CyberDruid

Well any of the 680i are probably good--since the voltage requirements are so low the 4 phase PVM of those Nvidia chipset mobos will not be a prob.

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saturn2187

hi i just bought this 2180 with the Gigabyte GA P35 ds3l motherboard and i'm having some difficulty OCing. I never have OCed before but it seems every time i change the FSB to 333 within the BIOS, some setting keeps pushing it back to 200 once Windows starts. Any ideas on how to remedy this situation? THanks a million!

Ben the OCer

That's a fail safe thing, it means your OC was not even stable enough to post (so it reverted back to default). Put it to the highest setting that does not make it revert back to default. Then stability test it with Orthos (for 12+ hours).

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CyberDruid

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=160067

I knew these chips had some guts

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1337guy

Amen to that!
They OC nicely!

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linskingdom

That's amazing.

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djrazz

Funny thats not true at all. Geting your facts straight before posting is always a good idea.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=937&chart=419

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=937&chart=416

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=937&chart=441

and it goes on and on.

Though the difference between the two comparred not always is big, its there. And its even a 1.9 ghz x2 since there arent any 1.8's at toms.

So the X2 is NOT better than the E2160. Maybe because the X2 have same amount of smaller L2 cache, at thoose speeds.

The Hundred Gunner

I was wondering about what all those people were talking about, how they all said "might as well get X2s instead of P D-Cs.

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