Retail BOX X6800 Stepping 6 B2

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07-17-2006, 08:35 AM
redpriest

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Originally Posted by Artmic

I have this suspicion that Intel will be cranking up Conroe speed every 6 months, in increments of 200Mhz at best... and milking this over the next 2 years at least. Until AMD does something to force Intel’s hand.

So we are talking 800-1000Mhz increase over the next 2 years :) (If we are lucky)

Good for them - I'm sitting pretty at 3.733 mhz, so I'm already "there"
07-17-2006, 11:10 AM
xgman

Quote:

Originally Posted by pcdoc1

(No chance the ES's where juiced... Can't be) :nono:

I am thinking that is excatly what went on.
07-19-2006, 11:08 PM
Artmic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franky

Kentsfield coming soon :)

True but watch them release 2.1 or 2.4Ghz quad core cpu LOL i wouldn't purchase one of those if i could OC the 6800 to at least 3.46Ghz.

Man is it me or is the entire industry messed up....... power supplies are wack, motherbaords are wacked, Cases can't fit PCI cards on them, (cough cough Stacker).... vid cards aren't compatible with some motherboards (or are they, who knows nVidia 7950/Asus)...
07-19-2006, 11:09 PM
Artmic

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Originally Posted by redpriest

Good for them - I'm sitting pretty at 3.733 mhz, so I'm already "there"

3.7 is very cool i wish i could hit that, but i'd be happy with even 3.46Ghz, with just the multiplier set higher on the bad axe board.
07-19-2006, 11:14 PM
theteamaqua

better board might help?? and more experienced OCer?? like coolaler hehe
07-20-2006, 04:50 AM
Eastcoasthandle

my only problem with this kentsfield is that all ES chips will have 4 perfectly, evenly OC'able, evenly voltaged, cores while the retail version will not. How do you speed bin 4 cores? Just think for one 1 minute here. That's a lot of wasted wafers to get 4 perfect cores each and everytime. Therefore, the probability that retail versions will have at least 1 cpu that cannot OC well is high at best. It's all in the probability baby, deal with it.
07-28-2006, 06:57 PM
[G.N.U.]Fragman

i just got a e6600 6 B2 ...i havnt got the mobo yet, but what can i expect on air ?

running tower 112 (in the beginning) on a asus p5w dh without mods..and ocz pc6400 XTC..i know u cant tell me excatly, but any good guesses would be nice.
07-28-2006, 07:38 PM
Supertim0r

3.6ghz probably :)
07-28-2006, 07:46 PM
[G.N.U.]Fragman

then ill go for 3,7 :D ...3,5-3,7 would not be bad at all....actually my first intel cpu ever.....
07-28-2006, 08:03 PM
Supertim0r

it's really fast, you'll love it ;)
07-29-2006, 08:58 AM
lowrider007

you think the OP has got it bad, the highest stable O/C I can get on my X6800 is 3.2 :( , all this last week I've tried everything to hit a stable 3.4, from lowering the the multiplier right down and ramping the fsb up and just o/c'ing via the multiplier and still no joy even upto 1.55v

X6800
Scythe Miné
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5400
BadAxe 3.4rev retail - Bios 1334
Tagan 480

Yes I know the mem is'nt the fastest but I tried lowring the speed and losening the timings of it when upping the fsb and also just o/c'ing using the multiplier which does'nt effect the ram,

I'm pretty new to o/c'ing so I don't really know what stepping the cpu is, in cpu-z it says its stepping 6 rev B2, on my cpu it says 2.93GHZ/4M/1066/05B
07-29-2006, 09:29 AM
lowrider007

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Originally Posted by brentpresley

Look into a different board. If you are new to OCing, then I doubt you are going to have the skills to tweak the BadAxe. Nothing personal, but that board is looking like it takes a LOT of expertise to get running well when overclocked.

np mate, no offence taken, do you have any recomendations on which m/b to try.
07-29-2006, 10:16 AM
berk

Gigabyte DS range. :)
07-29-2006, 11:41 AM
[G.N.U.]Fragman

or even better asus p5w DH ...its not that hard even for newbies....
07-30-2006, 02:41 PM
[G.N.U.]Fragman

btw when will a conroe core begin to get unstable (temps) about 60c or so?
07-31-2006, 02:54 AM
rob[GL]

Hehe, I can finally post in a thread about new stuffs...

Check out mine...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../loadtemps.jpg

X6800 on BADAXE

14x266 @ 1.45v

50c under load 40c idle
08-30-2006, 07:24 AM
Mr Footlong

Hi folks. I don't suppose you could tell me if there is any way of figuring out what stepping a X6800 is just from the sticker on the box is there? I am contemplating doing a trade with a friend for a sealed boxed E6700 for his X6800 and don't want to gamble on getting a more expensive, possibly worse overclocking chip. The chip is in his machine atm so I cannot read anything off the IHS.

Cheers,

Nick :).

Edit. Got a cold and brain dropped out of head. I will try to coax him into reading off CPU-Z........

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