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a64 Venice 3200+ or 3000+?

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matsur

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Hi,

I'm new to hobby builds (this will be my first) and just wanted to run my parts list past you folks before ordering.

I was planning on:
A64 Venice, either a 3200+ or a 3000+. Which offer the best P/P ratio, especially factoring some moderate OC'ing?
An Abit AN8 for the mobo
Corsair PC3200 1 gb stick (would this take OC'ing?)
XFX PVT43PUD Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card. I was leaning toward this because of the dual head DVI and passive cooling.

Are these all good choices? I'd like to have this machine run as silent as possible, and have no idea which case I should use. Suggestions? Is the stock HSF enough for taking the 3200 to like 2.7 ghz? Will Cool n Quiet work fine w/ an OC'ed proc? I've read some conflicting reports on that.

Thanks in advance for your patience and help!
matsur
 
Kool n Quiet will be fine as long as you use the default multiplier.

3000+ is the best bang for the buck CPU available. If you insist on getting that mobo, then I would say get the 3200+ for the 10x multiplier to allow higher OC with lower HTT.

My stock heatsink took me to 2.6GHZ but temps were high.
 
The 3000+ is really easy to OC. Quite a few people have made it to 2700mhz with stock cooling. I made it to 2500 with fine temperatures on a Shuttle SN25P case and mobo.
 
3000 hands down.. it will prolly clock better than 3200... get it from ewiz.com ... best price for it ..
if u plan to oc.. get DFI nf4 lanparty mobo.. avoid value rams..
 
3200..."better" overclocking, even though i think you should be able to get the 3000 up to those speeds...

i was about to recommend the 6600GT by xfx. it has dual dvi, but no passive cooling...>.<
 
OCZ Value VX is great value RAM, cheap too. I'd reccommend this RAM over the high priced stuff any day
 
I'm going to buy the rest of the stuff for my computer this week, please critique what I'm building:

Antec P180
Seasonic S12 500w or Antec TruePower II 550w
AMD64 3200+
Asus A8N-SLI
ATI x800xl (I already have this)
2 OEM SATA hard drives
2 optical drives
RAM (I need help choosing some good stuff)
 
Does anyone have any thoughts about the XFX PVT43PUD Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card? I have recently ordered a very similar system. I got the 3000+Venice with a MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 mobo. I'm interested in trying to overclock too but i'm pretty much a newb when it comes to this.
 
people keep saying 3200 just bcuz it's got 1 more multiplier... "hypothetically" better... .spend time reading around forums like dfistreet, xtremesystems, and overclock.net...
majority of 3000 OC beats 3200... .
 
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