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Building new system before end of Oct.

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Blammo300

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I built this computer from Newegg 2 years ago:

SOLTEK SL-K8AN2E-GR Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023AS 160GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0ghz OC?ed @ 2.35ghz Newcastle 800MHz FSB Socket 754 CPU

Antec TRUE430 ATX 430W Power Supply

COOLER MASTER Praetorian PAC-T01-EK Black

Crucial Ballistix Memory 1 Gig PC 4000 DDR 500

EVGA 7800GT 256mg VGA Video Card

I would like to join the Dual-Core bandwagon and also upgrade so I can play some new games that are coming out in the next year (Especially Supreme Commander). Newegg has a great deal with ?No Payments for 6 months? which ends Oct 31st so I need to order before then. I do not need a Monitor, Speakers or Case but everything else needs to be replaced.

My Budget for the new system would be around $700-900.

What would you guys buy for a new system if you had $700-900 to spend?
 
How good would the overclock potential be on that intel chip? How much faster in % do you guys think the new computer would be?
 
Originally posted by: Blammo300
How good would the overclock potential be on that intel chip? How much faster in % do you guys think the new computer would be?
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You could probobly hit beyond 2.6GHZ on that configuration with stock cooling. You might be able to hit around 2.8GHZ, but that's pretty unreasonable from an E6300. I would say more than twice as fast as ur old 3000+.
edit: I didn't see that ur chip was oc'd, so it should be about twice as fast.
 
2.8GHz is not unreasonable for an E6300. The E6300 can often hit higher speeds than the E6600 and above CPUs.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
2.8GHz is not unreasonable for an E6300. The E6300 can often hit higher speeds than the E6600 and above CPUs.
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You don't think that mobo will limit his overclocks though?
 
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Howard
2.8GHz is not unreasonable for an E6300. The E6300 can often hit higher speeds than the E6600 and above CPUs.
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You don't think that mobo will limit his overclocks though?
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Why would it? A lot of them go past 500 FSB.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Howard
2.8GHz is not unreasonable for an E6300. The E6300 can often hit higher speeds than the E6600 and above CPUs.
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You don't think that mobo will limit his overclocks though?
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Why would it? A lot of them go past 500 FSB.
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I know a lot of ultra high end boards did, not this board though. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Howard
2.8GHz is not unreasonable for an E6300. The E6300 can often hit higher speeds than the E6600 and above CPUs.
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You don't think that mobo will limit his overclocks though?
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Why would it? A lot of them go past 500 FSB.
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I know a lot of ultra high end boards did, not this board though. Thanks.
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The P5B[-E/Deluxe] does the same.
 
The DS3 is also Quad Core upgradeable (when the bios becomes availble) so it has even more future life in it. Knowing this and your low budget I'd say stick with the 6300 and DS3 and then next year if you feel more is needed then flash the BIOS and swap in a quadcore chip. If you want to increase OCing ability then maybe consider a E6400 and/or a P5B/P5B-E mobo. Not that you need to. Just an option.
 
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