- Jan 28, 2007
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I am making a new system... I am currently running what I have below. I am going to make a computer for my wife basically. In doing so I am gonna buy some upgrades for my personal use and move some of my parts to her computer. Now here are my questions:
1) Planning on a 6600 going into the system I keep for myself. Will be cooled by the Zalman I already have and the 6300 will get it's stock cooler back. Is the 6600 the way to go or could I get killer performance out of a 4300? Right now I can't max my 6300 out because of my ram. It's unstable above this clock but I can get windows to boot at 3.6.
2) Which mobo to buy. Either going to buy the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 and then put whatever processor I get for my wife on it. Or I am going to buy ASUS P5N32-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI if it's a better board than my Evga. Also is there much diff between the Asus 680i and the 650i?
3) Going to buy Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 because I currently feel that my ram is what's holding my overclock back. I have to have my timings majorly relaxed and my vdram up to 2.3 on my ocz for it to stay stable at 3.3ghz so I'm concerned with that so I'm back off to 3.0ghz and tighter timings with a more moderate 2.1vdram.
So currently I'm thinking 6600 with the asus 680i (if it's better than the evga) with the crucial. Or would the 6300 reach those higher setting with the crucial because I wont be overclocking it so much like I am my OCZ right now. Now my other thought was that with the higher multiplier on the 6600 or 4300 I could buy cheaper ram for my wife and then use my ocz at a lower bus speed but with a higher multiplier on either 6600 or 4300. What should I do?!?
e6300 @ 3.0ghz
2gig OCZ Plat 1:1
Evga 680i
Zalman 9500
Evga 8800gts
1) Planning on a 6600 going into the system I keep for myself. Will be cooled by the Zalman I already have and the 6300 will get it's stock cooler back. Is the 6600 the way to go or could I get killer performance out of a 4300? Right now I can't max my 6300 out because of my ram. It's unstable above this clock but I can get windows to boot at 3.6.
2) Which mobo to buy. Either going to buy the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 and then put whatever processor I get for my wife on it. Or I am going to buy ASUS P5N32-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI if it's a better board than my Evga. Also is there much diff between the Asus 680i and the 650i?
3) Going to buy Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 because I currently feel that my ram is what's holding my overclock back. I have to have my timings majorly relaxed and my vdram up to 2.3 on my ocz for it to stay stable at 3.3ghz so I'm concerned with that so I'm back off to 3.0ghz and tighter timings with a more moderate 2.1vdram.
So currently I'm thinking 6600 with the asus 680i (if it's better than the evga) with the crucial. Or would the 6300 reach those higher setting with the crucial because I wont be overclocking it so much like I am my OCZ right now. Now my other thought was that with the higher multiplier on the 6600 or 4300 I could buy cheaper ram for my wife and then use my ocz at a lower bus speed but with a higher multiplier on either 6600 or 4300. What should I do?!?
e6300 @ 3.0ghz
2gig OCZ Plat 1:1
Evga 680i
Zalman 9500
Evga 8800gts
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