advice from the P5N32-SLI SE crowd

[BOA279]

ok...I still dont know if my x6800 is dead yet..(posted entire story under mach install/trouble shooting) My new p5n32-sli se is in the mail so I can't test the cpu yet. My question is if it did not survive the flood and I have to buy another one, what difference "preformance wise" would I see if I bought the next step down (like a E6700) and overclocked it? Ive read in another forum that the 6800 is the same as a 6700 with a higher clock from the factory...is that true? Im not a huge overclocker but I did play with my fx-60 up to 3.2 or so. The other issue was I could never overclock the x6800 at all. No matter what I did it would crash or lock up within 1 minute. Anyone out there have a stable overclocked setup with a core 2 and this motherboard? Any help would be wonderful. Just looking at my good rig in pieces makes my stomach knot up. Its like watching your kid break a leg and waiting for the cast to show up in the mail. Thanks in advance

 

[Master_G]

On the not being able to overclock issue, it may have been from the condensation that was occuring, having water floating around on the motherboard and CPU really messes things up and can cause all sorts of problems, and may have been why you couldnt overclock at all.

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[BOA279]

I can understand that but this issue happened about a month or so later. I benched it repeatedly for a week with folding@home, sandra, 3dmark06, memtest and so on with no issues at all. Since day one the instant I overclocked it would lock up. Even with the AI Nos thing asus has (which Im really not a fan of...just to try to get it to work) rig was stable until the nos kicked in and overclocked it.

The real question I have is this. Are the e6700 and x6800 basically the same chip clocked at different speeds? If so, wouldnt it be reasonable to same that overclocking an e6700 to...say...3.0 provide the same or better performace than an x6800? Let me have your input please guys.