I lowered fsb few notches down as I had one in game crash. It's probably running on the edge.
I had more luck with prime95 in the past, it always good indicator of stability.
Is there something better? Seen some people using SuperPi.
What's the best suite to really stress it out?
I tested ram before at 1000MHz, was running fine, but I didn't do that for very long.
Prime95 is stressing the ram too AFAIK. I set it to use over 1.5GB of memory.
Anyway I'll try doing a full memtest from boot cd, see what happens.
I got this hardware recently and been playing around with overclocking.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 iP35
2x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2
I reached stable 480 fsb which gives me 3.84 from 2.66GHz
I considered it stable as I run prime95 for half...
@wittangamo good point, but what about upgrade path, will P35 support upcoming Intel CPUs? It's a bit pain to change your mobo and ram every year.
@dflynchimp I'm not a big fan of cheapest anything, especially the motherboard, it's usually the most important component for me
They actually have a bundle: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition G0 Stepping OEM + Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
for £160 so this might be a good pick based on your advice.
I currently have Antec P180 case and Seasonic S12 600W PSU - I assume it will do the trick
Hi all,
I need to upgrade my box. I'm currently running A64X2 @ 2.5
I got a new 1900x1200 monitor and upgraded video card from 1900XT to 8800GTX
but it looks like CPU is holding it back in some games. I mean titles like UT3 and Crysis.
So I decided to go for Core 2 Duo.
I'm looking for...
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