originally posted by: harpoon84
Since you are running a S939 system already, a 7900GS would do nicely. It's probably not worth the $$$ or hassle to do a platform overhaul at this stage.
Yeah Opty 165s @ 2.8 - 2.9GHz is nice, but that's only equivalent to a ~2.4GHz C2D. For roughly the same price you can get an E6300 and O/C to 3 - 3.2GHz easily, often at stock volts as well. I'm aware good O/Cing boards from Intel add another $50 to the overall cost, but that's easily justified considering the extra performance.
For anybody buying a new dual core system and intending to overclock, I don't see how anybody could recommend AMD at this stage unless the budget was really tight.
I can see a potential market for X2 3600+/3800+s and a cheap $50 Asrock AM2 mobo, but other than that it's all Intel for dual core atm.
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Intel currently has the mac daddy until AMD figures out how to utilize DDR2 into their architecture. As far as Beachboy's comments about his Asrock setup using regular DDR ram and an 850xt. It sounds pretty good, but I can't really comment on that because I have no experience with Asrock mobo's.
If you don't flinch at spending roughly $275 for 2x1gig sticks of name brand DDR2 800.
Go for it!!!!
I'm personally going to use current components (maybe buy a 7900gs) and try to hold out until DDR3 comes out. I have a sneakin suspicion this will happen in a year and a half.
Since you are running a S939 system already, a 7900GS would do nicely. It's probably not worth the $$$ or hassle to do a platform overhaul at this stage.
Yeah Opty 165s @ 2.8 - 2.9GHz is nice, but that's only equivalent to a ~2.4GHz C2D. For roughly the same price you can get an E6300 and O/C to 3 - 3.2GHz easily, often at stock volts as well. I'm aware good O/Cing boards from Intel add another $50 to the overall cost, but that's easily justified considering the extra performance.
For anybody buying a new dual core system and intending to overclock, I don't see how anybody could recommend AMD at this stage unless the budget was really tight.
I can see a potential market for X2 3600+/3800+s and a cheap $50 Asrock AM2 mobo, but other than that it's all Intel for dual core atm.
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Intel currently has the mac daddy until AMD figures out how to utilize DDR2 into their architecture. As far as Beachboy's comments about his Asrock setup using regular DDR ram and an 850xt. It sounds pretty good, but I can't really comment on that because I have no experience with Asrock mobo's.
If you don't flinch at spending roughly $275 for 2x1gig sticks of name brand DDR2 800.
Go for it!!!!
I'm personally going to use current components (maybe buy a 7900gs) and try to hold out until DDR3 comes out. I have a sneakin suspicion this will happen in a year and a half.
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