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Conroe Adaptability Broadens
Having my mower stolen may have been a mixed blessing. I had to wait on my Conroe build, but now I'm kinda - sorta glad. I was looking for a 20 gig hard drive for a 98 PC and called my buddy that has all of that stuff. We started talking Conroe. He told me that he had just installed one for a customer. I headed over to check it out. The customer supplied the CPU and my buddy told him that he wouldn't guarantee it because of the board that was in there. This thing (6400) is plugged into a board with an 865 chipset. I didn't have much time to play with it because the guy showed up to pick it up. It didn't seem much faster than a 9 series, but did function incredibly well. I think that we may soon find the C2D to be more diverse than we thought. Systems with this CPU may be more affordable.
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08-28-2006, 01:32 PM
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Yep, right you are. And at only 193 dollars for an E6300 C2D... Build away.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115005
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08-28-2006, 03:17 PM
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Why one would want an AGP board with a C2D is beyond me...kinda ruins the gaming possibilites since good gaming AGP cards are hard to find. But I suppose if it's just an office machine...
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08-28-2006, 03:21 PM
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Ya...Alot of chipsets can be modified for conroe support. Only reason why conroe needed a new set of boards was due to a updated bios and different voltage regulation on the boards.
Namely the VRM11 Standard... Current boards which were made for the power hungry Intel pentium D's and P4's just couldnt supply steady or low enough power to c2d. Which had much lower voltage requirements. So theoritacally(sp?) some mods and replaced pot's and capacitors could make alot if not any intel chipset compatible... But I mean budget wont really help with getting one of those older agp+ddr boards. With agp and ddr prices soo high. I guess if you already got some real nice ddr or a rare high performance agp card...it might be worth it... =/ I believe aopen and now asus have released a few agp + ddr and pcie+ ddr boards. Aopen being the latter...
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08-28-2006, 08:00 PM
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O.K. This is what I found out when I came home from work: It was an Asus board. In order to make the C2D functional, it had to be a 2.5 L RAM and a Video Card had to be used. That's all I know for now. I don't intend to spend 193.00. I plan to spend more. I don't intend to use an old P4 style board either. I just thought that it was quite interesting that it worked.
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08-28-2006, 09:04 PM
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08-29-2006, 01:38 PM
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with using an old retrofitted AGP chipset if you aren't a hardcore gamer. Using an 865 makes a LOT of sense to me if you simply need a fast general use computer. Yes, standard DDR is getting expensive, but all you need is value ram.
A good compromise is a retrofitted 945 chipset. |
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