2.4a or 2.8a

[cold_ice]

After my 3.2E ES i need a cheaper toy for my dry ice benching:p: My aim is 5ghz with dry ice, or if this is not possible LN2.
I don't know if I should take the 2.4a or the 2.8a. Some Japanese guys are reaching amazing clocks with the 2.8a, but charlie's CPU was not as good afair. Most of the 2.4a Prescotts are very good overclockers, but I've never seen an "amazing" chip.
So which CPU should I buy?

[[-Stash-]]

Grab both, OC the hell out of them, then ebay the worse chip ;)

[JWB]

If you are going to use LN2 get te 2.8A because the Japanese ocers are getting high overclocks because they are using LN2 on it whereas no one here has. Charlie used dri ice so he would not have gotten as far. So I would say the 2.8A with LN2.

[cold_ice]

Originally posted by [-Stash-]
Grab both, OC the hell out of them, then ebay the worse chip ;) I must save some money for my phase change projects ;)
I'm going to take the 2.8a, hope I get a good chip

[charlie]

They're all GOOD chips..... :D
If you look at the 2.4A's a lot of the top LN2 OC'ers got low numbers... the 2.8A is much stronger. My DI rig is limited to about 4600mHz on a Pressie, both my 3.0E and my 2.8A ended up with nearly the exact same OC. LN2 is neccessary to hit 5gHz.

C

[cold_ice]

5ghz with dry ice will be marvellous, nobody was able to do this, I'm right?
I love dry ice because it's cheap, not hard to handle, and cold :p:
LN2 is harder to handle, and it's not easy to get it here.

[jan]

Originally posted by charlie
They're all GOOD chips..... :D
If you look at the 2.4A's a lot of the top LN2 OC'ers got low numbers... the 2.8A is much stronger. My DI rig is limited to about 4600mHz on a Pressie, both my 3.0E and my 2.8A ended up with nearly the exact same OC. LN2 is neccessary to hit 5gHz.

C

Maybe your board was the limiting factor?

[charlie]

Originally posted by jan
Maybe your board was the limiting factor?

Maybe... but it was at different FSB speeds.... 309 on the 3.0 and 221 on the 2.8A

Dunno'

C