Which would be faster...

HeX · 18 Apr 2006 at 21:09

Bored atm, waiting for Conroe before I do a major system overhaul.

But I can sell my 3400+ Newcastle for a good price if I wanted too.

On my current board its running at 2.55Ghz on a 255FSB.

If I sold it and got one of the newer 90nm cored 3400+ Semprons with the newer mem controlers and SSE3 (wowee!) that i've seen reach ~2.7Ghz on air with 1.55V would it be faster than my current CPU or about the same due to half the cache? would it be worth it for the newer controler etc? Whats the chances of actually hitting ~2.7Ghz?

Or shall I stick with what I have and just wait for Conroe to come and sweep me off my feet

HeX · 19 Apr 2006 at 08:03

I didn't know they made venice core chips for 754? :confused:

I don't really want to change my mobo see as its pretty new and the fact i'm going Conroe at the end of the year, just wanted something to play with for a while and the 3400+ Sempron looked to be the only thing about atm...

HeX · 19 Apr 2006 at 09:04

Ya, think i'll just save my pennies, i'm rather annoyed by the lack of voltage adjust on this 8NPA-SLi tbh, this 3400+ Newcastle does 2.6Ghz on +0.1V, which I ran it at nicely for ages on my DFI 250GB and the Epox 8NPAJ, just recently changed to this 8NPA-SLi and the max +voce I can add is 0.05V... which is shocking tbh...

So now i'm stuck at 2.55Ghz... bah... :mad:

HeX · 19 Apr 2006 at 10:16

pastymuncher said:
We have been saying about that stingy voltage adjustment since we had the boards. Apparently it's something to do with the components on the mobo not being able to handle any more. Stingy gits!!

Yeah I blagged their support department for a week after I got the board trying to find out if they were ever going to add more vocore adjustment until they eventually told me it was hardware limited... just seems very odd to limit it to that small an ammount on obviously an 'enthusiasts' board taking as its SLi etc. (yeah I know its 754 which is 'obsolete' in the eyes of many, but why make a top end chipset board only to cripple it with poor overclocking features...)

Yet on the 8NPAJ which is pretty much exactly the same appart from having the nForce-4X chipset instead of the SLi chipset they alow much higher vcore adjustment...

I suppose i'll just have to live with it til Christmas and I get that sweet sweet Conroe loving...