pbdr

Well, my new build ids done and upa nd running!

I went with an E8400 wolfdale
Gigibyte EP35C DES MOBO,
and 4 gigs of DDR2 800 at 4,4,4,12

I pretty big improvement over my last Athlon X2 4200+ build.

Still doing a bit of fine tuning, but i can report I get 15 secs on super Pi 1M calculations with no OC. Actually, as I'm not much of an overclocker I probably won't (plus I believe the DES software prevents it).

Just thought I'd brag for a bit.

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My current Build:

E8400 Wolfdale
Gigabyte EP35C DES
4 gig A-DATA DDR2 800
Sapphire Radeon HD 3870
Seagate 320 GB HDD
Lite-On Lightscribe DVDRW
Raidmax Sagitta (Black) Case

ellanky

Nicely done, cant wait till my new build

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MoboAbit- NF8
CPUAMD Sempron 3000+
GraphicsGeforce 6600 AGP :<
Memory768MB DDR

lovely?

when i inevitably get rid of this processor, im either getting a q6600 or that, but its difficult to decide.

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E4500 @ 2.93GHZ
ASUS P5K-DELUXE (Thanks Geoff)
2GB OCZ Reaper CL3 @ 800MHZ 3-4-4-15
eVGA 8800GT
OZC GameXStream 700W PSU
320GB WD Caviar SATA, 80GB WD Caviar IDE

Sometimes scientists make things alot harder than they need to. All they've gotta do is put a big spring on the ground where they think it's gonna land, or send a mission to the moon to erect a sign that says "Welcome to Earth".

2048Megabytes

Nice build. I was thinking of getting an Intel Core 2 Duo with my next system but decided to go with Advanced Micro Devices when I purchase my next processor.

My reasoning is I'd like to have two big companies making processors that way the competition will hopefully force better quality components. I'd hate to see AMD go under.

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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." -- George Washington

Operating Systems: 32-bit Fedora 8 Linux, 32-bit Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Processor: AMD Athlon 4000+ Socket 939
Motherboard: Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS
Memory: 2 gigabytes of PC-3200 Super Talent

pbdr

I honestly agree with you, about performance and price, and was putting together an AMD rig. The Phenom XX50 series are about equal in performance/price against Intel right now (Stock,m but Me and most people don't really OC), and I usually support the "little guy"; competition is a good thing (AMD's recent problems are why Intel gets to release their new quads at >$1,000...).

In this case though I went with the E8400 for the power savings. The chip is rated at 65 watt (vs 125 for the Phenom 9850) and the gigabyte DES board really helps reduce power consumption (ASUS makes a power saving board too, I'm not sure if either come in AMD sockets).

All that and I scored a 11699 in 3D mark06...

Anyhoo, just braggin on the rig.

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My current Build:

E8400 Wolfdale
Gigabyte EP35C DES
4 gig A-DATA DDR2 800
Sapphire Radeon HD 3870
Seagate 320 GB HDD
Lite-On Lightscribe DVDRW
Raidmax Sagitta (Black) Case