Dilemma 2.4a or 2.6c

bradams

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I have one good O/Cing setup with a ASUS P4S800D, and some descent dual channel 3200 hynix ram.. and I have a Dell 8300 setup.

I have 2 CPUs: 1 is a 2.4a prescott with 1MB cache, the other is a 2.6c with a 512MB cache...

which should use if I only have a standard 3.2Ghz HSF and not the coolest of temps.. which would reach 3.0 Ghz the most stable and the coolest?
 

Gamingphreek

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The 2.6C without question. That prescott is going to be horribly slow and hot. Prescotts are only good if you have xotic cooling and have em clock around 4.5GHZ.

-Kevin
 

Stormgiant

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I would go with the 2.4A only if i had a very nice cooling sytem.

Don't forgett that it uses a default 533 fsb, so it will have to be much more overclocked than the 2.6C to get similar speeds. Also, beeing a Prescott, it will run most things between 1 and 10% slower than the equivalent Northwood... It doesn't have HT also !!!!

For your purpose, I would suggest most definetly the 2.6C.
 

bradams

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I have a standard 3.2Gz HSF.. so I was hoping to bring my 2.6C up to 3.2

should I get a better HSF or will that suffice?
 

Stormgiant

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it should be plenty enough if case is well ventilated and it doesn't need much vcore to run at that speed.

A 2.6C@3200 would run around a 2.4A@3200 in every single task ( except super Pi ;) )
 

Stormgiant

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If you don't know, you don't need it :)

It's a benchmark tool to calculate Pi number to the N digit... it's very good to compare systems, because it takes into accound the cpu speed, memory speed, FSB, cache, etc...
 

bradams

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quote:

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I have 2 CPUs: 1 is a 2.4a prescott with 1MB cache, the other is a 2.6c with a 512MB cache...
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"WOW!!! 512 megabytes of cache !! I want one of those cpus. "


Trust me you don't... very expensive, and I have heard the 512kb cache get equal speeds
 

Gamingphreek

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Originally posted by: bradams
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I have 2 CPUs: 1 is a 2.4a prescott with 1MB cache, the other is a 2.6c with a 512MB cache...
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"WOW!!! 512 megabytes of cache !! I want one of those cpus. "


Trust me you don't... very expensive, and I have heard the 512kb cache get equal speeds

Lol he completely missed the point!! LMAO.

Bradams read the post real real carefully and look what comes after 512.

-Kevin
 

bradams

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my post was a joke... read mine again:

"Trust me you don't... very expensive, and I have heard the 512kb cache get equal speeds "


equal to 512kb, saying that I know the 512mb is supposed to be 512kb