Core 2 Duo E6400 and P5W DH - Page 4

Capper · August 18th, 2006

I've been playing with the E6600 all day.....its alright, not the end all a lot of people are making it out to be. With a decent cooler (Scythe Mine), its idling at 43C, load at 55C.....I ordered a new cooler so we'll see if that makes a difference....In this DFI 975X board the best OC I've seen stable is 2.88GHz...might be the board, might be the memory. Look for a couple of good articles next week

RangerXLT8 · August 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Capper

I've been playing with the E6600 all day.....its alright, not the end all a lot of people are making it out to be. With a decent cooler (Scythe Mine), its idling at 43C, load at 55C.....I ordered a new cooler so we'll see if that makes a difference....In this DFI 975X board the best OC I've seen stable is 2.88GHz...might be the board, might be the memory. Look for a couple of good articles next week

Saweet! Did you try updating the bios on the MB? IIRC the DFI 975x was doing about 400MHz FSB(this could have been a ES MB). At any rate I will be looking forward to your results.

@ Blake: Did not even try the C2D in the P5WD2-E, and I know for sure it won't work. lol So in the last year I have spent 750.00 on Asus MB, it's insanity and I don't plan on doing it anymore.

halutzparilla · August 18th, 2006

i'm not confident enough that i can reach the best out of C2D E6400 if i'm ganna use heatsink&fan as a cooler, so i decided to take it to theexotic level of water block.

so i'll wait for your review of water cooling in the next few weeks...

Capper · August 18th, 2006

It'll take a few days of tinkering to find the sweet spot. It bootd perfectly at 430FSB, but anything over that redboots.
The DFI BIOS is also really hard to navigate...as usual lots of poorly described and obscure settings

polobunny · August 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Capper

It'll take a few days of tinkering to find the sweet spot. It bootd perfectly at 430FSB, but anything over that redboots.
The DFI BIOS is also really hard to navigate...as usual lots of poorly described and obscure settings

Memory accuracy (Enable/Disable)
Description: Enabled or Disabled.

Gotta love the useful descriptions they give in the bios.
430's pretty great. =D

yurimxpxman · August 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by polobunny

Memory accuracy (Enable/Disable)
Description: Enabled or Disabled.

Gotta love the useful descriptions they give in the bios.
430's pretty great. =D

haha no kidding. Somebody'd make a fortune if they wrote a new set of BIOS for all the popular motherboards.

Capper · August 18th, 2006

ooops, thats what I get for typing in the dark....it boots fine at 320, not 430FSB

Capper · August 18th, 2006

Oskar Wu is the BIOS God, he has written the BIOS' for the best OCing board ever, between ABIT (IC7 Series) and DFI (DFI NF4 Series)....but yeah, companies need to put a LOT better effort into BIOS descriptions.

polobunny · August 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Capper

ooops, thats what I get for typing in the dark....it boots fine at 320, not 430FSB

Well now that's different. :?

Capper · August 19th, 2006

Hey man, I'm old...my eyes aren't good, nor is my memory at times

August 18th, 2006	#31
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halutzparilla ako the pinoy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach Posts: 1,736	i'm not confident enough that i can reach the best out of C2D E6400 if i'm ganna use heatsink&fan as a cooler, so i decided to take it to theexotic level of water block. so i'll wait for your review of water cooling in the next few weeks... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit

August 18th, 2006	#34
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	It'll take a few days of tinkering to find the sweet spot. It bootd perfectly at 430FSB, but anything over that redboots. The DFI BIOS is also really hard to navigate...as usual lots of poorly described and obscure settings INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

August 18th, 2006	#37
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	ooops, thats what I get for typing in the dark....it boots fine at 320, not 430FSB INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

August 18th, 2006	#38
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	Oskar Wu is the BIOS God, he has written the BIOS' for the best OCing board ever, between ABIT (IC7 Series) and DFI (DFI NF4 Series)....but yeah, companies need to put a LOT better effort into BIOS descriptions. INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

August 19th, 2006	#40
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	Hey man, I'm old...my eyes aren't good, nor is my memory at times INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

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