Posts by 2thAche

I never knew about this in all this time building Win 7 machines.

As far as swapping the Q8400 for a Q6600, don't bother with that either. You'll still need to buy a good used 775 board. Even if the G41 could run 400FSB, the voltage needed for a 65nm Q6600 would kill it. As far as using a Core 2 for...

Quote:Originally Posted by croy buy a used P45 or X58 chipset mobo if you really want to overclock your Q8400. and always play on high reso 1920x1080 to reduce the bottleneck. X58 is not compatible. X48 is probably what you mean,...

G41 is the absolute worst 775 overclocking chipset, ever. Honestly it's completely worthless. Q8400 one of the worst overclocking 775 C2Q CPUs, ever, and they ONLY way you'll get them overclocked well is on a Gigabyte EP45 UD3 series...

How did the cut go? Should be fine.

Quote:Originally Posted by Kdman  That's alot of volts, was it just for validation or is it stable?

Throw a 965 on a good 990FX and it should hit 4.2 relatively easily and will be a decent gaming proc. 6300 more OC headroom and more efficient in some apps. If you're near a Microcenter OP, there is no contest since the 3570K is $189...

For that generation it's AMD all the way, no debate needed. They OC easier, run games better and make far less heat. All that said, I don't know what games you plan to run, but only really old games will run on those procs. Even TF2...

I didn't read the whole thread but I'm guessing you guys already steered him away from the 4xxx series? Good call, 6300 or better especially for a $700 rig. As far as HT goes, I disable it for gaming. Why let a gaming thread use a...