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Building a new machine
Topic Started: Jan 14 2008, 10:02 PM (917 Views)
Phantasm
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in the next couple weeks ill be picking up this set up im just not sure about the PCI ex16 2.0 .I dont know if i would have to get a compatible MoBo for the video card :blink: see anything worng or should get something diffrent let me know.

http://www.compusa.com/applications/Search...0085&CatId=2417
ASUS M2N-E SLI Motherboard CPU Bundle - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Processor Black Edition 3.20GHz

http://www.compusa.com/applications/Search...9&Sku=TC3J-2269
NZXT Lexa Black/Silver Aluminum ATX Mid-Tower Case with Clear Side, Front USB, FireWire and Audio Ports with Ultra X-Finity 600-Watt SLI Ready Titanium Power Supply

http://www.compusa.com/applications/Search...6&Sku=O261-8070
OCZ Platinum Revision-2 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 x 1024MB)

http://www.compusa.com/applications/Search...6163&CatId=1558
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT Superclocked Video Card - FREE Enemy Territory: Quake Wars PC Game, 512MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card

http://www.compusa.com/applications/Search...04150&CatId=493
Thermaltake TR2-R1 / AMD Socket AM2/939/754 / Aluminum / 92mm Fan / CPU Cooler
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ZeroTM
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I know you're probably an AMD guy, but you can get WAY more performance out of a E8400 from Intel.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...15037&Tpk=e8400

It's faster and considerably more cheap than the q6600 quad core.
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Kage
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You have to be careful when doing this... cuz if something aint compatible ur screwed... i much prefer intel now over AMD... call me crazy but intel has ran away with the cake... but just make sure you knw exactly what ur doing, and just to be safe, tell the computer guys there exactly what ur doing... And if possible tell us exact specs of the machine you want cuz i can work with specs... just not mb's... lol
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Phantasm
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Im quiet well versed with pc hardware and components it's the little thing's that get ya .But ive found the answer and i wont have any issues :)
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Kage
Jan 29 2008, 05:14 AM
You have to be careful when doing this... cuz if something aint compatible ur screwed... i much prefer intel now over AMD... call me crazy but intel has ran away with the cake... but just make sure you knw exactly what ur doing, and just to be safe, tell the computer guys there exactly what ur doing... And if possible tell us exact specs of the machine you want cuz i can work with specs... just not mb's... lol

True, AMD might have been good back then, but it's behind now, even with its new Phenom CPUs.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2226943,00.asp

That Q6600 is old too, and Intel is only starting to bring out the new Penryn's. Personally I want to go for the Q9450, pushes mind-blowing performance for the price.
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its personal choice im AMD all the way.Ive owned a few pentium machine's and AMD ive always had better luck with AMD.It's always a constant battle with AMD and pentium id rather just build a mid grade system it does what i want it to do im happy. :D
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Kage
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Phant trust me, you want a machine as best as possible so it lasts. When i bought my laptop i knew laptops are upgraded more, so i got the best of the best, im glad i did despite the $2500 price tag, this machine id only october old, so its still the maximum in it range, so i plan to sell it at the end of the year and upgrade again, and phant, intel has improved... heaps lol. ever since they upgraded from the pentium 4 they have been the best
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Phantasm
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I appreciate your opinion kage but to keep your system at the best you would need to upgrade every 3 to 6 months in reality.But like i said before it's personal choice and with hardware and i ll stick with AMD. ^_^
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Kage
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:unsure: Please phant buy intel.. save urself the pain, most games now are designed for intel processors.. :rolleyes:
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I'm looking at the E8400 myself ZeroTM, should go great with the 680i A-1 I just got. AMD is only slightly behind, their dual cores put out just as well as Intel. And for awhile, better simply because they had a bigger cache size. AMD fell behind in Quad cores because they were smart enough not to rush. Intel was finally smart enough not to push something like the Pentium D this time... I only went Intel because of their better support for Linux. Otherwise, I'd be all about AMD.
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Let Intel push the limits and spend the money on R&D for a processor that supports very few linux machines (as in not many users running linux) and the train-wreck known as Vista. AMD can afford to hang back and let their dual cores continue to sell. I'm sure once the next Windows O/S is on the verge of showing itself, AMD is gonna bring the hammer down on us all with a processor that will cause us to stare open mouthed in shock and awe of it's performance, power efficiency, etc..

Until then I'll let my AMD turion run Vista on my laptop, and my AMD X2 3800+ and 6400+ black edition run WinXP and linux. ;)
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4 u guys.

http://en.expreview.com/?p=242
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Kage
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i see no top green XD

How can a turion run vista without exploding? i have a 2.2 C2D in my laptop, upgrading to a 2.8 soon, but please phant please buy intel if u wanting to play games XD
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Will a Direct X 10 card have a negative effect on my older games?

Also.. it possible to have a MOBO that is Phenom compatible as well? Dragons like to upgrade over time.
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Kage
Feb 1 2008, 10:20 PM
How can a turion run vista without exploding?

Turion 64 X2 with 2GB RAM cache is 512KB + 512KB Level 2.
It struggles, but it flies if I used system expansion (4 Gb flash drive as extra memory)
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