CPU pick help

[Corpsman]

I am putting together my system and I have everything I need but the CPU. I have a DFI SLI-DR and OCZ VX Gold PC-4000. I am no expert at this but someone on another board said that if I buy an AMD64 Winchester 90nm 3000+ I would have been better off getting the OCZ Platinum PC-3200 Rev2 becuase it will allow me to overclock the CPU higher. So I was told that the only way to make it worth having the VX memory was if I got a higher clocked CPU. Is this true? And if so, what would you suggest for price/performance considerations?

 

[christopherzombie]

Keep your RAM and get the Winchester 3200+. It Has a multi of 10x. You'll get get an overclock of 2.66ghz with your RAM at stock clocks. It's only 50 bucks more.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Well, you would have gotten a higher overclock with the PC3200 Plat Rev 2, however, you will get better timings at 250 FSB with the VX. Get the Winchester 3200 like christopherzombie suggested, keep the multiplier at 10, set the FSB to 250, timings at 2-2-2-8 at 3.3v and you'll be happy with the performance.

 

[AristoV300]

YOu need a vmodded board or an OCZ Booster for 3.3v.

 

[Corpsman]

The DFI board doesn't need the booster.

 

[RussianSensation]

Just get Twinmos or Gskill value 1 gig of ram for $100. I don't think paying $150 extra for VX ram is going to increase performance by more than 10%? I would personally invest the money into a faster videocard or better cpu. Also there is no point going SLI unless you intend to put at least 1 6800GT to start with.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
YOu need a vmodded board or an OCZ Booster for 3.3v.

He will not need to do a volt modd or use the OCZ booster, because his boards has a jumper settings so that you can set the DIMM volts upto 4v