watch what you get from tigerdirect on the higher quality items ( like the X2's ) they can be more than ~100$ above what ncix is at so it'd be best to shop around
buy a pentium d 820, and a good zalman cooler. it can be overclocked to the performance of an FX-60, and is hella cheap. Also, 1GB atleast of ram. and maybe a (evga) 6600GT. For mobo, i would say an Asus, or (an up comming good one), biostar. ive gottena few good t series boards from it, for amd. and, of course, onboard sound. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817104954 find that at where ever, great psu.
I cincencerly doubt you can get 4.4-5GHz out of an 820 without rather lucrative cooling so that's a bit innaccurate, absolute bang/$ the 805 is a bit of a better buy on the whole though, even still though your recomendation of the 820 is malinformed, the 930 OCs better, runs cooler, has mroe cache(though it doesn't impact performance THAT much), isn't really any more in cost(cheaper than the 930) and has a higher multiplier. after inte's mass price drops they are significantly better place with AMD in terms of bang/$ and OC compareably(when in the under 400 range the relative clock speed of the athlons raises too fast to be much accurate past that point) again though, WAIT... the core2 duos(conroe) are exceptionally good.
start by this chose the other components on your own... AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor S939 Venice 2.0GHZ 512K L2 Cache 90NM Retail Box In Stock 14416 $178.97 $178.97 DFI LANParty UT NF4 ULTRA-D Motherboard ATX S939 NFORCE4 Ultra DDR 2PCI-E16 SATA RAID Sound LAN 1394 In Stock 13825 $145.48 $145.48 OCZ Platinum EL PC3200 1GB 2X512MB DDR400 CL2-3-2-5 184PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit W/ Ramsink In Stock 10813 $161.41 $161.41 XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX 590MHZ 256MB 1.6GHZ DDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I TV-OUT SLI Ready Video Card In Stock 17944 $234.46 $234.46
well... TGdirect is like the only site.. and in two weeks intel's conroe processor comes out and it's really powerful, that' why everyone (myself included) is saying to wait... and no motherboard prices will not drop when it comes out, just proc prices.
Alright, I'll wait until that comes out because I need this fairly cheap, and plus, I'd like to go with AMD if I could, just cause I'm going to be gaming alot, but if someone thinks the Intel 805's are better (I'm definitly going to OC) for OCing, then I'll get that...
the 805s are better bang/$ but won't offer the performance of an opteron 165... BUT... Intel's conroe more or less oblliterates AMD's current offerings, the 2.4GHz version of conroe beats out an FX62 by a fair margin. In terms of core architecture, conroe is more similar to the athlons than the p4 in terms of clock speed and IPCs though it it more ro less a p4 and a PM canibalized together, it again performs VERY WELL.
nothing to bump. wait the god damn 2 weeks for either the conroe or the price drop. read slashdot once in awhile and you will know something. says, BAM, right there (at the moment), first article. http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/06/08/1844236.shtml
Since no one else would at least get me a list of parts, I did it myself. I went with these: http://click2host.us/005/mycomputerspecs.bmp I went with the Intel 805D for overclocking, heard it was good, like a 20x multiplyer... Any good?
So you're not going to wait? You'll see that the processor you are buying now, will be nothing worth within 3 weeks. I'd say wait but if you want to buy it now, get it. Are you sure all parts are compatible?
