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2.4c or 3.0c

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PhattyT

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whats better? for OCing?cause im thinking is a 2.4c really worth it to buy and then OC to 3.0 but have to buy better heatsink and fan or is 3.0c better cause it can oc 3.4 witout buying a new heatsink of fan. 2.4c really risky to OC wit stock fan and sink
help me plzz!! :D
 
Personally I think if you have the ram to do it with, the 2.4C is a better idea. Most C chips with good cooling will do 283 FSB (3.4 GHz) which is like near 1200 QDR -- a 3.0 @ 3.4 is only like 900 QDR.
 
noooo

get a 3.0c from excaliberpc.com

most of them hit 3.8ghz stock cooling stock volts. Mine did. It was at 4.0ghz stable before my hard drive died:mad:
 
its the new stepping...

sl6wu...

they are special, 1.475 default voltage and most of them are guaranteed 3.8ghz stock voltage/stock cooling. Head over to xtremesystems.org/forums when they come back up and look at the 3.0c northwood results thread.
 
I ordered a 3.0c a few days ago. Should show up Thursday. I'll post some results when I get a chance to.
 
I've a 3.0c. Stepping: SL6WK, rev. D1 Malayasia
3.54GHz at 1.56v and stock cooling. At 3.59GHz I can benchmark, but the system is a little unstable at those speeds for more than a few hours.

While some of the 2.4c chips are ledgendary, if you look around at any well read forum (such as this one), you will find quite a few people complaining about poor 2.4c OC's. Plus, I'm noty sure if any of the 2.4's that Intel has been seeling lately have been doing that well. Most of the "2.4 @ 3.2GHz+" chips were purchased a while ago I think.
 
my 2.4 will bench at 280fsb (3.36) but i only run it at 3.24.

i bought mine from newegg the 2nd day they were released, good stuff. now its a crapshoot what you'll get tho.

id buy a 3.0, theyre only like 20 bucks more now arent they?
 
right now excaliberpc only has sl6wu in stock...they won't guarantee you a stepping personnally, but I emailed them and they said "we have the latest revision of everything usually due to the large amount of stock we move. the sl6wu being the latest revision, I'd say you would have a good to high chance of getting it."

I have seen lots of sl6wu's from excaliber recently and not one otherwise....
 
those !!!!!uckers at Newegg sent me a SL6WK. :mad:

crapcakes. Max I can get that is stable is 3.6Ghz. Which isn't too bad I guess....but I was really hoping for one of those SL6WU chips that hit the 3.7+ on stock voltage.

wondering if I RMA'd it close to the 7 day limit on CPUs if I'd get a SL6WU stepping as a replacement....
 
not from newegg you won't....I heard of a lot of sl6wk's coming out of newegg. Try selling it on the forums @ guaranteed 3.6ghz for like $200 and then buying one from excaliber.
 
damn....wish I had known that before I ordered it. I went on instinct since I've never been let down by the egg.

oh well. I guess I'll have to decide what to do then...keep it or sell it. I may just keep it since 3.6Ghz isn't really all that bad...
 
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