ceremorphosis

My gaming PC is up and running like a champ. In the end, I chose more cores over higher clock speed and went with the quad core Q6600 . Windows Vista Home Premium 64 is actually running well – just a matter of getting the latest beta nVidia drivers installed. I’ll have to try Creative’s ALchemy next, since Microsoft chose to kill hardware-accelerated sound in Windows Vista.

The Q6600 reportedly is easily overclockable by simply bumping the FSB to 1333. I tried a quick bump in BIOS, but that did not work. I think I’ll have to push the voltage a bit. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve overclocked so it’s all new to me again.

With 4 cores, the computer is aptly named Liberator after the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.