-----I currently am not helping anyone with my computer but I was doing the SETI thing for years. They went to BIONC and I am not to happy about it's stability. So for now I am just running idle at idle. However the new Nvidia card are supposed to be able to use the fold programs so you use your regular processor and then the beast in the graphics card (In my case a 8800GTX with 768 of ram) which I still have to find on sale (Good luck).
-----psyshack is your E6600 on an intel 975X platform? Have you seen any benchmarks that made you go with that over the 650I or other chipsets? The 680i motherboards are running in the mid 200's, which is pricey but I think worth it in the long haul due to its Quad Core capability.
I use to crunch Seti. Got tired of what amounts to deep space mapping. Moved over to the Fold. I know in folding you can use ATI cards to fold on. But nothing yet with Invidia.
I run my conroes on P965 boards. The 975's IMO arent over all as good. They seem to have maybe better native raid. But other than that,, not worth it IMO. Im not sold on the invidia chipsets yet. They have had alot of pesky problems with them. If the referance design is followed there have been alot of raid issues and other insane stuff. Also they make alot of heat. There northbridge gets HOT. Also with current Kentsfield quad cores they dont overclock very well. The i680 bios is a overclockers dream for the most part. Tweakage city!!!!! The none referance boards seem to work better if the bios is done right. Im looking into Gigbytes i680 board for maybe a run at a good gaming rig with a E6600. But seeing that Im not a big gamer. It would basicly be a fancey folding rig and benchmark rig. Thats alot of bucks for a digital toy... LMAO.
I was farting around with my e6600 a couple of weekends ago. Ran some super pi 32m pass's. At my rock stable folding OC I was at the 15 min. mark running one or two cores. And thats with loose mem timings of 5-5-5-15. My cheap ram wont tighten up unless I drop the OC. And that wont happen. Ubber fast mem timings seem to have less to do with over all system speed than they use to. Take my AMD XPM-2500 on a Abit NFS. Its like night and day between cache 3 and cache 2 timings. Also T1 is quicker than T2 id your ram can hang. I fell in love with Patriot DDR-400 stuff. Way OC'ed at 2-2-2-5, T1 its snappy. That old AMD is still folding 24/7 @ 2.4 ghz 24/7.
If all else fails. Have fun with your puters. My moto is if it wont OC,,, Its a trash can baby.
