Buying a 64 3200+ in a week or two

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mldeveloper

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So I've been lurking this forum for a bit now trying to understand as much as possible before building my first system and think I'm *almost* ready to buy.

I want to get an amd64 3200+, I know that for sure. I was hoping for a socket 939 solution but since I need it soon and don't want to spend $500 on a processor, I'm stepping back to socket 754.

After looking over this article I've determined to get a

Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard
and two 512mb mushkin ram sticks

so before I buy I'm curious what you guys think of this combination?

I know nothing about overclocking but suspect I'll dabble in it a bit, I'm more concerned about having a stable and quiet system though. Is the motherboard overkill? Is the ram fast enough? Please let me know what you would choose for ~$500 combo.

And lastly I'll be using this system mostly for gaming, I didn't include the video card here cause I'm still waiting to see final prices on nvidia and other ati x series cards.

Thanks
 
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bluewall21

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You sound like me, except n00bier. The motherboard is good, but if you want to save money, you can go lower (AOpen and Chaintech make pretty good lower priced boards). The memory probably won't o/c that much, but if you are careful, it can get you started. What is the $500 including?
 
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mldeveloper

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thats why i fudged it a bit with ~$500 :)

the difference in prices seem to be around the chipset, am i getting more out of the nForce3 250 vs. the nForce3 150, considering what I plan on doing with the computer?
 
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Runner20

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The new nForce 250 is better than the 150, thats for sure. But I still think that the Via K8T800 chipset for the 754 motherboards is better, if only slightly better. It offers better performance. I suggest you get the MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R K8T800. It's gotten great reviews from all over the place. It's probably the motherboard to get for the high end gaming.
 
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mldeveloper

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cool, what is the main difference between the Neo-FSR and the Neo-FIS2R? I can see the latter has firewire, and 3x IDE which I don't need. Would there be any reason to get the Neo-FIS2R due to stability?

I do like the 8 usb ports, 6 channel audio and gigabit ethernet on these two vs the chaintech
 
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mldeveloper

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I noticed one of the comments at newegg had this to say.

"I wanted to load it up with 3, 512's and found out that you can't run three, double sided sticks at 400mhz. It will only run at 333."

Will I run into this problem with 2 of the mushkin 512's i listed in my first post?
 
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Runner20

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Well, its newer, if that means anything to you. Updated BIOS, etc. I would get FISR2 if I were you. Its cheaper than some of the other 754 mobo's and offers better performance, and is pretty reliable.
 
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howdyduty

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For OC'ing, the 3000+ is supposed to be good. Also, would need faster than PC3200 to increase chances of OC'ing past 200mhz default fsb for A64.
 
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