You'll likely be waiting a while for Nehalem unless you have a big wad of cash ready. IIRC, the first Nehalems will be more expensive than the Extreme Edition Quads.
Yes, but depending on when you want to build, you may want to wait for the P45 boards. If you want SLI, however, then a nVidia chipset is the only way...
Ok, not rock solid at 3.15G. I have the latest bios and drivers, but suddenly I got a ton of drive corruption the only way to get back running was to restore from a two day old backup :eek: It wasn't a cpu temp problem, so I don't know what happened. Now I'm running at 3.0GHz. The Vdroop on...
Yeah, I've got it up and running now. I'm using 60x25mm fan and running it at 50%. More than enough cooling for now. Much less noisy than those cheap 60x10mm fans OEMs use.
BTW, so far I really like this board. Solid as a rock at 3.15GHz first boot (as opposed to the nightmarish problems...
Is the NB fan speed speed adjustable within the sub-menu? I'm asking because I may mount a higher CFM 60mm fan on it before installing it in my case, but if I can't drop the RPMs via the bios, it will be loader than hell (not that I've been there).
TY!
Maybe I have a bad board. I have decided to RMA it because it's just become the worst time suck on any board I've owned. The NB (MCP) cooler has about 40cfm blowing past it, if that's not enough then something is wrong.
What P35 board gave you all the problems with your quad?
We just need a review on [H] to see if this board can really do what we've seen at the EVGA forums. the EVGA 750 FTW would go nicely with my EVGA 9600GT :D
The P7N Platinum is a nice board so long as you're not looking for good Quad OCing. I found the same problems as Morry trying to overclock a G0 Q6600 - very annoying and disappointing. I've even tried the 1.11 beta and P02 performance BIOSes. It just doesn't seem to be a good card for quads...
We won't know till they are out (in a month or two) but the P45's could be good. They are built on a smaller process than the P35s and will run cooler - which could be a plus. On top of that, I imagine Intel targeted that chipset directly for 45nm CPUs.
The drag with many Gigabyte boards is the huge copper HS on the back on of the board, if you have a bolt on CPU HSF, you're stuck. Otherwise they seem to be very good boards.
Well, it's looking like 3.15GHz is stable. Seems like my particular mobo is very FSB limited, but I can't be 100% sure since I can't knock down the multi.
I hope they fix the multiplier problem, then I can drop my mem speed and tighten up the timings allot. I'd rather run at 400Mhz, 800Mhz Cas4 DDR2 than 356Mhz and 1036 Cas 5 DDR2 - then I'd be synced up better.
Yeah, seems to be the trick. I'm at 1.55v for VTT and running my NB (MCP) at about the same. So 3.2GHz is looking like it might be stable (need more stress testing). vCore is ~ 1.27v (under load) and maxes out at about 48 degrees for my hottest core. I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones...
Hmm, didn't seem to work with P02 and a Q6600, I dropped it to 8 but it still came up 9x :( Maybe I'm missing something (I am turning speedstep off).
I'm playing with the 1.11 version ATM.
Cool, downloading now. Does P02 allow one to change the multiplier? Neither of MSI's official BIOSes do (well, the numbers change, but the hardware doesn't).
Ty!
Nah, Intel's having problems, but doesn't want to talk about it (they'd rather have people talking about AMD's problems. They have a low-k 45nm process that is working well. Their high-k 45nm process is (was?) having serious yield problems - so they were cranking out thousands, but they...
And over at AT they are saying the P45 has been delayed till late Q2 (May/June) :(
This suXors, both delayed Quads and even more delayed boards that will likely work best with the new Quads.
Supreme Commander, when Core Maximizer running, will use up to 4 cores, IIRC, with pretty even usage per core. SC eats cpu cycles and memory like a starving dog (for large games at least).
Thanks for the response Markyip1 - point taken. A few things:
A. I did say 'on air'.
B. I did imply you'd need a very good motherboard simply by saying you'd need an FSB of 450+ with a Quad.
C. Good point on WC, I did not take that into consideration (since the last time I ran on water...
Actually, the Q9450 will likely have about the same headroom as the Q6600 (~1.0-1.2GHz on air), you'll just need a board able to hit 450MHz+ FSB speeds with Quads to take advantage of that headroom.