Bang for buck Cpu

[Mattd46612]

Im thinkin of building a new rig soon but I want to keep the cpu under $200. I dont want conroe till its matured more. And it seems that the Intel Pentium D 940 @ $187 whoops up on most things out there for the money.

 

[Furen]

No interest on AMD, the X2 3800 is around $150? I'd go for Conroe instead of a Pentium D if you're willing to spend 200 bucks anyway.

 

[Kromis]

Bang for buck is really just Conroe....for now. Muhahahahah!

X2 3800+ for $149 sounds good to me!

 

[Mattd46612]

Just tossin ideas around. Leaning towards intel because I never built a intel system before. I love OCing and tinkering and just feel all of Conroes issues is something id like to avoid right now. would like something more proven with a wider range of mobos to choose from and no compatibility issues. Seems like the 940 is a nice overclocker and in benchmarks it takes a AMD thats far more expensive to keep up.

 

[Markfw]

An x2 3800 OC'ed vs a 940 OC'ed on the same $ hardware ? the AMD X2 3800 will whup a$$ on the Intel.

 

[Mattd46612]

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1988&page=1 seems to run with the x2 5000 in alot of benchmarks... Probably trying to justify to myself thats its worthwhile to build a Intel system right now. You can get the X2 4200 for the same as the 940 and if you overclock them both id have to believe the 4200 would beat it.

 

[harpoon84]

E6300 gets my vote.

Absolutely destroys a stock FX-62 (and hence, any equivalent o/ced X2/Opty @ 2.8GHz) once overclocked past the 3GHz mark.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=2&id=2014

Now I'm aware that Conroe isn't 'mature' enough in your eyes, but the performance is pretty compelling nonetheless.

 

[akshayt]

Opteron 165 @ 2.5 will crush any single core CPU for most practical purposes and I think it is a better option that most/all Intel non Core 2 Duo CPUs, you can consider XE965 if you want, not sure about it. I think you are making a new rig, then:

E6300
PERIOD

 

[Kougar]

Sorry bud, but I have to say it... for $208 shipped (Or slightly less) you can nab an E6300. The only Conroe/Allendale "issues" I know of are the motherboard support, but you should be carefully choosing a mainboard anyway... The performance and power/heat savings difference is just to much compared to any Pentium. And since you like OCing, I should mention 3ghz+ is turning into only an average overclock on low volts with air cooling no less, if you get a good match of components and the right $160 mainboard. I can hit 3.6ghz now with just air, 1.36v, and a trusty E6300.

Good grief, the E6300 is down to $196 shipped from ZipZoomFly now!! http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe...roductCode=80858&prodlist=pricegrabber

 

[Mattd46612]

Guess ill just wait it out a bit till theres a bigger selection of motherboards for the E6300.

 

[Zap]

You know that going to Intel means you need all new RAM as well, right?

 

[dexvx]

ZZF has a retail E6300 for $195 shipped as of now.