Could anyone give me any advice on what memory to get, from what I remember from building a system ages ago the FSB on the memory, processor and motherboard should match, so I would have thought that I need a 1066 MHZ FSB motherboard and memory, but all the packages on overclockers seem to be only supply 800MHZ memory. Have I misunderstood somthing here cause that doesn't make sense to have only 800mhz memory.
What Memory Should I Get For A C2Duo E6300
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It depends on what motherboard you're getting, but you'd be crazy to buy anything slower than PC6400 (800MHz) and if you can afford better, it'll help.
What board are you thinking of getting? I'm quite lucky in that I have or have had pretty much all of them
so I'm not biased about recommending what I've got!
What board are you thinking of getting? I'm quite lucky in that I have or have had pretty much all of them
so I'm not biased about recommending what I've got!I got reccomended this motherboard - Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650, so I think i'll be getting this one if it has onboard wireless and sound. Also I am going to upgrade the CPU to a Quad core when they become more affordable so I expect this will affect the type of memory I should get. Also I don't don't mind overclocking, as long as it is not to difficult, and if it will make much difference as I read the E6300 runs at 533mhz but can be overlocked to 800mhz.
the p5n-e sli doesn't have wireless....you'll need a card for that.
A decent clocking board that does have wireless & onboard sound is the Asus P5B-Deluxe WiFi. Also I'm pretty sure it supports quad core.
I just ordered a e6300, p5b deluxe, and crucial ballistix 5300 ram ...I'm fairly confident I'll get a decent clock out of all these components. Everything should arrive tomorrow so I'll be able to give some more informed input after that.
BTW the e6300 runs at 1.86 ghz and can usually be clocked above 3ghz at least.
A decent clocking board that does have wireless & onboard sound is the Asus P5B-Deluxe WiFi. Also I'm pretty sure it supports quad core.
I just ordered a e6300, p5b deluxe, and crucial ballistix 5300 ram ...I'm fairly confident I'll get a decent clock out of all these components. Everything should arrive tomorrow so I'll be able to give some more informed input after that.
BTW the e6300 runs at 1.86 ghz and can usually be clocked above 3ghz at least.
Thanks for the advice, it would be good to have Wi-fi built in so i'll have a look at that one. Shouldn't all motherboards which support 1066FSB core 2 duo's also support the 1066FSB Quad Core though, or do I have to look for one which specifically states it.
You will not be at all surpised to learn that not all 1066MHz FSB motherboards support quad-core processors, although most do.
The P5N-E SLI does support Quad-Cores, but, like all the NVidia chipset boards it doesn't clock them past 315FSB or so, which is a fairly pathetic overclock. I wouldn't get a P5N-E SLi unless you need SLi as it has various issues that make it hard to recommend unless you need SLI or 2 PATA IDE ports.
Your wish to have on-board wireless limits you massively, and the handful of boards that do offer wireless usually are only actually bundling a WiFi riser card rather than true integration onto the motherboard.
The safe choice is going to be something based on the Intel P965 chipset and the P5B is a good safe choice in any of it's many forms (I think there are 9 different P5B motherboards and the P5B-Deluxe WiFi AP Solo is the most expensive!)
If you bought anything from;
ASUS P5B (take your pick, they're all good, but some are better value than others)
Abit AB9 QuadGT
Gigabyte DS3P (loads of people have these, but it's a classic and you'll get lots of help if you get stuck)
And paired that with any PC6400 RAM then you would get 2.8GHz almost guaranteed from your E6300 and maybe a bit more (3.0-3.2GHz isn't uncommon with Crucial Ballistix PC6400 or Geil Ultra PC6400). With the 965 boards it's the RAM that will hold back the overclock, not the CPU as the CPU will invariably do 3.2-3.4GHz if you have the patience to tweak it.
The P5N-E SLI does support Quad-Cores, but, like all the NVidia chipset boards it doesn't clock them past 315FSB or so, which is a fairly pathetic overclock. I wouldn't get a P5N-E SLi unless you need SLi as it has various issues that make it hard to recommend unless you need SLI or 2 PATA IDE ports.
Your wish to have on-board wireless limits you massively, and the handful of boards that do offer wireless usually are only actually bundling a WiFi riser card rather than true integration onto the motherboard.
The safe choice is going to be something based on the Intel P965 chipset and the P5B is a good safe choice in any of it's many forms (I think there are 9 different P5B motherboards and the P5B-Deluxe WiFi AP Solo is the most expensive!)
If you bought anything from;
ASUS P5B (take your pick, they're all good, but some are better value than others)
Abit AB9 QuadGT
Gigabyte DS3P (loads of people have these, but it's a classic and you'll get lots of help if you get stuck)
And paired that with any PC6400 RAM then you would get 2.8GHz almost guaranteed from your E6300 and maybe a bit more (3.0-3.2GHz isn't uncommon with Crucial Ballistix PC6400 or Geil Ultra PC6400). With the 965 boards it's the RAM that will hold back the overclock, not the CPU as the CPU will invariably do 3.2-3.4GHz if you have the patience to tweak it.
Thanks very much WJA96 for the advice. After looking at the boards you have suggested I think that I should get the Abit AB9 Quad GT. I have had abit and asus boards before and I preferred abit. Also it has HDMI audio header which sounds useful for the future graphics cards. Would you reccomend this board over the others?
Also I have decided that wireless is probably not a good idea as if the wireless connector goes out of date then i'll have to get a whole new motherboard and also I have no need for dual GPU as by the time a 8800 goes out of date ill probably need a whole new board anyway.
Also I have decided that wireless is probably not a good idea as if the wireless connector goes out of date then i'll have to get a whole new motherboard and also I have no need for dual GPU as by the time a 8800 goes out of date ill probably need a whole new board anyway.
Ambro said:
It's the one I bought, but to be blunt, you'd be safer with the DS3P if you're looking for stability and a guaranteed overclock. The Abit is still a bit 'new'. If you're not buying today then check back in a week, because they are releasing new BIOS roms all the time, but if I was you, I'd probably bottle it and buy the DS3P. I'm incredibly lucky in that if one doesn't give me the ultimate overclock I just knock it back to stock and put it into our test suite.
If you're only going to have 1 PC - get the DS3P and good RAM. Megatron has, quite correctly, pointed out elsewhere that the Patriot RAM requires extra volts to get it to boot with the DS3P so if you do go that way, you'll need to beg/steal/borrow a stick of value RAM to get it running. You may be able to ask OcUK to set it up for you if you buy it from them - I'm sure they'd rather do that than pay two sets of RMA shipping!
If you feel up for a safe-ish bet, the Abit is the better board, but the DS3P is the guaranteed sure-thing.