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ish718:Well, look at the bright side, there is no ''real'' performance loss going from a Q9300 to a Q6600. Only advantage it has is power consumption and heat Confirmed.  It consumes less and is clocked 100MHz higher.  It also comes with a bit of a nasty anti-overclocker feature: locked FSB multipler.  See ...

I submitted the order Sunday night.  Monday my credit card was charged, and later that evening all equipment was shipped.  I'm expecting delivery today (boy, is NewEgg always this quick? I'm impressed!) I'd like to continue documenting my experiences here.  Opinion from all: Is it better to start a new thread, or continue ...

Thanks HOGHAULER.  I'm getting some of the same from other forums.  So now I'm looking at about 700w to give me the necessary ''headroom''.  Originally, I was thinking that with cascaded startups, the HDDs won't be drawing that much (they settle out at about 6w ea. once at full speed). The DFI forum also mentioned some past ...