Last minute check. Compatibility + Product.

I realize the budget, but where there's a will there's a way. It's good that he is now aware. Then he can examine his options and see what he can pull off. If he can do it he'll be much happier in the long run. Then he can buy me a beer, and I love my beer. :D

It really won't be THAT much more money to upgrade the couple of components I mentioned in the long run, but it will give him more oomph. My wife had the Dell Dimension 3000 with a 533 MHz BUS, same clockspeed as one of mine, but mine simply blew it out of the water. There was no comparison.

He doesn't HAVE to upgrade his RAM. That RAM will work fine and comes with a lifetime warranty if I recall correctly, but certainly he needs to take a look at that CPU.
 
insaneazian said:
Yeah the pentium D processor line was pretty much a jokein the world of dual core processing, intel basically just slapped two processors together on one die to make their pentium d line. However with the X2 line AMD build the multi-core architecture from the ground up. But recently Intel has followed this idea but made it one better with the shared cache among other things.
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Not really. The pd805 is a great dual core for the amount of money you pay for it. Seeing that it is a awesome overclocker it can be on par with many "upper" dual cores. For $95 buck it is a bang.
 
Wait but can you really compare athlon to intel because doesn't amd do something differently that directly links it??? isn't that called hypertransport or something???
 
holyjunk125 said:
Not really. The pd805 is a great dual core for the amount of money you pay for it. Seeing that it is a awesome overclocker it can be on par with many "upper" dual cores. For $95 buck it is a bang.
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Pentium D Processors are completely blown out of the water by the AMD X2 series just like the Conore completely beats the crap out of the AMD X2.
 
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core 512K Per Core 90nm (Socket AM2) (Retail Box-w-Fan)

So is that 533MHz FSB or 800MHz FSB? And if its 533 how much more will a 800 cost?
 
Okay heres my final product unless I need to upgrade something to get 800MHz FSB like the other guy said.

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merc...e=M&Product_Code=110776&AFFIL=pricewatch&NR=1
Asus M2N-E Deluxe nForce 570 Audio/GB-LAN/PCI-E/SATA3G/DDR2/ATX 64 (Socket AM2) Motherboard $99.99

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=120992
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core 512K Per Core 90nm (Socket AM2) (Retail Box-w-Fan) CPU $188.99

http://www.consolutiontechnology.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=64
OCZ 1Gb PC2-6400 Platinum XTC Edition 2 x 512Mb RAM $99.99

http://www.pricewatch.com/public/inf...4&aid=12222788
74GB 10,000 RPM HDD /w 16mb Cache $157.55

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129145
Antec SuperLANBOY Case $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182002
Antec 77095 120mm Blue LED Light Case Cooling Fan $13.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835129016
Rosewill 1.3 RE502-BLK ATX12V 500W Aluminum Power Supply 115/230 V cUL, FCC, CSA, CB, TUV, CE, NEMCO - Retail $47.99

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merc...e=M&Product_Code=190666&AFFIL=pricewatch&NR=1
ATI (Connect3D) Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition 256MB DDR3/PCI-E/VIVO/Dual-DVI (Retail Box) $169.99

$858.48 w/o shipping
Around $880 w/ shipping

This is basically a birthday wish list for my 18th, whatever I don't get I'll have about 500-700 to buy the rest. Anything need to be fixed or upgraded?
 
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