On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:33:38 GMT, James Paraskeva
wrote:

Peter Harrington wrote:
I'm thinking of upgrading and overclocking. I read a review that said that
Gigabyte MoBos can unlock Bartons without any hardware modification with
Easy Tune 4. Is this true for all Bartons?

My other question is would I be better off OC'ing a Barton 2600+ ($100) or
3000+ ($200). My main objective is number crunching speed. Would the 3000+
be a waste of money or will it hit a faster speed or the same speed as
2600+? I'm planning on keeping the PC 2700 RAM and looking at the 7N400L
MoBo.

TIA,

Pete


better off oc'ing a 2500 @ 11*200 @ 1.65V

Mine won't do it at 1.65. It only became prime95 stable around 1.775
with MBM showing 1.86 vcore. A7N8X Rev2 DX. Diode runs 48-50C working
hard so I think it's fine. Zalman HSF so it's even fairly quiet. Can
hardly hear it over the 4 case fans, 2 PSU fans, and VGA fan.