Pentium 4?

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what i think im going with

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103537

Mobo: ASUS A8S-X Socket 939
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131525

Memory: Kingston ValueRAM DDR400 PC3200 (2 of these)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820141436

PSU: Rosewill RD400-2 DB ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817182021

Video Card: eVGA GeForce 7600GS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130020
 
eyesofvenus said:
Im talking aboutpushing the max with water cooling, not really worth the effort on a 3000+ lol
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water cooling helps somewhat but not all people are willing to put the time and effort into setting up water cooling.. and even then you're severly limited with the CPU's IHS which has zinc plating i believe.. and some not-so-good thermal compound underneath it.. ultimately making there be no point to getting water cooling unless you are willing to remove the IHS which is extremely risky and could just destroy the cpu.
thats why i went with water cooling and sanded down the IHS somewhat. :)
 
or spend $105 on newegg for a PD 805, they have been clocked at 4GHz before, now, this isnt very realistic, but you can easily do 3.2-3.4GHz and it will out preform the processors you were looking at
 
Ku-sama said:
or spend $105 on newegg for a PD 805, they have been clocked at 4GHz before, now, this isnt very realistic, but you can easily do 3.2-3.4GHz and it will out preform the processors you were looking at
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Actually I think it was 3.6 GHz on stock cooling. Plus depending on what board you get, you could upgrade to Conroe later and have Vista run easier.
 
actually it will easily do 3.6 probably 3.8...
it dropped to $105? wow... i might even suggest that for a friend! not the best gaming chip.. but it is running at 3.8ghz and $105!!!
but yea, 2.8ghz can be done with any single core AMD fairly easily...
but WOW i saw some other benchmarks, conroe will be good!
of course, it might not be worth it since Physx cards are going to relieve the processor of a lot of its load very soon... plus games with become multithreaded and dual core will be utilized more so than before.
Vista will run easily on any processor. RAM and hard drive speed will bottleneck more than a processor will.
conroe will in fact be the fastest chip on the market very soon! (for most apps)

btw monkey sims... if you're mostly using it for gaming then get a 7600gt its much better than the 7600gs.
 
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Ku-sama said:
id say get the 805 and the GT then getting something more expensive and a GS
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don't spend money on stuff you won't use.
Mobo: ASUS A8S-X Socket 939
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131525
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whether the motherboard is an ASUS or not, don't get anything but an NForce chipset. NForce 4 of some sort... NForce 4 Ultra if you like, NForce SLI or NForce 4 ... just getting a different worse chipset isn't worth the small amount of money you save.
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ill be using it for surfing the net, burning cd's/dvd's, some gaming
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you only need a sempron for those applications.
if you're overclocking, you must get a sempron... ordered one for my uncle and o/ced it for him to 2ghz from 1.6ghz... i bet it could do 2.4ghz pretty easily, i'll try that later (since it was shipped today and i built it today lol)
how much money do you have to spend, and what games do you want to play? if you just want to play like CS:Source or ut2004 then you don't need a great video card or anything...
budget? give us some numbers :)
 
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that was addressed to monkeysims sry.. he left a link with an asus board with pci-e and 939 which is fine but its not an nforce...
i edited the post..
 
Ku-sama said:
id say get the 805 and the GT then getting something more expensive and a GS
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this is what i meant... im not sure if im interpreting you right but are you saying to buy the 805 because it'll last, and then upgrade later?
APJ101... thats what i meant lol
 
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