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Conroe Flu

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Arcygenical

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That's right. I caught it.

I've really been captivated by the amazing OC potential of the Conroe platform, not to mention how My X2 has really been... well, falling apart on the inside. It turns out my board had been overvolting the processor to almost 1.72v (measured with a good multimeter). The poor little guy just choked today and would refuse to boot at anything other than 2.2ghz (luckily at stock voltage in a different motherboard so I know it'll last as a sever proc. in an undervolted condition)

Luckily, I came into the ability to score an E6300, P5B Deluxe (non Wifi) and 2gb of the OCZ Platinum PC2-6400 RAM for a grand total of just over 600$ CAD shipped (which is really tough to beat, considering this setup is about 750$ at most Canadian e-Tailers with the taxes and ship gouging).

My questions of course are as follows:

1) Does anyone see a problem employing this Ram/Board/CPU? Specifically, it seems that lots of OCZ ram doesn't like the default voltage it's being fed... I dont have any other DDR2 Ram on hand either...

2) Will I notice much of a speedup between my X2 3800 at 2.6 and this at stock?

3) How far do you think I'd be able to push the new chip, on water.

4) And lastly, if I did get it to 2.8ghz, what do you think I'd have to get my older 3800 X2 to match it ;).

I've read that the P5B, with a newer bios, has the ability to push the chip well into the 425+ FSB range... almost giving me 2.9ghz, a substantial increase over the 2.6 3800 X2. Am I right/wrong?

Either way, I think I HAVE to make this upgrade... I guess that 7800gt will have to hold on a little bit longer before it becomes obsolete :).

Thanks, once again.


PS: RIP X2 3800, you've been good to me.
 
Does anyone see a problem employing this Ram/Board/CPU?
Will I notice much of a speedup between my X2 3800 at 2.6 and this at stock?
How far do you think I'd be able to push the new chip, on water.
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nope
/shrug but you aint gonna run it stock :)
stock intel heatsink 2.8 GHz and you will notice the speed easily.
3.2 GHz +

You are going to be a happy camper with any kind of decent overclock, been AMD fan since first T-bird, but the dark side has captured me.

edit hmm its late, didnt answer those quite right, but you get the idea. Overclock it till you get 60- 65C load as measured by Coretemp while running Othos. It will run like a scalded cat and still have thermal headroom.
 
Thanks for the reply. I know it's gonna be a noticable improvement, but I need SOME sort of external justification for my money :).


I'm still concerned on whether or not the P5B will boot on the first try with the 2.1v OCZ RAM.


It's pretty much the only RAM I can get for a decent price right now... not to mention the platinum colour Heatspreaders are really nice...
 
My OCZ memory works fine at default voltages on the Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe and the ASUS P5W DH. I never tried it on the P5B, because I didn't have this memory on hand when I was reviewing the board.
 
Yeah, from what I've heard the OCZ ram will boot at 1.8v, but won't reach full stability until 2.1v.

Kinda what I was thinking. Thanks for the input,

Now, if only Asus doesn't ship me another DOA board (that will be 5 in the last 2 years)
 
Arcygenical said:
Yeah, from what I've heard the OCZ ram will boot at 1.8v, but won't reach full stability until 2.1v.

Kinda what I was thinking. Thanks for the input,

Now, if only Asus doesn't ship me another DOA board (that will be 5 in the last 2 years)
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I am running mine at 1.8v on my ASUS P5W DH and it's working fine. 8 hours of Orthos without errors tells me it's probably ok. Plus I've never had any other crashes or issues while using the system for hours on end.
 
Best reassurance I've had all day, and that includes an OCZ tech support call ;).

Thanks for your interest in my thread.
 
Arcygenical said:
Best reassurance I've had all day, and that includes an OCZ tech support call ;).

Thanks for your interest in my thread.
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No problem.

This is actually my first time owning OCZ memory and I've only ever used it one other time.

So far I am impressed with this memory. I have taken it well past what it is rated to do and I haven't had the voltage or stability issues on a couple of different boards now. So I am confident in at least this particular model of memory module.
 
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