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May 11, 2007 12:01:23 AM

Alright, I need quite a few things that I need to know since the main thing is about the cooler/heatsink I'm posting it over here.

My Rig:

Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @ 2.40 GHz
Asus P5W-DH Deluxe
4x512MB Cosair XMS2 Xtreme Memory 6400 @ 800MHz
300 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768MB

Now let me start my questions.....

1. I want to overclock my processor and I'm looking for a good heatsink/cooler that would cost around 30-40 USD, but I want something that don't have a back plate to it and gets the job done. I don't want to take out the motherboard and stuff to put a heatsink.

2. If I set my ram at 400MHZx2 = 800MHz and my FSB to 334 because I just want to overclock to 3.0GHz, would this give me 4:5 ratio?

3. When I take my processor to 3.0GHz would it give me the exactly same performance as the X6800 conroe?

Thanks for taking your time to read and answering my questions.

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May 11, 2007 12:12:30 AM

I'll answer 1 and 3, not entirly sure about 2.

1) Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, $35 at newegg.

3) Nope, it'll be slightly faster, 3ghz is more then then 2.93ghz. :) 

Question, why don't you want to take the mobo out of the case? I've heard that alot over the past few months, and I can't figure out why people would choose a lesser performing hsf just because it requires a mobo removal. For me it takes about 5 mintues to remove the mobo, disconnect the cables, remove the 9 screws, and lift.
May 11, 2007 12:15:18 AM

Lets just say I'm too lazy haha I had the whole hardware sitting with me for a whole month before I put it together, so wonder if once I take out the motherboard how long it will take me to put it back.
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May 11, 2007 12:37:34 AM

Oh!, I totally forgot to ask this I still have those heatsink caps on the motherboard, the digital home thing and the Asus one on the north and south bridge should i take them off. Also I was curious should casing fans sucking in any air or all of them should be taking the air out?
May 11, 2007 1:30:38 AM

The fans should be blowing the hot air out. the cool air will seep in from all the holes in the case because of the vaccum created by the out blowing fans. If you reverse them, you are only circulating trapped warm air throughout the case.

It is much easier to install a fan when the motherboard is out of the case. Less painful also, I have thew scrapes and scratches to prove it! :) 
May 11, 2007 1:32:08 AM

Haha, man I'm going to be really really careful with stuff like this. But thanks for the info.
May 11, 2007 2:13:02 AM

Unless your planning on replacing them with somethign better, leave the heatsinks on the mobo. The SB and NB would just heat up if you took them off.
May 11, 2007 7:41:38 AM

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Also I was curious should casing fans sucking in any air or all of them should be taking the air out?

You need to balance the airflow between intake/exhaust. You should be bringing in as much air as you are pushing out.
May 13, 2007 11:38:16 AM

Quote:
1. I want to overclock my processor and I'm looking for a good heatsink/cooler that would cost around 30-40 USD, but I want something that don't have a back plate to it and gets the job done. I don't want to take out the motherboard and stuff to put a heatsink.

2. If I set my ram at 400MHZx2 = 800MHz and my FSB to 334 because I just want to overclock to 3.0GHz, would this give me 4:5 ratio?

3. When I take my processor to 3.0GHz would it give me the exactly same performance as the X6800 conroe?

Thanks for taking your time to read and answering my questions.


#1 -- Save up the extra $20 and get an Ultra-120 Extreme which is arguably the best air cooled HS. (You can add a Yates Loon 120mm fan for an additional $5). It will require you to remove the MB, but you're not going to get anything that's decent that won't have a backplate.

#2 -- I would suggest running a CPU/RAM ratio of 1:1. I've read lots of people saying that faster/slow ratios just degrade performance.

#3 -- Yes, on major difference between these models as I understand it is that lower models have locked multipliers. You can see some actual data here where there are numerous data points of q6600 and qx6700 and e6300 up to e6700 demonstrating that it's purely a function of clockrate when you're within a processor family. The other thing you'll see in there is that FSB doesn't matter, that is 9x333 is the same as 10x300.
May 13, 2007 3:41:18 PM

I donno i think its different for intel processors since they don'th ave integrated memory controller like AMD does.
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