Nothing much going on

Submitted by poit on April 20, 2007 - 07:35.

Well, nothing much has been going on lately.  I've got an external drive enclosure for one of the little hard drives I have laying around, a fairly good heatsink, a gigabit ethernet adapter so all the computers are back on gigabit...but that's about it.What I'm waiting for is the next Core2Duo processor.  I'd THOUGHT that the E4300 would be the chip I was waiting on.  Turns out it's not really supposed to be a "bargain" chip, just a reasonably priced one.  By the way, if you're looking for a CPU with high overclocking potential, the Intel E4300/E4400 are a great way to go.  Sure, they're kind of "wimpy" at 1.8 and 2.0 ghz respectively but that puts them at about the same speed as a dual, 4ghz P4...and with a lower bus speed they're ideal for overclocking.  Just bumping them from 800mhz to 1066mhz (standard bus speeds) nets you 2.4ghz and 2.66ghz respectively.Of course, as I mentioned...what I'm REALLY waiting on is the  E2140 and E2160 (or at least, that's what they're SUPPOSED to be) at 1.6 and 1.8ghz.  Mmmm...sub $100 Core2Duos.  Anyway, that's what I'm waiting for processor-wise.  Should be out in the next month or two if they come out.  Should overclock like crazy and should only have a 5% drop in performance because of the lower cache size.