Intel Penryn

[djdaface]

These new Penryn chips, quad cores with 12mb cache and 1333 bus speeds.

Are they going to work ok on a nForce 680i chipset or are they going to be for the new chipsets?

[Hosser]

I doubt the 650i or the 680i will support Penryn core CPUs. Neither will the 965/975 Intel chipsets. Wait for Penryn is my advice. By then the 680i will be a cheaper chipset anyway, so if I turn out to be wrong...

[mac124]

I can't speak for other mobo's but the Abit IN9 is quoted as 1333fsb so if thats what the Penryn cpus use then i would assume they might only need a bios flash, don't quote me on that though.

[Anonymous]

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[djdaface]

Well I already have a 680i motherboard and it says it can handle 1333 bus rates on my mobo.


As my E6600 seems a bit slow compared to the rest of my pc, I was hoping to stick a 2.9 penryn in there later this year.

[mac124]

Simple answer to that is overclock it then, assuming you havent.

[Hosser]

If you could get your hands on one of the new motherboards with Intel P35 chipset, that'd be great - fully ready for Penryn and some are DDR3 ready, also. I plan to do another upgrade at the end of this year, and as I'm AMD/ATI at the moment I'm going for Intel/nVIDIA this time. Intel P35, a Penryn CPU, DDR3 memory and a GeForce 8800/8900/8950, depending on availability, methinks.

[djdaface]

[quote:bae4aed351=\"mac124\"]Simple answer to that is overclock it then, assuming you havent.[/quote:bae4aed351]

i bought a ninja cooler to do a fat overclock but it was terrible.

So I only have a stock cooler, of which i dont dare overclock faster than 2.7

Gets hot enough as it is.

[mac124]

That a Scythe cooler?? If so they are supposed to be pretty good, what temps you getting they do run a tad warm, mine hits 60 whilst stress testing and im on watercooling.