Best Overclocking Option

it will be ridiculously easy to overclock. its all done in the bios. if you know you are definitely going to oc then dont get the 2400. get a 1700 instead.. it will almost certainly go as high as the 2400 for a fraction of the cost. make sure you get a tbred 'b' core tho

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not if you get a tbred B and nforce 2..

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Can I assume that all new 1700+ cpus are Tbred 2?

Hyzepher

OK, I know where you can get a Tbred B for sure,
www.newegg.com sells the OEM XP2100+, its a Tbred B, they advertise as much. I just put together a system for a friend, We believe he has a 'high quality' tbred b core. I was able to take this chip to XP 2700+ levels (333FSB) and I only bumped the cpu voltage by .05 (up to 1.65 from 1.6) I bought a Volcano 7+ cooler for him it keeps the chip very cool.... ( I even got the FSB up to 195, with a little bump to 1.7volts (only a 9.5x multiplier), then I ran outa time.)
I am planning on leaving it OC'd to xp2400 with 333 fsb, its not my machine, its for a friend, I wanna make sure he has as few problems as possible.

At any rate 83$ for a guaranteed Tbred B is not a bad deal, I am pretty sure the xp1700's are Tbred B's as well, although they don't advertise it. You can also call them I believe and have them read you the numbers off the chip. Check out www.HardOCP.com, a day or so back, someone published a document up there that is very useful as far as determining what all the numbers mean, I am sure many guys around here have links to appropriate web pages as well.

Make sure you get the twinxx memory from corsair (the ultra low latency, I got him the DDR3200 twinx 512MB)