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Saurian · 09-11-2006, 10:27 PM

The Ghz doesn't matter nearly as much anymore. For years Intel tried to make us all believe that all that mattered was that the processor was faster. An E6300 Core 2 Duo from Intel will beat most of the Athlon X2's in most benchmarks stock vs stock. This doesn't even begin to take consideration of the massive overclockability of the E6300, or its faster brothers.

You could get an Athlon X2 4200+ for about...170 or so now I think? The E6300 has dropped down to 185 dollars now on Newegg, WAY cheap for what you get. Pair it with even a cheaper board and you're good to go.

You really need to give this forum a budget you want to look at, and there are a handful of individuals who can put together a great system for whatever budget.

For Example:

Processor: Intel E6300 Conroe - 185 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115005
Motherboard: ECS P965 Core 2 Duo-ready Motherboard - 89.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135022
Memory: G-Skill DDR2-800 CAS 4 1.9-2.0v 2x512MB - 139.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231064
Video: BFG Tech GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCIe x16 - 114.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143049

This would be a quick setup which would excel at most things you throw at it. not necessarily the best overclocking board in the world, the graphics card is good today, and will get you through till DX10 takes over the upper-to-mainstream market, memory I'm pretty sure is a proven overclocker, and of course the E6300 is just simply awesome. Add in a 7200rpm hard drive from any of the big producers (Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, etc), sound card if you would like, a cheap DVD burner, whatever kind of case you like - its up to you. But those 4 items are the "core" of a system, and you're only spending just over 500 bucks for something that will be good today, and not outdated for a little while yet.

Others can offer their opinions and such, but its all up to you. What's your budget? If you can afford to spend 700 bucks on this, you can grab yourself a n ATI X1900XT or something similar which will dominate games, or maybe you could move up to a 2x1GB dual channel kit from the 2x512 kit. It's all about how much you will use from your old system, or will buy new now.

09-11-2006, 10:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
Saurian Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Oskaloosa/Pleasantville, Iowa Age: 22 Posts: 552	The Ghz doesn't matter nearly as much anymore. For years Intel tried to make us all believe that all that mattered was that the processor was faster. An E6300 Core 2 Duo from Intel will beat most of the Athlon X2's in most benchmarks stock vs stock. This doesn't even begin to take consideration of the massive overclockability of the E6300, or its faster brothers. You could get an Athlon X2 4200+ for about...170 or so now I think? The E6300 has dropped down to 185 dollars now on Newegg, WAY cheap for what you get. Pair it with even a cheaper board and you're good to go. You really need to give this forum a budget you want to look at, and there are a handful of individuals who can put together a great system for whatever budget. For Example: Processor: Intel E6300 Conroe - 185 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115005 Motherboard: ECS P965 Core 2 Duo-ready Motherboard - 89.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135022 Memory: G-Skill DDR2-800 CAS 4 1.9-2.0v 2x512MB - 139.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231064 Video: BFG Tech GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCIe x16 - 114.99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143049 This would be a quick setup which would excel at most things you throw at it. not necessarily the best overclocking board in the world, the graphics card is good today, and will get you through till DX10 takes over the upper-to-mainstream market, memory I'm pretty sure is a proven overclocker, and of course the E6300 is just simply awesome. Add in a 7200rpm hard drive from any of the big producers (Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, etc), sound card if you would like, a cheap DVD burner, whatever kind of case you like - its up to you. But those 4 items are the "core" of a system, and you're only spending just over 500 bucks for something that will be good today, and not outdated for a little while yet. Others can offer their opinions and such, but its all up to you. What's your budget? If you can afford to spend 700 bucks on this, you can grab yourself a n ATI X1900XT or something similar which will dominate games, or maybe you could move up to a 2x1GB dual channel kit from the 2x512 kit. It's all about how much you will use from your old system, or will buy new now. __________________ Intel 3.2Ghz P4 MSI PM8M3-V GF FX5900XT 128MB 512 MB CXMS Dell 20.1" Widescreen LCD Need...upgrades....:)