changing cpu

[MALIK123]

I am upgrading my system to do some graphic work using premiere, photoshop and building a web page. I will also do alot of word processing and medical research. My thought is to use the amd athlon 1.8 64 3000+ venice, overclock it and use the abit ABIT's Fatal1ty AN8 mainboard with Corsair's Xpert XMS3200XL low-latency memory and run it at its native 2-2-2-5 timings. Also my power source would be OCZ' PowerStream 520w model. (This approac is taken from an article in Hexus http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1255&redirect=yes) I would like some suggestion on this approach and on these choices and some ideas on how to overclock.

 

[kenrippy]

stay away from abit since they'r out of business, or soon to be (not sure which atm) possibly take a look at the asus a8n-e

don't bother yourself with tight memory timings (low latency etc.) since it will make no real world difference in the a64 platform. just get at least 2x1gb of some pc3200 ram from a manufacturer of your choice. lately i've liked the A-Data, G-Skill, or Buffalo on the budget side.

if you want to make the overclock easy, get some pc4000 ram like the OCZ EB or EL stuff.

 

[Maximilian]

Unless im missing somthing El-cheapo crucial value ram should do. Get a DFI board for overclocking.

Abit arent dead yet, theyre being taken over by some other company apparently. The name will be there but they wont be an independant manufacturer anymore.