Core 2 duo with 945P?

Bl00dFox

Bl00dFox

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I have a E6600 with a 945P-S3 motherboard. But I just found out that on the intel site it says that an E6600 needs a 965P chipset to function. Am I losing performance?
 
Nah man - it works, and everything is fine.

Im just wondering if the performance would be better if I use a 965P chipset...
 
You aren't loosing any performance. All you really lose is potentially using DDR2-800. Where ever you read you need a 965P was wrong. All you need is chipset that supports dual core (ie a 945) and has VRM11 support (voltage regulation for the CPU)
 
Thanks a million. Just one more question: does getting DDR2-800 make a difference? thanks for bearing with my noobness!
 
I got Gigabyte ga945GCMX2 -S2 motherboard with E6750 proceesor. It's fine so far, i just also don't know if i was able to maiximize its performance because if I set to load optimized defaults, CPU speed will automatically set to 2.13GHz instead of 2.66(E6570).
 
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