possibly use a tool to make sure its expanded and clipped properly on the back. THIS would definitely solve the problem. But can it be done without destroying the adapter? The former of the cases you described was the case - it is plopping out the motherboard and hanging loosely, only half-fixed on...

Good evening, I am finally ready to build up my first machine on my own and so far I was rather successful. But, after two attempts, I see myself in a quite desperate situation. The coolor won't fit properly. I got an GIGABYTE GA-965SP-S3 mainboard and the menioned cooler. I can plug it onto the boa...

MC FLMJIG wrote:1/2 the cache and it's shared.

If you were to OC a 6300 to 6600 speeds they would be pretty much the same becasue of the OC. They 6300 would probably beat it out.

So it seems as if it has power enough for the Linux desktop of the way beyond future. Enough for me!

MC FLMJIG wrote:Allendales are pretty much lower end Conroes.

Just like Venice, san diegos for 939, etc, etc...

Well.. is their performance really THAT much cut?

You miss the fact that the E6600 has double the cache size compared to the E6400. This significantly increases performance, for sure.

The overclocking king is still the E6300 as far as I know. I have seen people running it at 3,63 GHz which is quite sharp double the original scale.

Sorry for double posting, but I just wanted to post some information and too ask some questions which are still yet to find an appropiate solution. My 'shopping cart' now consists of: Case Antec P150 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 CPU & Cooler Intel Core2Duo E6300 1,86GHz Scythe Ninja Rev. B Memory...

Hmh.. I will try it out, but this computer is a pest concerning sound, it's quite the opposite of quiet, so I will place it outside of my room. I don't know if it makes any sense as I have already begun to buy the parts of my new machine. I am in need of money so my old machine will be sold regardle...

I have now run memtest 86+ for seven hours, 27 times pass and it was flawless. Ain't that enough of a proof?

Concerning C2D: I am intending to use Arch with that box. They provide the 2.6.18-Kernel so it should be no problem.

@klankymen: Depends on which time zone you live in. Here it was about 7:00 pm when I did that posting. I would rather buy a HDD with 10k rpm and 16MB cache than spending the money for a laptop hard drive. The performanche difference should be quite a lot. @kesv: I got some GF6200, passively cooled, ...

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Core 2 Duo E6300 165€ Scythe Ninja to silently cool the CPU 37€ I think a 7300GS should be enough for your needs 53€ p150, one of the best cases around, comes with a nice and quiet power supply 145€ so far that's 400€, add about 80 for a motherboard, 100 for ram, 30 for a dvd drive and 40...

Thanks for the posting. I had a talk about the influence of the RAM speed on the overall performance and it's rather obvious that DDR2-533 is enough for deskop usage. I won't move away from buying a Core2Duo. I do not like prebuilt systems that much so I will build it all up by myself. Here comes th...

Good evening, I am in more or less urgent need of a new workstation as my old one keeps freezing and after that destroying all my data storaged on my hard disk. It really consumes my nerves beyond the extent I am wanting to bear it so I will buy a new workstation (after having this one sold). I woul...