965p to?

[Sniper82]

Been using a Gigabyte 965p board for a couple years now. Is there any benefits with going with a newer chipset? Whats new nowadays? I been out of the motherboard loop.

 

[DSF]

I'm a little bit confused. If your memory is holding your overclock back, what does the board have to do with it?

It might help to tell us what memory you're using.

 

[Sniper82]

2x2gb Gskill DDR2 800.

 

[DSF]

It seems to me the solution is to buy faster RAM, not necessarily a new board. Have you tried overclocking you current RAM, maybe with loosened timings and/or a slight voltage bump?

 

[Nickel020]

RAM always has to be as fast as the FSB on Intel boards. at 2,8 GHz you've got 400 FSB and the RAM running at 400 MHz DDR = DDR2 800.

IF your RAM really doesn't go any higher than the rated DDR2 800 then you need new RAM, another board won't help. But it schould overlock at least a little, you only need like 450, because that's where your E6300 will likely max out (I know because mine does).

On the other hand it will make more sense to get an E7200 than getting new DDR2 1000 RAM imho, that thing will overlcock to 4GHz with your current RAM^^

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: Nickel020
RAM always has to be as fast as the FSB on Intel boards. at 2,8 GHz you've got 400 FSB and the RAM running at 400 MHz DDR = DDR2 800.

IF your RAM really doesn't go any higher than the rated DDR2 800 then you need new RAM, another board won't help. But it schould overlock at least a little, you only need like 450, because that's where your E6300 will likely max out (I know because mine does).

On the other hand it will make more sense to get an E7200 than getting new DDR2 1000 RAM imho, that thing will overlcock to 4GHz with your current RAM^^

I'm not sure his board would support an E7200, but that's a good idea if it does.

 

[Nickel020]

If he does a BIOS update before he puts in teh E7200. Loads of people have 45nm CPUs on 965P boards.

 

[Sniper82]

according to this chart it does(at least with a bios update). However my board is rev2.0 and is 1066FSB.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Sup...el.aspx?ProductID=2456

Would it be worth the upgrade really? Whats a used e6300 go for nowadays?

 

[Nickel020]

I'd say about 40 to 60? (60-90$ ?). You can get the E7200 for 90? or so, it's a lot faster at stock (2,53 GHz) has more cache and overclocks a lot better.

965P boards are pretty good for 45nm dual cores. The highest FSB overclocks up until the P45 was released were done on 965P boards, not X48 boards.

 

[Mogadon]

Why can't you just use the memory dividers on your DS3 to lower the memory down below 800.

Here's a link:
http://www.overclock.net/intel...ider-gigabyte-ds3.html

 

[Nickel020]

Because the lowest divider is 1:1, you can only run RAM higher than your FSB, not lower. And he is running his FSB at 400 MHz, so at DDR2 800 he is using the 1:1 divider.

 

[Sniper82]

edited thx for the suggestions

 

[MrStryker]

Which is why I'm waiting for my new P5B Deluxe to arrive. I'd take it over a P35 board anyday.