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If a motherboard is able to run a Core2Duo , can we safely assume it can run a Core2Quad?
Just wondering, I want to cheaply upprade my GF cpu without having to change the motherboard and ram.
Thanks
It's not all that bad, or maybe that's just because I was heavy into doing lots of upgrades for people n that time period and familiar with the time-line of products there.Wow, more complicated than I expected.
I'll look into the model number when I get home tonight, I know it's a gigabyte and I remember something about -DS3 at the end but that's pretty much it
Thanks for the info!
It's not all that bad, or maybe that's just because I was heavy into doing lots of upgrades for people n that time period and familiar with the time-line of products there.
GA-945P-... most likely not
GA-965P- possibly with bios update
GA-P35- almost definitely
GA-P45- definitely
965P chipset is not limited to 65nm only. It depends on the motherboard design and manufacturer support.P35 can for certain, 965P is limited to 65nm quads.
965P chipset is not limited to 65nm only. It depends on the motherboard design and manufacturer support.
Certain model/revisions of ASUS, Gigabyte, and other quality motherboards with bios update can run the 45nm.
IC, sorry.I know.
We were specifically talking about the GA-965P-DS3.
IC, sorry.
If your board has a 4 pin CPU 12v connector, you do NOT want to overclock quads on high voltage, or you risk burning out the connector. You can overclock them to around 4 ghz on default vcore (if they will run that high) without crashing...but if you want to pump the voltage, you *need* an 8 pin connector. Boards with 8 pin cpu connectors were designed for overclocking quads.
This.This is not accurate. I've overclocked/overvolted MANY (dozens) quads with boards using a 4-pin connector and I've had a problem with exactly 0 of them.
This.
While I can't attest to overclock/overcolt capability.
You won't "risk burning out the connector" the current difference just isn't there, the resistance may rise, and you may get some voltage droop that you won't be able to overcome, and thus limit your overclock. But you won't burn anything out.
If you burn out that connector, something else catastrophic happened.
Assuming all wires/pins are identical halving the number of wires/pins will mean FOUR TIMES as much heat on each wire/pin. Remember that for a given resistance power is proportional to the sqare of current.For example, drawing 200W through one wire will generate twice as much heat ON that wire as drawing 200W through TWO wires, because the current isn't being spread out.
Yes that's full system power.214W system power consumption? (going from the last link) Definitely not
Unless a videocard and hard and optical drives were all capable of using less than 100W together
Even a video card at 2d settings can't combine with drives for that low Maybe if its a 5200 or 4200 card...
Rather sure its the CPU.
BTW just reading a thread about "SB dying/voltages" caused me to run into another post about burnt 4 pin connectors, and I wasn't even looking for it....
Ben_Lamb
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Funny how Intel is recomending the same 1.375max volts as the 45nm processors, the 32nm process must be quite durable. Then again they used to recommend 1.5vmax for 65nm chips like the q6600 and that was not healthy for chip or motherboard, burnt the cpu power socket out on mine (4pin). I think anything over 1.4v is definately no good for 24/7 but with a three year warranty who cares ? If Intel get enough returned K series chips overclocking could be phased out or they will have to put a voltage limiting circuit on chip !
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http://www.semiaccurate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4064&page=3
So yeah its not as rare as you may think, especially on boards that were made for 65nm (such as mine, which burnt slowly with 45nm high clocks/vcore)