Originally posted by: Gary Key
Hi Duvie,
The E6600s and up are different animals on this board. I will post some E6600 results in a couple of days. Due to the 4MB cache and hitting the 1066 memory strap earlier, these CPUs have not been clocking as high on the P965 boards (9x410 or so) unless you drop the mulitplier which defeats the purpose of buying one.
The bios revisions are coming in hot and heavy right now. I already had three from Gigabyte today, one from Biostar, two from Asus and Foxconn.
Here is a good link discussing the memory strap issue on Intel chipsets (975X centric but the same rules apply overall). Gigabyte and Asus have their arms around it and everyone else is getting close now.
- Memory Straps on Intel CPUs Article -
Also, do you remember way back to the Northwood days? Here is a blast from the past and it reminded me of the whole AMD versus Intel issue that seems to be in full swing again, not on your behalf but it shows that some of the most avid AMD users were once, gasp, huge supporters of Intel. Of course this belief was not based on the company but on the performance of the product like it should be.
- Northwood Discussion -, I was Bingo13 at the time and fully admit to being a huge RDRAM freak. :laugh: I went from Athlon XP lover to Intel Northwood to Athlon 64 to Core 2 Duo in the last four years and yet a lot of us here still cannot get the message across that is all about being performance centric, not team centric. I can remember changing the crystals on the Harris and AMD 286s and being called out for it as it was a cheap way to outperform the twice as expensive Intel 286 at the time, lets not even discuss the 486DX wars. LOL... anyway, need to get back to testing so we have a meaningful Gigabyte review shortly.....
I am seeing temps around 24c (room temp is 22c) idle with the E6400 and moving up to 46c at full load (dual prime+) when overclocked with the Tuniq 120. That seems to be the worst case at this time, without the overclock and under full load (dual prime+) the temps hit around 39c, normal load (games, etc) is around 34C. I am still having a hard time understanding the Maximum PC article where there was only a 3C difference between idle and load.