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BillParrish said:A Biostar motherboard ? I think I am going to be ill.
OMG, I hate Biostar my Gigabyte DQ06 only does 3.36GHz
chrisf6969 said:Another one: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1100608
There are more, but thats a classic one.
PureBooYah said:that's extreme even for me
i've never returned/RMA'd a cpu because of an overclock or lack thereof...i either suck it up stick with the overclock i get or sell it and buy another.
TypeO said:And when they sell it, you'll end up with this in the FS section: "Core2Duo FS, Never OC'd!" Right....I'll roll the dice and order new. I get what I get.
vailr said:Do any online vendors have the Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe?
Thanks.
chrisf6969 said:OK, I'm totally kidding. My Core 2 only does 3.0Ghz, but I'm happy with it anyway. It kicks my Pentium D's ass at 3.9Ghz and runs A LOT COOLER to boot.
I've just been reading the past page of threads. And most of them are "OMG my Conroe only does 3.xGhz" threads.
ATTENTION PEOPLE!!! All chips (including CPU's, RAM, & Motherboard NB/SB) are not created equal. If you get a 3Ghz clock on a mid to low end Conroe you should be happy. Intel only released a 2.93Ghz XE for a reason. Its b/c they could only a certain # of them to that speed bin easily. Considering we're all early adopters I think 3Ghz is a great results, and all of these people with 3.6-4Ghz EXPECTATIONS (not hopes) are expecting a little too much.
Granted I had HOPED for 3.6Ghz. A nice even 400FSB x 9, so my ram would be perfectly in spec at 1:1. but I settled for 3Ghz. Granted I may try to tweak out 3.2Ghz, but all of this "OMG whats wrong", "Week 2x sucks b/c my chip only does 3.x", etc really needs to chill!
BTW, I'm still hoping Gigabyte will come out with some BIOS fixes which make 333 + FSB more stable. My personal theory is Intel has some type of NB strap at 333 for the next speed and its trying to run in a performance mode that our ram/chips aren't ready for yet.
smilepak said:I can't get anywhere close to it yet. I am bogged down by the DDR2-533 2GB Kingston Value Ram. So right now, I got it at 310FSB on the E6400, which gives me about 2.4Ghz.
chrisf6969 said:Oh well crappy ram You can get 2Gb of ddr2 800 for around the same price as most 2Gb kits of 667 & 533 ( ie: around $200)
schizo said:It's groovy that you're happy, man. Your expectations were met. Other people have different expectations. And by the way, week 26+ e6600s are hitting 3.6 with ease.
Falkentyne1 said:Don't generalize.
Someone on XS had a week 26 E6600 that required 1.575v for 3.0 ghz ! And everyone (except me and 1 other decent sensible person) blamed the P5WDH !! (since *cough* all chips should hit 3.5 ghz with some voltage *cough*, right?) And 1 chip later, we found that me and the other person were right. (Thank god we avoided him wasting time and $$ RMA'ing a perfectly good motherboard.....)
First poster hit the nail on the head. You're just being asinine.
infin@ said:The whole point of overclcoking i thought was to find the maximum mhz of ones cpu...or so i thought? I got a week 29 core 2 6600 and was a little surprised at the ammount of voltage required to hit 3.6, its true not all core 2s are created equal hell i'm happy with an 1150mhz overclock any day just wish my video card overclocked like these bad boys.