1333 FSB Mod, Confirmed To Be Working By Me.

[ChronoReverse]

Just tried the front page mod with my G0 Q6600. No effect in my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P =(

(and yes it's silver conductive ink not AS5 lol)

[baron_iv]

This worked perfectly on my MSI P6N Diamond board with the Q6600 (B3 stepping). It didn't give me any additional headroom for my overclock, still stuck at 2.73ghz on that POS board. On a happy note, the same CPU runs at 3.13ghz on my Asus P5K Deluxe.

You do get a 2-3% performance boost by having the 1333mhz bus vs 1066mhz, according to the review here:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...duo-e6850.html

They show the identically clocked 1333mhz and 1066mhz CPUs and the 1333mhz wins in every benchmark by 1-4%. I really can't explain why, I mean there's a bit more bandwidth there, but we're not talking anything earth-shattering. You'd be better off to overclock everything to 1333mhz and get the benefit of lower latency and more bandwidth with your overclocked memory than just running the higher FSB alone. I guess to each his/her own though.

[Hutch]

This worked perfectly on my MSI P6N Diamond board with the Q6600 (B3 stepping). It didn't give me any additional headroom for my overclock, still stuck at 2.73ghz on that POS board. On a happy note, the same CPU runs at 3.13ghz on my Asus P5K Deluxe.

You do get a 2-3% performance boost by having the 1333mhz bus vs 1066mhz, according to the review here:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...duo-e6850.html

They show the identically clocked 1333mhz and 1066mhz CPUs and the 1333mhz wins in every benchmark by 1-4%. I really can't explain why, I mean there's a bit more bandwidth there, but we're not talking anything earth-shattering. You'd be better off to overclock everything to 1333mhz and get the benefit of lower latency and more bandwidth with your overclocked memory than just running the higher FSB alone. I guess to each his/her own though.

Clock the same cpu to 333mhz and drop the multi to the same as the native 1333mhz FSB cpu and it'll outperform the E6850/E6750/E6550. It will run at a tighter chipset strap, depending on the board.