P4c question.

[XafGoat]

I'm about to make an intel procressor purchase as i have an Ic7-g and and all the rest of the components and want to upgrade on my 2500+. My question is is it worth it too pay extra for the retail version(ie the 3 year warranty) of the intel cards and whether i should go with the 2.4c, 2.6c or 2.8c. I plan on overlocking wth some 3500 hyperx ram and i am not sure what i would end up getting the best results with. The 2.8c is about a 90 bucks more than the 2.4c and the 2.6c is about 30 more.

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[pIII_Man]

i would go for the 2.6...it will yeild higher overclocks with your memory...

I would get the retail version...that way you get the nice warantee...


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[XafGoat]

Yeah i was sort of thinking along those lines, monarch computers has a nice price on a retail one for 210 with free shipping and no tax. And thanks for being so dang helpful, every question ive asked you've replied with something useful.

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[slvr_phoenix]

Well since Intel (unlike AMD) allows you to use any cooler you want on a retail chip and keep your retail waranty, that's a big plus. I mean a waranty <i>is</i> a handy thing to have.

However OCing the chip <i>does</i> void the waranty, so there is that to consider.

Then again a not so honest person might OC a chip and then lie and say it was run at stock and dishonestly try to get a voided waranty honored should something go wrong. I don't condone such an action of course, but what you do with a CPU is not my business...

And I also support the 2.6GHz verison for OCing. It's what I currently own ... for some completely unrelated reason...

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[pitsi]

I am sorry jumping in to this discussion but I have a small question. What kind of results should be expected by overclocking a 2.6c? Also, I am aware that you can pick good overclocking Bartons for example by looking at the code on the top of the CPU. But what about Intel? Does every chip overclock the same? Can you pick out the best overclocking chips by some way? Or is it just luck?

 

[pIII_Man]

not all chips overclock the same...

I do not know of any way to find a good chip...with the pII's i remember the costa rica chips were the ones to get cause they had faster cache...

I bet if you look hard you will find that chips from a certain fab do the best...


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[HardWareBoss]

I have 2.4C IS7 HyperX PC 3500 2 x 512 OC to 3.0 with stock Hsf.

 

[HardWareBoss]

P4 2.4C I OC to 3.0 with stock Hsf. You can get to 3.5 with changing stock HSF. My guess with 2.6C 3.7