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saltydog806
Bowie MD
I know I can ask for and get feedback from this most wonderful site ( that's it for sucking up);D. I know that the intel 6600 quad with the go chip is better than the one without, however I don't know why. In my limited experience it seems to me that there are cpu's that have the same basic name but are constructed differently somehow. I'm not looking to get a degree though I would like to gain some knowledge. Any site or other recommendations? At this point I am most interested in the Intel 775's.
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source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3066
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The Q9300 in synthetic benchmarks has an okay lead over the Q6600. Here's some Folding benchmarks too.
My uneducated guess is that the 45nm chips would be best served on a P45 or nForce 790i board with some RAM that could push a high FSB to make up for the low multiplier.
Yeah, that last part of your post really hits the nail on the head about the 45 nm quads, Buddy J. The Wolfdales don't have problems with fsb speeds but the Yorkfields do. The low multiplier for a given clock speed on the quads makes for running high fsb speeds and older chipsets such as the P35, X38 and even the X48 don't do high fsb speeds too well with the Q9xxx series of quads. The P45 chipset would probably be best for overclocking a Q9xxx series quad, unless you go with something like an Extreme that is multi unlocked. But you will pay through the nose for them too if you buy new. I have seen some QX9650's selling in the $400-500 range lately in forum Classifieds/Trading Posts though, from people that are upgrading to i7 systems.