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Dan Rutter on the Q6600 and the 680i

Post Date: 2007-10-28
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    Posted: 28 Oct 2007 at 11:02pm
 
I have enormous respect for Daniel Rutter's insight and opinion on just about everything. Check out this article that addresses overclocking the Q6600, among other things.
 
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Dan totally supports everything Kelly recommended for the build I went with. Thanks Kelly. You rock.

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He potrayed the 680i in a much less than favorable light all throughout the article it seems.
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Yes, he has some reservation about it but he also said:

If you've already got a 680i-chipset motherboard with a dual-core chip on it and less than 4Gb of memory and feel like upgrading to quad-core, then go ahead - as long as you're running the latest BIOS version, the new CPU should work perfectly well at stock speed, and it'll probably be happy with a moderate overclock too.

And, Kelly had mine OC'd to 3.0. So it looks like Kelly, Alex and the engineers really did their homework. Now I understand why they were being so conservative with OC'ing.

However, Alex announced some changes in OC'ing the 6600. Does this mean DS will be using a different motherboard and not the 680i?

Yah, I am gettinng this stuff. I am learning.
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Yes, he has some reservation about it but he also said:

If you've already got a 680i-chipset motherboard with a dual-core chip on it and less than 4Gb of memory and feel like upgrading to quad-core, then go ahead - as long as you're running the latest BIOS version, the new CPU should work perfectly well at stock speed, and it'll probably be happy with a moderate overclock too.

And, Kelly had mine OC'd to 3.0. So it looks like Kelly, Alex and the engineers really did their homework. Now I understand why they were being so conservative with OC'ing.

However, Alex announced some changes in OC'ing the 6600. Does this mean DS will be using a different motherboard and not the 680i?

Yah, I am gettinng this stuff. I am learning.
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