OK, some may remember my series of posts recently about AMD x2 or Core2Duo system?
A quick brief - I had a A64 3800+ and had the option of going C2D (MORE MONEY - board/chip/RAM) or a better AMD chip (cheaper, existing RAM/board).
I bought a A64 x2 5600+ and I ran it for just over a week. My complaint with it was excessive heat and CPU fan noise (fan speed 3000+ all the time). It was a pretty quick chip though, just a bit warm and as a result, noisey.
This week I was offered a "swap" - an ASUS P5W64 WS Professional motherboard (OTT? anyone?) for my existing kit (ASUS board/3800+ chip/1GB RAM).
Feeling the need to make the jump, and wanting to spend birthday money (again!) I made the switch.
I bought some "Patriot" (aria) RAM - 2 x 1GB PC6400 800MHz. I bought the chip - Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Retail.
Anyway, so now I have an A64 x2 5600+ chip to sell on (anyone want it? PM me!) but have these new bits.
I built the system up last night, got it running. I am pretty suprised it runs at around 40DegC on idle??? The fan speed is lower though, so it isn't noisey. I've not run the processor hard yet, so I wont be able to tell you if it runs up to 55ish like the Athlon did.
BUT - the main problem (or is it a feature?) is the Vcore voltage. In the Asus Probe tool, it keeps on moving around? Alot? Regularly? It is going from around 1.33 (I think it was this?) and dropping itslef to 1.1 ish, then moving around in between. PLEASE NOTE, this is from memory. If the Vcore is wrong, that's my 27 yr old memory at fault!
So, any ideas? Is it a problem to see the Vcore bounce about? And the CPU temps is more of a bad suprise than a problem, its std. retail kit cooling, but I expected a definate lower avg running temp from the C2D, expecially at std. clock.
TIA
Alan
P.S. Sorry for the massive post