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MrGreen wrote:Bad idea good sir, Intel Core2s are getting re-vamped, so the current ones shall be made oh so very cheap in a few days.

QFT. HARD.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=3038&p=2

Quad core for $266.

OK, for those of you who have a 1066mhz Board, it is quite possible you can get it to run one of these new 1333mhz CPUs, by flashing (ooh err) the BIOS, for asus, you can check <a href="http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpus ... s">here</a>, If you have another type of motherboard, look for a CPU support page or similar.

MrGreen wrote:OK, for those of you who have a 1066mhz Board, it is quite possible you can get it to run one of these new 1333mhz CPUs, by flashing (ooh err) the BIOS, for asus, you can check <a href="http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpus ... s">here</a>, If you have another type of motherboard, look for a CPU support page or similar.

Is kinda true.

While many mobos will have added/addable 1333mhz support, some won't. mostly comes down to luck and the manf.

This has a list of the asus boards/bioses that support 1333mhz

I might as well post my futurerig

* = I don't have it, yet

Core2Duo E6750
2GB OCZ DDR2 RAM
ASUS P5B
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB
Enermax FMA 535W PSU
500/400GB SATA II drive*
Samsung 206BW 20" + Dell 1702FP 17" Monitors
Antec TX150B case


With a fresh new Dual boot
XP Pro x32 (aah, glad to be rid of x64 windaz, it can only be described as really shite)
Ubuntu 7

Roll on bank charges. Should be getting a suitably quicker machine when I get those back.

M4niachicken wrote:Roll on bank charges. Should be getting a suitably quicker machine when I get those back.

Suitably quicker for what? Also, what spare parts might you be wanting to sell off?

MrGreen wrote:
Bad idea good sir, Intel Core2s are getting re-vamped, so the current ones shall be made oh so very cheap in a few days.

Interesting. Will they be cheap as in "ZOMG 5% off" or cheap as in snap one up quicksharp and save up for the mobo and ram within a month or two? I'd certainly like a C2D, but it means replacing half the gubbins of my machine, which I can't do in one fell swoop just now.

Cheap cheap.

Though the price drops will stick, likely no more major drops after the 22nd, just the usual price-sloughing.

It's pretty much the last shots of the current AMD/Intel price war.

Looking £140 for an e6600, £175 for a q6600. both are veeery nice chips (dual and quad core respectively)

What are the E6600s going for normally then? Sounds like I'll have a fair bit of saving up to do yet, and I should probably upgrade from a 17" CRT sometime soon too.

Lateralus wrote:What are the E6600s going for normally then? Sounds like I'll have a fair bit of saving up to do yet, and I should probably upgrade from a 17" CRT sometime soon too.

OC have them at £120 now, I paid around £160 in late March. I become less nervous about occasional overclocking as they become cheaper to replace.

Lateralus wrote:What are the E6600s going for normally then? Sounds like I'll have a fair bit of saving up to do yet, and I should probably upgrade from a 17" CRT sometime soon too.

I think they were running ~£160 until recently, didn't bother looking, what with owning one and all that

Just to upset the chicken.


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You got one then? I'm thinking that despite having a new house to start paying rent on in 6 days time, I need a brand spanking new setup to go in my case, I like the case so i'd get a mediocre one for the old stuff. q6600 looks like I'd be able to encode/mess around with flash and wait very little time for stuff to render.

I did.

I'd suggest waiting and buying the newer ones (being sold as energy efficient/low voltage)

This thing shits heat like you wouldn't believe (partly because I need a better waterblock) 50c idle. 70+ load.

Zomg! think 2 cores will do enough for me if I need to cool the fucker properly. I lucked out with this particular athlon as it runs at 20c and reaches 28c after a few hours of oblivion. I thought my mobo temp sensor was fucked when I first looked, but its not.

Manufacturer:
NVIDIA nForce 680iSLi
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory:
2046MB RAM
Hard Drive:
1.631 TB Total
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Monitor:
Asus MWU22 + Acer AL1916
Sound Card:
Creative SB X-Fi
Speakers/Headphones:
Creative
Keyboard:
Saitek Eclipse
Mouse:
Logitech G5
Mouse Surface:
Operating System:
Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254) + Windows Fista™ Enterprise (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.Fista_gdr.070627-1500)

While I'm waiting for the next round of videocards to come out (i.e.: 8800GT), I've gone ahead and gotten my CPU/RAM upgrade.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (AM2 65W)*
RAM: Transcend AxeRAM 2 x 1GB DDR2 800 Dual Channel set (CAS Latency: 4)


*If I had been buying a motherboard too, I would have gone Core 2, but I can plug this one in easily.

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Well, best plus is that your already at ddr2, so thats one less thing when you swap.Mr green seems very definite that the phenoms will suck, and if thats the case then c2d seems to be the best thing by quite some margin. I should know this, but whats the fsb on these? Is it 800?

HereComesPete wrote:Well, best plus is that your already at ddr2, so thats one less thing when you swap.Mr green seems very definite that the phenoms will suck, and if thats the case then c2d seems to be the best thing by quite some margin. I should know this, but whats the fsb on these? Is it 800?

Well, my PC is running DDR 400 right now, which kinda sucks, but Socket 939 CPU's are pretty much dead, and they cost more than their AM2 brothers. Luckily, my frankenmobo (ASRock 939Dual-SATA2) has a slot of a AM2 CPU upgrade board, which has DDR2 slots on it. It'll be a shitload cheaper and easier than doing a mobo swap. I know C2D would be faster, but a new mobo would be another $75-100 on top. I'd rather dump that money into a faster AM2 chip.

I believe the FSB on Athlon 64's of all kinds is 200MHz. My current 3500+ is 200MHzx11. The Hypertransport bus runs either a 4x or 5x (usually the latter).