First is a E6600 on a Gigabyte DQ6, 1 gig of cheap-o Kingston DDR-800. Its overclocked on air cooling to a very comfy 3.46 ghz. Big Typhoon is cooling it with a Antec 120mm fan. At 100% cpu load Folding @ Home 24/7 running Winblows XP with the Folding happening in VMware/linux shell 52c.
Second is a E6400 on a Asus stripper A5B I think it is. With Patriot cheap-o 1 gig kit of DDR-667. Its on a wonderfully stable 3.40 ghz overclock. I have it running on a native Linux install. With a dual boot to winsucks. It is also Folding 24/7 in Linux with max temps of 48c. Its a better Oc'ing cpu. Less voltage needed to kick its teeth out. Its being cooled with a Cooler Master Hyper 48 with a High speed 92mm fan.
Both machines are runnning 7600GT video cards. Im not a big gamer. And pretty much real standard stuff as far as harddrives and optical drives.
These cpu's and the platform in general is kick arse. AMD has nothing in current production that will touch them. And its looking like there is nothing coming that has the gonads these Conroe's have. Intel will have a new dual core and a real quad core out by the end of the year that should be another HUGE step forward.
If your thinking about upgrading or buying a new machine. Go dual core. Its amazing! If you know your way around windblows or the nix you can do some impressive stuff with them. Given the programs you use, can use two cores. Straping the cores together is amazing in some Linux stuff... Like Folding @ Home in SMP.
For gaming,,, benchmarks,,, even day out and day in stuff. I can run the e6600 up to a stable 3.70 ghz and the e6400 to 3.55 ghz. My current overclocks are for the 24/7 100% cpu loads the run at.
This is the single best over all platform upgrade Ive ever seen in the computer world bar none.....
