Originally Posted by Tony
The fact is this, to get the chipsets clocking high latencies have to be relaxed, so you buy a cheap low multi CPU you think all you need is a board that does 600fsb to match everyone who has a higher multi CPU, fact is thats not the case.
You guys need to move past buying the cheapest and hoping to clock it up, it may get close but performance will always be sub par as latencies on the MCH etc are relaxed so you see more like Allendale performance from a Conroe.
Ofcourse DDR3 helps as it can do silly clocks, but for DDR2 you really are wasting your time over 500fsb UNLESS you stay 1:1 and tweak a ton of registers to dial speed back in, but overall its still not as fast as staying under 500fsb.
Same for 680i, same for 975, same for 965, same for P35....Infact 975 is fastest below 450 not 490.