silence wrote:The MSI and Gigabyte chipset-equivalent competitors appear to be less picky with RAM as well, if that matters to anyone.

But none of them support undervolting, right?

Vcore of 1.3 is low, VERY low. See my comment here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44140&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120&sid=3bfabc849d17402b91d3f1839319e11d Kind of makes you wonder who to trust :wink: Hehe, my Pentium 200MMX runs on less than that... I think the Celeron 2...

Just a quick Q: Undervolting is supported on both the HDMI version and the regular one, right?

The CPU on these board run at 1.3 volts that seems to be pretty high for a core 2 solo It's that high!? How did you find out the voltage, if I may ask? As you say, 1.3V for a 1.2GHz 65nm Core 2 is very high. It really shouldn't need more than 1.0V at the very most. I still haven't found a Core 2 ba...

AMDs 65nm design seems to suck relative to their excellent 90nm design, so I wouldn't choose one chip over another because of that. The Sempron LE-1250 is based on the improved G2 65nm stepping, which incorporates a much improved memory controller. Performance is apparently up to 6% better than the...

Anandtech measured a healthy power consumption decrease on Wolfdale (45nm dual core) versus Conroe.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=3069&p=4

A rough estimate of actual CPU power consumption decrease would be ~25%. Not bad.

Okay, I just got to test the E2160 in the Gigabyte board for a short time. I never found the absolute minimum, but it did manage to run stable at 2.4GHz and 1.08V. Pretty good. Although I never found the minimum, I'm certain that I wouldn't be able to go much lower than that.

Had the same problem with my Gigabyte GA-965P-S3. Anyway, the board is supposed to do 333MHz without problems, since it supports 333MHz FSB CPUs. Therefore you only need to tell them to test with such a CPU and they should also be able to hear the whine.

I am now the owner of a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H. Here's the rest of the config: Corsair HX520W (230VDC) E6600 @ 3.00GHz (333*9, 1.17V) 2GB DDR2 @ 833MHz 5-5-5-15 (1.9V) Scythe Ninja rev. B with Scythe S-Flex on 950RPM Samsung T166 320GB (HD321KJ) D-Link DWL-G520 WLAN PCI card Idle: 79W Load: 124W Using...

Forgot to mention earlier: I'll be re-running the test at the exact same frequencies but using my E6600 instead (4MB L2 instead of 1MB). Sorry dude, I have no idea how to speak the language. I just looked up Swedish on wikipedia and there was a list of common phrase :) Heheh... Thought so. Always ni...

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Åhh, är du svensk? Och varför skrev du "Jag mår bra, tack!"?

Pentium Dual Core E2160 @ 3.00GHz (9*333) 4GB DDR2-833MHz 5-5-5-15 Asus P5B Windows XP SP2 ---------- RUN1PASS1.LOG encoded 1749 frames, 81.76 fps, 1850.89 kb/s ---------- RUN2PASS1.LOG encoded 1749 frames, 81.89 fps, 1850.89 kb/s ---------- RUN3PASS1.LOG encoded 1749 frames, 81.88 fps, 1850.89 kb/s...

Just in: Pentium Dual Core E2160 (1.8GHz) I have only had time to do some initial testing so far: 3.00GHz @ 1.30V 2.40GHz @ 1.16V Sadly, the Asus P5B I'm using refuses to feed this CPU less voltage than 1.16V. I'll be getting a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H next week, so I'll get back with minimum voltage at...

As long as you have a fast enough CPU, you can play 1080P material on any motherboard. It's only if you need assistance from the onboard GPU that you need to take the motherboard into consideration. The issue of HDCP encoded output from the IGP is of course motherboard related, though. I'm not famil...

I don’t think the power consumption difference of the motherboard is really an issue here. I have a fully specified C2D desktop system (G33 chipset, IGP) that idles as low as 52W so there’s not that much room for improvement. Or are the newer AM2 chipsets significantly beating that? Phenom X4 s...

