Xeon X3210...why doesn't OcUK stock them?

[gurusan]

Curious why they aren't available here as they are now being made in the G0 stepping?

....and they are cheaper than the Q6600s

I for one prefer lower multipliers because I like high FSB speeds.

 

[gurusan]

the q6600 can also use the 8x multiplier.

reducing the multiplier overclocks the nbcc which can limit your cpu OC though...

 

[gurusan]

Yeah I don't know why...but your nbcc = (original multi/current multi) x FSB

For example....for a q6600 running at 7x

NBCC = (9/7)x500

= means your nbcc is actually 643mhz...something most likely not bootable or extremely unstable

 

[gurusan]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-167-IN&groupid=595&catid=597&subcat=640

Thats the B3 revision

 

[gurusan]

Ohh I should read more carefully.

Apologies.

No worries, I wasn't very clear in my first post.

Anyway, I've just sent OcUK a webnote so I hope to hear back from them soon.