Originally posted by: Intelia
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: Intelia
Get a 533 FBS than choose the Cpu thats right for your budget. If your after value buy the cheapest 533 FBS if its pure performance you want get the 2.23 and O/C to 2.8 and have a gaming monster . Your the one buying . whatever you do buy the 533FBS.
If overclocking is not a problem, I'd rather save several hundred on the CPU by going with a 3000/3200+ Venice (overclocking it) and use that money saved for a second video card in a SLI setup for a true gaming monster, which the P-M cannot come close to.
I bet you would but your not the OP. And that would be a nice pick . Seeings how my husbands PM that he just built runs at 3.1 water cooled with chiller. I would recommend the PM as I have seen his results. Which are very good. not world records but 15% faster than his old setup.
Yeah well you're trying to justify an expensive CPU and platform for a purpose that would be wasted money. The P-M is a great gaming CPU, yes, however its platform is fundamentally flawed. It is still a mobile chip with no official desktop support from Intel. You overclock to save money, to grab performance you would otherwise not have. No matter how much you overclock the P-M it will not make up the difference the platform makes.
It might be true that the OP is looking to game, but you're pushing a 2.23GHz P-M which is quite the opposite of inexpensive, especially when at stock its a very capable gaming chip, so overclocking past 2.23GHz would be all you'd need for gaming anyways, especially if paired with a single PCI-e 7800GTX assuming you have the $300 s479 motherboard that has a PCI-e 16x slot, because you're certainly not going to need much more CPU power because you're not going to be able to have SLI.
As I've expressed before, the P-M on the desktop fills a niche for users who like to tinker with hardware. Yes you can get good gaming performance, as much as a single card will take you. But along with the strengths there are still the weaknesses because it is not a complete CPU for the desktop, something an A64 or even P4 is ultimately better for in the end, as the P4's weaknesses, even in areas such as gaming, aren't as glaring as the P-Ms.
Most overclockers are buying the 730M. It's realativly cheap ~ $210 has the 133Mhz bus and overclocks just about right for memory considerations and for maxing out both processor and FSB which high clocked versions will not do due to thier high multi.
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