Quote Originally Posted by Pandamonia
i get what ya saying.

there are 3 things to consider.

1) Every CPU produced so far will be off same waffer its to early to bin the good and bad ones. so my E6600 maybe as good or better than the X6800.

2) What if my E6600 is stable as houses but i cant see if it will go higher because the mobo wont let me! - that will really annoy me.

3) my E6600 cost me 215GBP the E6700 is 411GBP

i Already have after market Air cooling, and thinking about chilled water cooling. I also have Pc8000 OCZ titanium VX 44412 ram which i bought so i could run a high FSB better.

The hunt for a high fsb mobo has been goin on since the Bad axe was lauched.

there are 100 posts all asking max FSB of different mobo's for the same reason i am.

if you pay 180GBP for a "Delux" mobo, you want it to do better than the 104GBP with FSB.

problem is the DS3 for 104GBP isnt very feature rich.

i want to clock my cpu as high as it will go. not as high as my mobo will go.
I see what you are saying but if the performance is the main factor what are you missing when you get a max, stable OC of 3.0 vs 4.0? Although I haven't seen it with E6600 I have with the E6400 and that's deminishing returns (can't find the link at the moment but it was posted in this forum). At some point you will reach a max OC and yield no better performance then a heavy OC.
Please examine that when you do achieve your desired OC. Performance is still key when OCing.