Dont disagree and the MB will be good for some time yet - I still have an E6850 but 4 cores better than 2 going forward - it wont just be for video rendering/editing - future games are going to be designed around multithreading. They give out a fair bit of heat when o/c but not any more than the E6600 from my experience. They need less volts for higher o/c and thats with 4 cores. The GO's are achieving 3.6 on air as the norm with around 1.4v or less with some going to 4.0GHz with later batches of GO SLACRs. Check out this thread for overclocking experiences if you are tempted cos they are cheap http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=152603Originally Posted by Fearlessleader
I think this board and chip still have a bit more to offer and as I test I will glad to give my findings. I will check the cpu with a straight edge for flat but I just thought that the polished surface helped too. Also it don't cost much but a bit of time and every little bit helps. That was why I thought lap the block the cpu and use the liquid pro, If I get 2C for each thing I just get 6c cooler. Just my 2 cents
If you are going to lap heres a nice guide - http://www.thetechrepository.com/sho...hlight=lapping
but I am sure you must have done it on the opterons unless you were popping the IHS . Flat not shiny is the primary objective -its just looks prettier after all that elbow grease as I found out -lol! Worth reading the rest of www.thetechrepository.com as it has alot of useful info - like running MBM5 under vista x64. If you have nothing else to do this is fun for improving disk resilience/performance http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848 . A lot of people discovered they had a AHCI/RAID problem on the premium with the ICH9 controller - I was lucky as my board doesnt. If you are already running AHCI it should be fine to try this.
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