E6420 - What chip to upgrade to maininting the same board?

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phamine

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Currently, I have a E6420 clocked to 3.2ghz on an Asus P5B Deluxe.

I'd like to upgrade to a chip that has good over clocking potential for around 200-250.

So what's hot now?

 

hUMANbEATbOX

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i would look at a e6750. unless you wanted to kick in another ~$50 and grab a q6600.

i am pretty sure you could squeeze another 200-400 more mhz out of your e6420 tho.

 

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Yea that e6420 should have more left init thats for sure i bench mine @ 4ghz

 

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phamine

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I would be able to use a Q6600 with my current board?

Yeah, my E6420 does not OC as well. 3.2 ghz @ 1.43 Vcore 5-5-5-15 running on air

 

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phamine said:

I would be able to use a Q6600 with my current board?

Yeah, my E6420 does not OC as well. 3.2 ghz @ 1.43 Vcore 5-5-5-15 running on air

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there is your prob bump that to 1.55 I bet it will oc more

 

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phamine said:

Currently, I have a E6420 clocked to 3.2ghz on an Asus P5B Deluxe.

I'd like to upgrade to a chip that has good over clocking potential for around 200-250.

So what's hot now?

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I'm currently running a 6420 in my p5b. It does pretty good but craps out around 3550 max. So I've got me a e6850 coming next week. I'm going to see what the p5b can do with it.

 

hUMANbEATbOX

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phamine said:

I would be able to use a Q6600 with my current board?

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yes of course. quads have been out for a looong time already

 

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Make sure your BIOS is 1004 or above and you can use the new CPU's as well..

 

jason4207

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You can get the x3210 Xeon Quad for $250. Try to get a G0.

 

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actually ncixus.com has the x3210 for $225....even better.

dont think i've seen any G0 server parts out in the wild yet though.

 

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I personally would go q6600.