bcoz it's very new ler.. still not available in lyp

btw i got ur receipt already

it's normal for them to hijack the price, summore they dun have competitor yet and it is pre order..

i believe the 680i SLI board is good, managed to hit higher fsb than 965 (and 975 of course) but i'm not sure if it is worth upgrading unless u wanna do SLI or u wanna oc ur fsb kaw kaw

i dunno if i'll be buying any 680i board or not.. coz rite now asus p5w dh is the best c2d board i ever used..



This post has been edited by irenic: Nov 19 2006, 06:43 PM

in terms of FSB overclocking, yes p5b d is better but clock to clock p5w dh is just much faster.. and since 975x chipset is older and more matured, it is more stable and solid than the newer 965 chipset.

fsb oc means u overclock ur fsb. while we alwiz increase fsb to overclock, but for some people who has extreme or unlock processor (like amd FX series, intel c2d x6800), they can just change the multiplier so that their fsb remains at stock.

for eg,

x6800 u can either choose 266x14 or 465x8 to reach 3.7ghz..

but for e6300, u have no choice but need to oc the fsb up till 531x7 to reach 3.7ghz.

so in this case, i believe 680i board is good to those who believe they need a board that can allow them to reach higher fsb in order to allow them to reach higher clockspeed.

and why in earlier day of c2d, people kept saying 975x is good for conroe and 965 is good for allendale?

act bcoz 975 board cant go as high fsb as 965 does.. so with conroe, which has bigger multiplier than allendale, u can still reach high clockspeed.. but with 965, it is actually suit well with both conroe n allendale..

and yes, higher fsb means u can oc ur ram more... plus nforce board allows ram to run at 1T unlike Intel board who keeps the ram at 2T.

but from xbitlabs review, it seems 975 chipset is a better choice than 680i board, well for now..

This post has been edited by irenic: Nov 20 2006, 02:44 AM

yeah it is cheaper than 2 processors.. and it's glue style does limited the performance.. same case as pentium D..

but for ur work, i believe this proc suits u very well

This post has been edited by irenic: Nov 21 2006, 07:58 PM

beastX, why dont u just buy the xeon? issit using a diff socket?

yeah low end quad core seems interesting..

wow! at last the abit reaches ur hand~ so how issit?

so far i see overall results for 680i sli mobos used by XS user is not really great.. and many think it not worth an upgrade unless u wanna do SLI.

ds3 and E6400.. i recommend u to buy these simply bcoz of E6400. I used E6300 before and multiplier 7 is just too low. u need a powerful ram to hit high clock for ur c2d.. let say u wanna hit 3.5ghz, then u need to have ram that can do 500fsb while with E6400, u just need to have a ram that capable to do 438 fsb to do 3.5ghz..

gaming temp is not really a load temp..

ahaks.. i thought u buy it after i recommend u this board

erk .. proc of coz can support 1066fsb .. just memory ddr1000 and above is not officially support, but still can use.

the biostar is definitely the best 965 chipset mobo i ever used.

well then aim for it! i see ur E6400 oced pretty well

hihi.. so which one u like most, biostar or ur current abit?

my new toy ..

This post has been edited by irenic: Dec 20 2006, 03:15 AM


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RM900 hehe .. u might get lower price if many shop at lyp have them

i dunno.. so far i just tested my max stable clockspeed.. and so far i can say it is on par with my asus p5w dh dlx

reserved to someone.. most probably will cod tonite


well not for this xbx2


i bet he mentioned bout intel original board.


This post has been edited by irenic: Dec 20 2006, 01:01 PM

LOL.. issit so hard to understand? he said that he thought intel board cant oc, is locked.. then the other guy asked him if cant oc why he can oc till 3ghz..

so i said to the 2nd guy that the 1st guy mentioned bout INTEL board with intel chipset, not gigabyte board with intel chipset..

i even mentioned before that this new xbx called xbx2 is a good overclocking board.

stimes it's just a need to test a new thing..

another good thing bout this intel board is it's very stable and no double restart.. all my previous boards did double restart (ds3,ds4,dq6,biostar 965pt, asus p5b dlx, asus p5w dh dlx)..
and summore if overclocking fail, u just need to switch off psu for around 10secs then it will revert the bios back to default.

default.

biostar is way better than gigabyte s3 for sure

ape aku lak quad core too extreme lor