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I upgraded from a 3200+ Winchester at 2520 (280x9)...I really can't say I notice much of a difference, but I bought piece of mind for a little bit more effective use of my machine prior to new memory/motherboard/heatsink/etc. I do gain SSE3 instructions now so I should net some real gains in my use. My wife is happy with her PIII-M 1.2 as she does nothing that uses SSE2/3 and her laptop is snappy. O/Cing is not for everyone.
My HTT failed at 330, my CPU fails Prime95 in 5-30mins at 3000....it can run about 6-10 hours at 2950 and 10-12 hours at 2850.
I haven't tried to test the exact speed my memory (OCZ EL PC3200 Plat Rev 2 2x512mb) fails at...but I know it won't do 250MHz at 2-3-3-8 and seems happy to run ~233MHz at 2-3-3-7 for days.
I am running 295FSB x 9.5, 5:6 (166) for DDR466 speeds...I am running an XP120 with only a L1A fan. My temps are about 40C Max with a 30C system temp running Prime95 default test.
I may try 2850 again at 271x10.5 5:6 (DDR440)...it failed running at 285x10 5:6 (DDR475)...I don't know if the 50MHz CPU is worth giving up 10MHz FSB and 26MHz Memory.
While LCB9E isn't turning 3GHz like some of the CXXXX series did, it isn't a bad OC either and would cost me $700 to buy this speed (AMD FX-57)...my real reservation was I was a little p!ssed finding out this is a dual core with one failed core and not a native single core chip.
There is a lot of talk on the LXXXX chips can't o/c at all, I don't think this is true...I think it's user error. I think right now most that push systems are buying dual core so you are not getting all the talk that the CXXXX chips did when people were buying them originally.
I am running 1.5V...I may back it down though. My temps are great at never over 40C under major load.
Anyway as anything pushing the limits, YMMV...but this is my 2 cents.
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My HTT failed at 330, my CPU fails Prime95 in 5-30mins at 3000....it can run about 6-10 hours at 2950 and 10-12 hours at 2850.
I haven't tried to test the exact speed my memory (OCZ EL PC3200 Plat Rev 2 2x512mb) fails at...but I know it won't do 250MHz at 2-3-3-8 and seems happy to run ~233MHz at 2-3-3-7 for days.
I am running 295FSB x 9.5, 5:6 (166) for DDR466 speeds...I am running an XP120 with only a L1A fan. My temps are about 40C Max with a 30C system temp running Prime95 default test.
I may try 2850 again at 271x10.5 5:6 (DDR440)...it failed running at 285x10 5:6 (DDR475)...I don't know if the 50MHz CPU is worth giving up 10MHz FSB and 26MHz Memory.
While LCB9E isn't turning 3GHz like some of the CXXXX series did, it isn't a bad OC either and would cost me $700 to buy this speed (AMD FX-57)...my real reservation was I was a little p!ssed finding out this is a dual core with one failed core and not a native single core chip.
There is a lot of talk on the LXXXX chips can't o/c at all, I don't think this is true...I think it's user error. I think right now most that push systems are buying dual core so you are not getting all the talk that the CXXXX chips did when people were buying them originally.
I am running 1.5V...I may back it down though. My temps are great at never over 40C under major load.
Anyway as anything pushing the limits, YMMV...but this is my 2 cents.
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