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P35 Obsolete?
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I'm running on a uni student budget, so I'm hopefully looking not to upgrade the motherboard if possible, how far can I OC that chip with the P35? Also would there be other chips that would OC better with P35 and is a good deal right now?
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I have a p35 a q6600, and you are gauranteed an oc of 3-3.2ghz on most mid range p35 boards, i hear that the p35 and quads go very nicely together
My q6600+Ga-p35-Ds3p is awsome! 3.2 on air,
the ga-p35-xxx series are dirt cheap and amazing oc'ers
My q6600+Ga-p35-Ds3p is awsome! 3.2 on air,
the ga-p35-xxx series are dirt cheap and amazing oc'ers
It's worth a shot to keep your current P35 board and drop in a Q9550. See how high you can overclock the Q9550 on that. If you aren't satisfied with the results, then get yourself a P45 based board. A P35 board might still get you some decent FSB even with a 45nm Quad.
If money isn't too tight you might want to consider going with an i7 build, since you are already talking about spending money on a new cpu and board.
If money isn't too tight you might want to consider going with an i7 build, since you are already talking about spending money on a new cpu and board.
That's another good option. Q6600's are going cheap in the classifieds from time to time. They can be had for $130 or less. Good ones can do 3600 pretty easily. If you don't need a quad core, you could go with an E8400. That should clock pretty well on a P35 board.
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I have a gigabyte P35 board in my sons rig, it will clock the E8400 up to 4.0GHz but nothign higher, the bios is limited for high FSB and not many options for volts...
Q9950 is not the best choice of chip for that board imo, a dualie would be better choice and much cheaper a decent E8400 chip will run 4.0GHz easy on that board
Q9950 is not the best choice of chip for that board imo, a dualie would be better choice and much cheaper a decent E8400 chip will run 4.0GHz easy on that board
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