I'm about to set up a quad core HTPC and folding rig and it's hard to decide which way to go. I'm deciding between Phenom and Penryn and both seem to have their merits. I love AMD motherboards and the fact that they seem to have lower power consumption than Intel boards. At the same time, Penryn wil...

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 - Conroe (S775) stock - 1.2650V

Minimum: Haven't tried
Stock: 2.4 GHz @ 1.000V
OC'd: 3.0 GHz @ 1.175V

Best result yet?

Have you tried measuring the system power with a power meter? How did you come up with your 30W number? Yeah, I've measured my system power consumption, but that's not the data I used to come to my 30W figure. There are a couple of sites that have measured the actual power to the CPU (like Xbitlabs...

The easiest route may be to get a Conroe CPU and the undervolt it. For example, my E6600 in a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 was able to undervolt to 1.0V at the stock frequency of 2.4GHz. This likely puts the CPU at close to 30W under full load, which is pretty good when considering the performance. Not all ...

Since having owned a system like that, but with one 7900GS, I can tell you that your system will consume something in the range of 175-200W (with 80% PSU efficiency accounted for). So, there should be no problem using the 430W PSU you have.

Out of interest, couldn't a standard Sempron 64 be underclocked to 1Ghz and then undervolted to produce a close enough value? I was just about to suggest this. The answer to that question is: Yes. Take any of the new 65nm Athlon64 single core CPUs, drop the frequency to 1GHz and the voltage to 1.0V...

Just set the voltage as low as your Asus board allows (somewhere in the 1.1-1.2V range, I believe). It's highly unlikely that your CPU will object to this. For example, my E6600 needs only 1.0V to run at stock 2.4GHz.

The thing that I don't like about ASUS' P965 boards is that they don't support undervolting well. Where Gigabyte's boards can go all the way down to about 0.5V, ASUS boards allow just 1.1-1.15 as lowest voltage. My E6600 can run at stock 2.4GHz on 0.98V, which means that there's a lot of power to sp...

Doesn't the thermal spec at least mean that the Merom can survive more torture? In theory, yes. I'd say that Conroe is able to survive a good deal higher temps than what Intel is recommending, though. I could be wrong, but I don't think that Merom is manufactured using any special materials compare...

I have an E6600 running at 3GHz on 1.17V and a Ninja rev. B cooling it. I also use the supplied Scythe S-Flex on reduced voltage (~800RPM).

Idle temp is around 33C and full load on both cores using Orthos takes the temp up to 48C. Not that bad, I think.

This is one of the reasons that's holding me back from upgrading to Core 2. I'd like to know about Speedfan support and undervolting. I am wondering if there is a LGA775 motherboard similar to my DFI Ultra-D, which can drop all the way down to 0.900V and has 3 Speedfan-controllable headers. I know ...

I don't know if they are great undervolters or not, maybe they CAN be but they aren't because intel locked the bottom VID at 1.162V, at least for my e6300. I'd think the e4300 wont be allowed to go much lower either. That's a motherboard limitation (or a limitation imposed through the BIOS) and not...

I had a 65W X2 3800+ before getting my current E6600. From what I've been able to make out, the E6600 and X2 3800+ are close in terms of power consumption when running on stock settings. An E4300 is definitely going to use less power than the X2 (atleast under load). The good thing with C2D is that ...

I have a ninja and my E6300 is overclocked to 2.4ghz The highest it ever gets is about 52C when playing oblivion. It looks a little high to me. For comparison, I have an E6600 at 3GHz and it gets 50C during load and about 35C idle. This is without Speedstep and C1E. I'm using a Scythe Ninja and a 1...

I would feel uncomfortable with 60+ chipset temps. Makes me glad I got the DQ6. As far as I know, chipsets are fine to run close to 100C. Part of that is probably because they run at such low frequencies. Have you tried to run the memory in sync with the bus at 266, I mean as DDR2-533 with tighter ...