I need some quick advice regarding CPU's.

[jrg]

Nice to see a 6 cores working well with COD. My platform is based on AMD, do you think that the game use all your 6 cores or a Phenom II x4 could do the job as well?

[danjama]

Originally Posted by jrg

Nice to see a 6 cores working well with COD. My platform is based on AMD, do you think that the game use all your 6 cores or a Phenom II x4 could do the job as well?

A lot of people on here are using the BE 965's and getting great results, so four cores are just as good my bet (in fact, a lot of people say the extra two cores are irrelevant in gaming right now).

Good to hear from you AMD boys. I won't feel as bad if they refuse my return now.

[danjama]

Can anyone advise me of the difference between the H67 and P67 ii55 motherboards? Did the H67 boards have the disintegrating Sata port issue?

[Troll2k]

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

[sg1221]

I run RoF , CoD black ops , Crysis all maxed settings and have excellent FPS , CoD runs quite well on medium to high settings and I'm sure my video card and the lack of optimisation of the game is the only reason I can't max it too.
I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
So you should be fine either way

sg

[danjama]

Originally Posted by sg1221

I think a whole lot of us have extreme overkill on our processors these days and
CoD has barely used the cores we have.
sg

Seems about right, we all want more than we need!

[danjama]

Originally Posted by Troll2k

All the first run 1155 boards had the Sata issue.The new boards out should have the new chips.Most manufacturers will say B3 on the box or literature.That is the new revision.

As far as I know the only difference between the h67 and the p67 is that the h67 has an integrated video port.No onboard video on the p67.


Note:
If you are looking at an 1155 board I assume you were able to return your other parts.

Ok mate thanks for clarification! Yes, items have been returned, they were ok with the box being opened, just waiting for refund of cash. Browsing for parts in the meantime - really would like a 1155 motherboard with 4 memory slots, 2 pcie x16 slots, and vitally a firewire port at the rear IO. Firewire is hard to find these days. Happily, the 2500k is pretty cheap, a real bargain, as is Ram ( Corsair £32 at oc.co.uk right now).

[patrat1]

Originally Posted by danjama

Can anyone advise me of the difference between the H67 and P67 ii55 motherboards? Did the H67 boards have the disintegrating Sata port issue?

you need a p67 board if your going to over clock.

which you will, since its childs play to do it with a i5 2500k.

im running mine at 4.5 ghz with the stock cooler. of course my case is loaded with huge fans, so for now im getting by with stock cooling. when the hot weather hits, i may have to get a better cooler or tone down my OC.

[garengarch]

Originally Posted by patrat1

you need a p67 board if your going to over clock.

which you will, since its childs play to do it with a i5 2500k.

im running mine at 4.5 ghz with the stock cooler. of course my case is loaded with huge fans, so for now im getting by with stock cooling. when the hot weather hits, i may have to get a better cooler or tone down my OC.

really? mine hit 97 degrees with the stock cooler @ 4.32 ghz.
that was auto overclock.
turbo is now disabled until better cooler arrives heh

[patrat1]

the hottest mines got so far is 68 degrees C im using the auto OC also.

97 C is way to hot imo.