Need suggestions for a new X2 3800+ rig

[GeekySage]

Alrite, this might have been asked a thousand times before but pardon me for asking it again.

I am building a new Athlon x2 3800+ rig and am open to suggestions for the motherboard, ram, video, power supply (for overclocking), and stuff.

Here's what i am thinking about:

athlon x2 3800+
Epox / DFI / MSI (non-sli mobos)
2GB (2x1GB) fast RAM OCZ/ Corsair/ Patriot (for overclocking the cpu to a decent 2.4 or some like that)
Sapphire X800GTO2 video/ other similar good priceerformance deals
200+ GB SATA 3Gbps w/ NCQ - WD/ Maxtor/ Seagate
Antec Performance Plus PlusView II case w/ a good 450+ W psu

as you can see i am not sure about models for many of the components, kindly suggest good ones for whichever you can. I would appreciate complete configs. TIA.

 

[imported_rod]

OK. What are you planning to use it for? Are you going to Overclock?

Anyway, if you want a good MoBo, i would look at the ASUS A8N-E
I think a.t.m. 250GB/300GB hard drives offer the best value for money.
Antec make good power supplies. Maybe you can get one bundled with your case. A 380W+ TruePowerII should be plenty, although a 430W/480W will give you even more room to add stuff further down the road.

Also, some people have been having problems with the 3800+ X2. If you have problems, here are a couple of threads to look at.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1711223&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1662743&enterthread=y

RoD

 

[Chadder007]

DO NOT, get a Gigabyte mobo for your X2....ive had a time and half with this POS, and so has my 3 other coworkers that have the same board.

 

[GeekySage]

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[GeekySage]

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[Vegito]

Its either Asus A8N or DFI Lanparty... i check around, nothing else is good..

I'm using the A8N SLI Premium... 0 prob what so every.. running w2k3 x64 server

 

[Agaruvala]

Theres the build Iam doing in about a week when it al lgets here.

A8N Perm
OCZ DDR 400 PC 3200
Raptor ( Not sure about a good sata drive thats big sorry, but I head doo things about the nee sata drives)


How much you spending on ram there is this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210

or ???

not sure about ram thats not really my area, but for PSU go for a Seasonic I hear they are very good and thats what iam building with.

 

[alimoalem]

for your mobo, get the DFI. you did state how you plan on overclocking.

for the ram, you could cut back a little and put the money elsewhere but if money is not an issue, sounds good. 2x1gb=good choice

x800gto2 is a pretty good price/performance card

hard drive you should get the 250GB+ Western Digital w/16mb cache or a Seagate. it doesn't really matter though. all the new drives, especially the 3gbps ones, are very close in speeds and the difference you see you most likely will not notice.

psu: many AT members think fortons are good PSUs. get a 450w.

 

[ribbon13]

hahahaha. $257 for DDR400 when it can be had for $214 and DDR500 for $250.

Seasonic rocks. $110 S12-500 +$23 S12-600

 

[Agaruvala]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
hahahaha. $257 for DDR400 when it can be had for $214 and DDR500 for $250.

Seasonic rocks. $110 S12-500 +$23 S12-600

Uhhh, I like the times on the other ram and its CL 2 thanks for playing .
it is my understandig that 1 gig of CL 2 ram will own a gig of Cl 3 ram.

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: Agaruvala

Originally posted by: ribbon13
hahahaha. $257 for DDR400 when it can be had for $214 and DDR500 for $250.

Seasonic rocks. $110 S12-500 +$23 S12-600

Uhhh, I like the times on the other ram and its CL 2 thanks for playing .
it is my understandig that 1 gig of CL 2 ram will own a gig of Cl 3 ram.

maybe at the same clockspeed, but that DDR500 can be run at DDR400 with tight as a virgin timings of 2-2-2-5 making your own point against you.

 

[Agaruvala]

Originally posted by: ribbon13

Originally posted by: Agaruvala

Originally posted by: ribbon13
hahahaha. $257 for DDR400 when it can be had for $214 and DDR500 for $250.

Seasonic rocks. $110 S12-500 +$23 S12-600

Uhhh, I like the times on the other ram and its CL 2 thanks for playing .
it is my understandig that 1 gig of CL 2 ram will own a gig of Cl 3 ram.

maybe at the same clockspeed, but that DDR500 can be run at DDR400 with tight as a virgin timings of 2-2-2-5 making your own point against you.

HMMM INTERESTING.

ok your right so what shold i get for my rig I have the same proc as him
This ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231021

Or my planned build ram

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210


I all heard from my freind is stay awa from CL 3 ram

 

[imported_rod]

CL 3 doesn't really matter so much these days, since the A64 has an onboard memory controller. Performance dif would be <10%, probably closer to 5%. You would be better off spending the extra cash getting 2GB of Value Ram, especially if you're into playing newer games (BF2/Fear and Quake4/CoD2 when they're released etc...).

RoD

 

[ribbon13]

The DDR500's being clocked 1.25 times faster more than makes up for the higher latency.

 

[Agaruvala]

I see I see so I think I might just look for some CL 3 ram, I was limiting myself to CL 2 ra, cause of what my friend said. Ribbon TY same goes for rod, Can withe r of yo to recommend some goo (2GBx 1) ram for my new system since I can now see the good things about CL 2 DDR 500

Suggestions welcome, this also help orginal poster. TY

 

[ribbon13]

If there was a better alternative I was aware than what I posted, I would have posted it instead.

 

[Fresh Daemon]

for your mobo, get the DFI. you did state how you plan on overclocking.

QFT.

 

[Agaruvala]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
If there was a better alternative I was aware than what I posted, I would have posted it instead.

Ribbon thank you for you wisdom, my frienmd had me so sold that CL 2 was the best DDR ram reguardless of speed.

Thank you sorry for the flame.

Sage sorry to take over your thread hope this helped.
Ribbon Thank you, saved me some time and money.

Sage what ever you do please be aware that I have heard that some of the older game have trouble runnning on the X2 procs, I would look at some of the X2 forum post about how to go about handling this problem although I would not let it scare you away from dual core as it hasnot scared me away.