AMD Hyper Transport?

brycematheson712

brycematheson712

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Previously, I've only been dealing with Intel CPUs and FSB.

However, recently, I've been working on an ultra-budget PC ($200) and it seems that for the little money I'm able to spend on a computer AMD is going to give me the most bang for my buck. However, the motherboard has stated that it runs at 800MHz (1600 MT/s) Hyper Transport Speed. How does this compare to FSB and how does it work? Also, is this a good speed and will it cause any type of a bottleneck on my system?

Thanks.
 
What board are you talking about, 800/1600 Hypertransport was socket 754 motherboard wise. I think the Semprons still run on a 800/1600 Hypertransport even on a 1000/2000 Hypertransport AM2 board.
 
Well, the problem is that I've only got about $200 (and maybe a TAD bit over) to choose a CPU, a motherboard, a decent sized hard drive, and about 1 or 2 GBs of RAM. I've already got a Power Supply (430w) and a case. Also, I was hoping to use my old AGP Graphics card on it, because I still think that it would have better capabilities than any onboard graphics.

What are your guys' views?
 
I dont guess there would be any performance loss with the slower Hypertransport, your pretty limited on boards with a AGP port.
 
See, my issue though is that I'm going to be running Ubuntu Linux (hence the Avatar) like I've always done. Linux is awesome. I love it, it's great. However, I'm really into photo editing (via GIMP). I don't know if I should go with a better, newer motherboard and just use the onboard graphics (because I can't afford a PCI-e card at this point) or go with an older, more compatible motherboard, that can support AGP.

I've got an AGP GeForce 5600 256MB Graphics Card. Nothing fancy, but still a decent card.

What's your suggestions?
 
If I decided to go that route for the meantime, while I was saving up for a nice graphics card (Maybe a 7900GS?), how would the onboard graphics perform? I'm not sure how much VRAM they generally have, but it should be enough just for basic photo editing, right?
 
onboard video is notorious for leeching memory from ram, so its sometimes hard to tell exactly how much it can use, but its probably somewhere between 32 and 64MB if its a good one
 
Wow, that's good to know. Again, I'm using Linux and most of the time all I'm using is about 300MB for just everyday use and then maybe an extra 100MB at the most when editing pictures. I was just going to go with 1GB to save some money, but maybe I should think about adding the extra stick to make a combined total of 2GB.

This is what I've got together so far...

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157108
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103774
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136075

(All of that comes to $221.00 WITH SHIPPING which is right where I want to be and maybe just a little bit over. As I get more cash I'll continue to upgrade it.)

I'd like to try my hand at overclocking also...never tried it before. On the 'Customer Reviews' page on that CPU people have claimed to gotten it up to 2.8GHz with not too a hot configuration on the stock cooler. That looks interesting to me. How does the Motherboard look for LIGHT overclocking and just general use? What about everything else? As I said earlier, I've got the power supply and case already.
 
Haha, thanks for the compliment. I'm proud of it too. :) It also looks like I'll be getting a tad bit more money than I was expecting too, so that might mean a slightly faster CPU, or I might even throw in a good GPU while I'm at it! Haha, I'm stoked.
 
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