I am so excited!! I plan to overclock the heck out of it! But like other bloggers, I am not rich, and hence I do not plan to increase the voltage by much... 1.4V maybe? What do you say??
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Hey man, I have taken the time to read your post and I like your perspective.
You have to post your system specs when your system is done, then do some benches.
I like you am not rich either, but hope to get a Conroe system by or near December, luckily all I need is a new MB and Processor.
What do you think of the Abit AW9 together with the E6700?
As I said, I am not palnning on crazily OCing it. I have P5B (yes, I'm not a gamer, and hence can live with one PCIe x16 slot), and one nice feature of this board is OC profile. Essentially, I am planning on keeping two OC settings--one with stock voltage, and another with 1.4v. I will use the 1.4v only when I am going to do massive video encoding, othewise I will run it at stock voltage. From what I have read, E6700 should OC to 3.2GHz to 3.3 GHz at stock voltage without any issues. That would be massive compute power. If I could hit 3.5 GHz with 1.4v, that would be sweeeet!!
I will post my system specs when I get done with it. However, I don't see much point in publishing benches. Detailed benches of Core 2 abound. I do not even have all the apps that these benching sites talk about. Besides, what am I going to compare it with. The only other CPU I have is P4 560, and we all know E6700 will eat it for breakfast and then some. Never the less, I will write about my experience. All I care about is video encoding and transcoding...
What do you think of the Abit AW9 together with the E6700?
I am no expert in these matters, in fact I also heavily rely on AnandTech and some other friends when I have to choose components. The mobo looks good. I assume you plan to OC as well, right (otherwise you can save tons on the mobo).
Choice between E6600 and E6700 is really how much risk you want to take while OCing. 6700 will OC a bit more easily than 6600. Due to peripherals limitations, you may have to raise NB voltage and other stuff while OCing 6600. Also, you will need a much higher FSB to reach the same speed. It really depends on you. I was not able to make up my mind between the two, and finally I decided to go with 6700.
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Hey man, I have taken the time to read your post and I like your perspective.
You have to post your system specs when your system is done, then do some benches.
I like you am not rich either, but hope to get a Conroe system by or near December, luckily all I need is a new MB and Processor.
What do you think of the Abit AW9 together with the E6700?
I say be safe, and keep your E6700 where it is, it's currently the #2 desktop CPU anyways:)
As I said, I am not palnning on crazily OCing it. I have P5B (yes, I'm not a gamer, and hence can live with one PCIe x16 slot), and one nice feature of this board is OC profile. Essentially, I am planning on keeping two OC settings--one with stock voltage, and another with 1.4v. I will use the 1.4v only when I am going to do massive video encoding, othewise I will run it at stock voltage. From what I have read, E6700 should OC to 3.2GHz to 3.3 GHz at stock voltage without any issues. That would be massive compute power. If I could hit 3.5 GHz with 1.4v, that would be sweeeet!!
I will post my system specs when I get done with it. However, I don't see much point in publishing benches. Detailed benches of Core 2 abound. I do not even have all the apps that these benching sites talk about. Besides, what am I going to compare it with. The only other CPU I have is P4 560, and we all know E6700 will eat it for breakfast and then some. Never the less, I will write about my experience. All I care about is video encoding and transcoding...
What do you think of the Abit AW9 together with the E6700?
I am no expert in these matters, in fact I also heavily rely on AnandTech and some other friends when I have to choose components. The mobo looks good. I assume you plan to OC as well, right (otherwise you can save tons on the mobo).
Choice between E6600 and E6700 is really how much risk you want to take while OCing. 6700 will OC a bit more easily than 6600. Due to peripherals limitations, you may have to raise NB voltage and other stuff while OCing 6600. Also, you will need a much higher FSB to reach the same speed. It really depends on you. I was not able to make up my mind between the two, and finally I decided to go with 6700.
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