The first representatives of stepping C2 chipset Intel P965 was the Asus motherboard. They successfully were overclocked to 500 MHz along the bus without special efforts, and when desired it is possible to get as high as 600 MHz on the system bus. between out readers was formed the impression, that only Asus motherbord can propose to users the newest stepping C2 of chipset P965.Actuality, the passage to the use new stepping must began this month in all other producers. The question was how soon, and on what board will appeare on stepping C2 .
The motherboard Gigabyte on base chipset Intel P965 rapidly found popularity among Conroe overclocker- due to its operational appearance on the market and its good overclocking capability, which was followed by the reasonable price. On the pages of forum XtremeSystems.org in the beginning of September appeared the evidence about the existence of Gigabyte 965p-dq6 in the version on stepping C2 chipset Intel P965. without the modification of stock cooling the bus of the system was succeeded to reach 600 MHz .
Using other processors the system bus overclocking limit can be different, but similar stabile results will encourages. Judging by everything, soon will show up stepping C2 from motherboard Gigabyte 965p-ds3, which enjoyed special popularity between owners of Core 2 duo E6xxx processors. will new board on the base of chipset stepping C2 related to the new revision?, we don't know.
Many was confused by the screen shot Cpu- z versions 1.35, which show stepping C1 chipset P965- this utility will identify stepping C2 only in the versions from 1.36 and newer. Related Products :
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