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Thanks for the reply. The memory is sitting at 816 right now. Memtest passed and I ran Orthos on blend for 3 hours so far and it's been stable. I'm not real familiar with memory OCing so I'm not sure if I want to get into that just yet. Right now I'm stable @ 3.06 with a 2.6 stock CPU so I...

I just pt together my first comp and I was wondering if raising the fsb would provide any benefit. I have an AMD 5000 Black Edition and was just using the unlocked multiplier at x15. I also have 2g ddr2 800 in the system with a Gigabyte m61ps3 MOBO. Right now the fsb is at 210mhz and the CPU...

It's from a Dell I bought so I guess it's OEM? Oh well, maybe I'll try Vista, although I've heard several bad things about it.

Here's my build: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Memory: A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s...

to buy another OS? Is there any way to transfer windows xp from my old computer to this new one that I'm building? I'd rather not have to spend another $100 to get this thing up and running.

Funny you should mention it. I just bought that same exact processor from the Egg and comboed it with a 250g Seagate with 16mb cache for 130 out the door. It seemes like a good deal. Glad to know I made the right call!

But will I be limited by the low cache and mulitiplier on the e2160? Although I guess I'm risking that on the others as well. Plus, do overclocking these processors lessen the lifespan much? I've read several theories from different websites and no one seems to give a definitive answer.

Yeah I'm not going to be running at highest resolution, I just want to be able to run the most current games at a decent resolution. I'm not a hard-core gamer, but I like to play the occasional Bioshock and COD4 every once and a while.

Thank ya! I'm expecting to find lots of useful (and probably some useless) info here. Love the site so far!

I'm going to be using this comp mainly for gaming, but also for some media. I'm on a pretty tight budget. I already have a monitor, optical drive and keyboard/mouse peripherals. This is what I am leaning towards so far for my build: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane 2.3GHz Socket AM2...