Core 2 Duo Advice

[LittleNemoNES]

I'm a little late to the game here especially because of my already nice PC.

SO, I want to get Core2Duo either a 6600 or 6700 from Newegg.com or Zipzoomfly.com
What are their C2Ds like now? Are people getting good steppings or crap recently? My Dream is 3.5+ Ghz.

Also, if someone can point me to a DDR2 guide, I'd like to see it...I think I'm confused about the speeds and all that. It seems very different from DDR1.

Thanks in advance
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Here's a mock build:

Corsair 2GB Value Select

Intel 975xBX

Intel e6700

Keeping my x1900 cards, of course

 

[markymoo]

you not too late at all theres a eagerly anticipated motherboard coming out from abit which has potential to be the best for overclock. so hold off 3-4 weeks if you can.waiting for the bugs to iron out and waiting for the dust to settle after the conroe feeding frenzy is the most sensible option so to not up end up being disappointed and end up buying twice. once the abit board comes out it give more competition between asus to improve there bios. lets hope so

3.5+ isnt a dream

if your on a budget
you need high end air cooler
this recommended 800mhz memory http://www.chillblast.com/product.php?productid=17460&cat=1&bestseller

patience and luck

write down your bios voltage changes everytime so you not repeating your settings.

up the voltage in small increments

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13Ghz overclock 3.74

Holy CRAP! Nice OC. If I were sure I could go that high, I would get a e6400 but I'm sure you 're just extremely lucky as well as skilled.

Is the Abit Mobo the AW9D-MAX? I can't get that cos I need to use my x-fi Fatality... Too bad too

 

[customcoms]

Yeah, I good DDR2 guide should be stickied around here, especially with most of coming off of S939+DDR1 systems. From what I have been reading, 3.2ghz is a virtually guaranteed clock on any C2D; I'm also getting the sense that in general the 2mb cache models (E6300 and 6400 are overlclocking several hundred Mhz higher than the 4mb versions (E6600+), more than making up for the extra cache. Anand has different results but they were using the extreme edition. Overall, the processors just overclock really well (its like AMD S939 but for Intel and better in some respects).

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: markymoo
you not too late at all theres a eagerly anticipated motherboard coming out from abit which has potential to be the best for overclock. so hold off 3-4 weeks if you can.waiting for the bugs to iron out and waiting for the dust to settle after the conroe feeding frenzy is the most sensible option so to not up end up being disappointed and end up buying twice. once the abit board comes out it give more competition between asus to improve there bios. lets hope so

Any new motherboard, especially when it's for a new processor, isn't going to have very good BIOS's for a month, at the minimum. Sometimes, it's never.

 

[markymoo]

yes so right but the conroe is unprecedented. the first cpu to overclock so great(due to its low temps) out of the box and so many enthusiast boards have been sold due to this fact. theres more potential. lets hope they exploit the fullness.

 

[markymoo]

nahh this guys skillful lol
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=86224

ddr2 is shooting up in price past few weeks. it keeps rising.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/09/06/1866373.htm

ddr and ddr2 explained

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1337&redirect=yes
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/167
http://www.pctechguide.com/14Memory_DDR2_DRAM.htm

deeper
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/dram_memory.asp
http://download.micron.com/pdf/technote...n_47_01.pdf#search=%22ddr2%20guides%22


ddr2 guides

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/04/11/live_memory_test_uk/
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/31/tight_timings_vs_high_clock_frequencies_uk/
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/02/27/in..._of_true_ddr2_bleeding_edge_memory_uk/

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=472

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: markymoo
nahh this guys skillful lol
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=86224

ddr2 is shooting up in price past few weeks. it keeps rising.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/09/06/1866373.htm

ddr and ddr2 explained

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1337&redirect=yes
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/167
http://www.pctechguide.com/14Memory_DDR2_DRAM.htm

deeper
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/dram_memory.asp
http://download.micron.com/pdf/technote...n_47_01.pdf#search=%22ddr2%20guides%22


ddr2 guides

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/04/11/live_memory_test_uk/
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/31/tight_timings_vs_high_clock_frequencies_uk/
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/02/27/in..._of_true_ddr2_bleeding_edge_memory_uk/

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=472

Thanks for all the homework

 

[Madellga]

Markymoo, would you be nice and post your bios settings?

How much VCore do you have?

 

[lopri]

I think for an average end-user, the best scenario for performance is 400FSB under 1066 strap, and DDR2-800 with 3-3-3 latency. Of course if your CPU has more in it you should go for it. But for the platform, chances are once you go past 400~420FSB, you will end up with 1333FSB which will loosen the chipset latency. And in general chipset/memory/CPU will all be under quite a stress unlike AMD platform where HTT was relatively independent from CPU/memory.

 

[markymoo]

Originally posted by: Madellga
Markymoo, would you be nice and post your bios settings?

How much VCore do you have?

Heres my bios settings

bios 1

bios 2

bios 3

bios 4