's at 9x330 giving me 2.97GHz, and I've also bought some of that Crucial Ballistix PC-8500 stuff since I had to buy memory anyway and it seems well thought of. What should I be aiming for here? Give me some guidelines as to CPU bus and memory divider, I don't have much of an idea as to what the memory divider should be set at. At the minute if I ask 340+mhz fsb it doesn't boot which isn't too nice.
Also, I'm running a Zalman cnps9700-LED and a few fans and everything is turned down very quietly, and I'm putting preference over quietness than getting outright speed. But I know I should be able to get a bit more