Just upgraded my system from an opty 170 to an E6420 and damn what a difference. My opty I had overclocked to 2.5ghz and it ran fast but with the E6420 I was able to hit 3.2 ghz dual prime stable 10+hours and it is a fricken beast.
Only question is CPUZ shows my FSB at 1600mhz I would assume that means DDR2800.
Northbridge on the gigabyte DS3 board gets damn hot I mean blister finger hot but havn't had any ill effects from it yet and plan to mount a slot cooler with a cowl to sap that heat outta the case.
System:
Thermaltake Shark full tower case
C2D E6420@3.2ghz
2gig G.Skill DDR2 800
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo
2x80gig SATA2 raid 0
X1800XT (soon to be 8800GTS holding off on anything faster until there are actual directx 10 games out.)
Only question is CPUZ shows my FSB at 1600mhz I would assume that means DDR2800.
Northbridge on the gigabyte DS3 board gets damn hot I mean blister finger hot but havn't had any ill effects from it yet and plan to mount a slot cooler with a cowl to sap that heat outta the case.
System:
Thermaltake Shark full tower case
C2D E6420@3.2ghz
2gig G.Skill DDR2 800
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo
2x80gig SATA2 raid 0
X1800XT (soon to be 8800GTS holding off on anything faster until there are actual directx 10 games out.)