nope, shipping is what gets ya. The shipping was almost more than the mx-2 was. 11 and some change I think. (total)
oh well, it will help out my temps a lot.
I cant wait for my new mobo! I need to order soon I guess
Well, no luck with the bios update. Looks like I will need a new board before I can get my multi higher than 6. Everytime I boot it says, unknown cpu and lowers it to 6.
so I guess it is time to redo my heatsink, then just push it as high as possible with a 6x multi.
sorry for the double post
ok, so my temps did not improve when I redid the heatsink. I think it might be the quality of the thermal paste. There is no way that this cpu runs idle at 45C+. On tues I will work on getting it better. Then when my mobo gets here, I will be set I think. If they dont improve then, I will know something is up.
but* ntune says that my vcore is 1.49... and my temp is 15C. Wow, something is up. ehh.
Don't worry, most mobo's are having a hard time giving accurate temps with these new wolfdales. On my abit coretemp gives me 46C idle and load, and uguru gives me 26C idle and 30 C load. Everest doesn't even show my cpu temp :\.
i was going to buy the GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 motherboard, would that be a bad choice with the wolfdale? or is it just a matter of updating the bios?
(thats the mobo im getting) they said it supports the new 45nm chips and is good for overclocking, perhaps look at that? plus its cheap too (around $100)
and after further research i see that they already have a bios update to support the e8400+
ALSO: im not big on OCing so if i didnt want to overclock it, i'd be fine right? temp wise