Help! Which one to buy

[GrmReeper]

Ok, I am sure this has been asked before, but here I go anyway.

I was looking at buying the AMD 2600+ 333Mhz with the ASUS A7V333XL mobo and PC 2700 512M Cas2 memory.

Now, I noticed I could get the Intel 2.6 400Mhz with the ASUS P4S533-E/L mobo and PC2700 512M Cas2 memory for the same price, give of take a couple of bucks.

Which one should I get?

Can the AMD 2600+ 333 be OC'ed?

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[Wingznut]

If you go with the P4, I'd suggest upgrading to the 2.66ghz, as it runs on a 533mhz FSB. It's actually the same price.

 

[Duvie]

Stay away from the p4 2.6ghz as the high multipler will make it hard to fsb very high and the real advantage comes with raising the fsb....

Also the 2600+ 333mhz will oc but the headroom is significantly reduced as opposed to getting a tbred 1700+ to the 2100+ many are ocing to high numbers. All the chips likely fabbed rather close to one another will top out around same range so the 2100 and 1700+ offere same potential at tremendous savings....

If you look at 2.6ghz range of chips the intel is price favorably to the amd chip so go intel...If you go down to the 2.4ghz level is moreof a tossup....lower then that and amd is the true leader in price/performance...

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

i say go wtih 2100+ tbred b and overclock it (if you plan on ocin)

 

[GrmReeper]

I had not planned on overclocking. I only asked about it out of curiosity.

Is the 2100 OC'ed actually better that an 2600 333 with cas2 memory?

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[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: GrmReeper
I had not planned on overclocking. I only asked about it out of curiosity.

Is the 2100 OC'ed actually better that an 2600 333 with cas2 memory?

G

hel yeah
search forum for 2100+ and you will find many success stories

even 1700+ tbred b's are awesome

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

the P4S-series of mobo's do not have a PCI/AGP lock, causing these devices to be out of spec when run at irregular fsb's (ie: 160 fsb = 40MHz pci and 80MHz agp). look into a P4B533

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: ErikaeanLogic
the P4S-series of mobo's do not have a PCI/AGP lock, causing these devices to be out of spec when run at irregular fsb's (ie: 160 fsb = 40MHz pci and 80MHz agp). look into a P4B533

err oh ya

forgot that S signifies SiS chipset lol
SiS doesnt have any pci/agp lock for any board i think

yeah, go for p4b533, one hellova board!