this is a great deal...the cheapest ive seen for a 4850 and the hs fan on this unit is good quality, not like the reference coolers that use to be on all of them.
yes the difference is 200mhz on each core which would translate into 4-5% improvement depending on if you use intense applications like burning dvd's, encode videos, converting cd's to mp3, video games. In day to day computing (e-mail, web surf, etc.) you probably would be hard pressed to be...
Nessism,
I've checked the benchmarks on tom's hardware. Basically, they drop the 5000 in a $170 top of the line mobo with some ddr2-1066 ram and overclock the crap out of the 5000 to 3.2 to get the same (and in some cases sub-par) performance as the 6400+.....Hey Guys listen up, I've got a...
Wow...You've truly gone insane....I love AMD chips but I will never buy another one that doesn't have 2mb of L2 (2x1mb).
P.s. For all you oc'ing noobs out there: the reason why Intel chip are eating Amd's lunch is not neccesarily because of clock speed but more because of L2 cache.
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You guys crack me up! 5 titles on orange box isn't enough for you. ...like VALVE is saying "we have too many of these really good selling game titles, please take one". CS:S is unarguably the most popular shooting game...
I think I'm going to have my FID for sale soon.
I've got the upgrade itch again and recently bought a AM2 chip and some DDR2 memory which I can't use on this board. Man, I wish I could!!! MSI really proved to me that they we're contenders. This has been one of the two best systems I've built...
e6750 $189.99 at the egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115029
scroll down and click on Combo Deals (view all), select the deal with the corsair ram.
don't forget to fill out the MIR.
(I can't believe I'm linking this since I am a huge AMD fan)...
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