I can't really think of too many other reasons someone would return a monitor...
or maybe it has really bad back light bleed.
either way, i'd pass. i say no to open box anything on newegg. you never know what kind of n00b had his grubby paws all over the stuff before you!
Derek, you guys might be famous, but that's not such a great thing if you're famous for being wrong. I'd really be interested to see what you can say to refute the points Kyle brings up in this article.
Canned benchmarks might be repeatable, but what's the point of that when people are buying...
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650 Ultra really doesn't have anything to crow about that P965 doesn't already have. You can get really great boards with Intel chipsets for cheap, so what the hell is the point of 650 Ultra?
I just got this board in, and I'm not super familiar with all the tweaking options. I've tried a fair number of combinations including dropping the CPU multiplier and locking the DDR2 at 800mhz. All of the spread spectrum and special CPU features turned off.
The board just doesn't want to go...
To go as high as possible you'd want some super fast DDR2-800 or even DDR2-1000. You'll have to break DDR2-1000 speeds in any case to get the chip up to 3.5ghz.
Of course, the best solution on the market right now are the Buffalo Firestix. They are like $240 on Newegg, and mine go up to...
Nah, the smallest memory divider you can use with the 965P chipset is 1:1. You can run the memory faster than the CPU but not slower. You should look into the new NForce 6 series chipsets if unlocked memory speeds is a must. I'm not sure if the 650 SLI chipset has it, but I know the 680 does...
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