Ok, I've been out of the OC loop for quite a while now. The last OC I did was using the pencil trick on a Duron 750 to get just under 1Ghz out of it. There's been a lot of changes in CPU's, chipsets, FSB's and memory since then. To top it off, the last Intel chip I bought was a 486DX2 running at a whopping 66MHz (That was pre-Pentium for all you teenagers that were probably still in diapers back then 
).
I'm taking a good hard look at this Conroe deal - I've got to admit I'm impressed by the numbers that it's racking up in the tests (just have to wonder whether the math is being calculated properly - or if Intel chips still suffer from the Pentium bug). In particular I'm looking at the E6600, as the price is in my range and the potential is certainly there for the best overclocks since the original Celery's. I don't plan to run it at the 4Ghz Anand was able to get out of it - I'll be more than happy with anything over 3.2ghz (still a 33% overclock).
Here are my questions:
1) In the old days, the CPU frequency was tied the the FSB and memory frequencies as well, meaning if you bumped the frequency of the CPU from 100Mhz to 133Mhz, you were also bumping the memory to 133Mhz as well - because there was only one bus period. - Are these completely sepatate now - or are they still somehow connected?
2) Dual-cores, Double Data Rate.....how does this fit in with bus speeds and overclocking?
3) Back to the first question, but regarding memory - Am I correct to assume (from Anand's memory tests) that the default memory setting for the Conroe is 533Mhz (PC4200)? If so, with a 33% CPU overclock, would there be any reason to run memory rated more than 33% (ie: PC5400)?
4)Any other suggestions or helpful comments you can offer?
Thanks
The Original Dr Pepper!
).I'm taking a good hard look at this Conroe deal - I've got to admit I'm impressed by the numbers that it's racking up in the tests (just have to wonder whether the math is being calculated properly - or if Intel chips still suffer from the Pentium bug). In particular I'm looking at the E6600, as the price is in my range and the potential is certainly there for the best overclocks since the original Celery's. I don't plan to run it at the 4Ghz Anand was able to get out of it - I'll be more than happy with anything over 3.2ghz (still a 33% overclock).
Here are my questions:
1) In the old days, the CPU frequency was tied the the FSB and memory frequencies as well, meaning if you bumped the frequency of the CPU from 100Mhz to 133Mhz, you were also bumping the memory to 133Mhz as well - because there was only one bus period. - Are these completely sepatate now - or are they still somehow connected?
2) Dual-cores, Double Data Rate.....how does this fit in with bus speeds and overclocking?
3) Back to the first question, but regarding memory - Am I correct to assume (from Anand's memory tests) that the default memory setting for the Conroe is 533Mhz (PC4200)? If so, with a 33% CPU overclock, would there be any reason to run memory rated more than 33% (ie: PC5400)?
4)Any other suggestions or helpful comments you can offer?
Thanks
The Original Dr Pepper!
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