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Given your CPU choices, it is obvious that you are ignoring i7, I |
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suspect beacise the price. |
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In that case, I think you should reconsider AMD. I have a couple of |
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Phenoms, which work really fine with Gentoo. |
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However, if its lower frequency and smaller cache of 9850 and 9950 is |
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what bothers you, you should consider Deneb, which is to come out any |
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day now. |
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3GHz model should be quite cheap, it has 6MB of L3 which is not far from |
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Intel's 8Mb and it also allegedly overclocks very well. |
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People are getting to 4.4GHz on aircooling, which means machine should |
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behave rock stable at 3.5GHz+ with really good cooler, like Thermalright |
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IFX-14. |
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Boards are relatively good and inexpensive, as well as DDR-II RAM is |
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these days. I have stuffed 8GB in my box for something like €150. |
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I have Foxcon A7DA-S, but Biostar models seem to be cheaper and record |
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OC was done on such board ( 6.3 GHz on LN2), so it should perform well. |
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Also, having a true QC can mean something with optimised multithread code. |
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Intel's i7 is fine, but quite expensive and its smaller i5 won't be on |
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the market for some time, and getting old C2D or Q2D seems a bit of |
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waste these days... |
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Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Hi, guys! |
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> I've decided to get an Intel based box, but I've not been following |
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> closely the hardware development for more than 5 years. Another |
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> trouble is that most of the people I can ask don't use Gentoo and they |
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> miss the point of "much compiling". So, I need your help. |
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> 1) CPU: |
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> model,CPU Freq,FSB Freq,cache,technology |
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> E8400, 3.00GHz, 1333MHz, 6MB, 45nm |
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> Q8200, 2.33GHz, 1333MHz, 4MB, 45nm |
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> Q6600, 2.40GHz, 1066MHz, 8MB, 65nm |
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> Which one? (please, consider overclocking). |
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> On the local market those are in the same price range and I'm going to |
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> take Q6600 for the bigger cache (8MB). Is that the correct choice? |
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> 2) Main board. |
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> I was advised to get Asus P5K Premium (P35, ICH9) for Q6600. The thing |
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> is there are models from the P5Q series (like P5Q3) which have a newer |
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> chipset (P45, ICH10) but the same price. I can't understand why should |
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> I choose the premium mobo even it's an older model. Please, advise. |
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> 3) DDR2 |
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> 600,800 or 1066? The thing confusing me is that the newer CPUs run at |
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> 1333MHz and the older (Q6600) at 1066. So, which DDR2? |
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> 4) Overclock |
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> I intend to overclock the system but not extremely. I've been told |
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> Q6600 would go up to 3GHz w/o any trouble. Is that true? How high |
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> would the other two CPUs go w/o additional cooling and compromising |
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> the stability? |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> Best regards, |
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> Daniel |
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