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So I went for it, got the Gigabyte P961-S3 or whatever it is, BE-2400 AthlonX2 (the new 45w core from their 65nm fabs), 2gigs of G.Skill PC6400 (newegg had it $40 off). I also got a WD 160gb drive, it looked like the best performer of the sub $50 drives. I'm really hoping my video card is not dead, otherwise I'll be using the crappy on-board video for awhile. Grand total cost was right under $300. I could of spent the same and got better RAM, mobo, or CPU but I figured that what I got is good enough and the added HDD will save my ass if my current drive is dead or at least boost performance a bit over my ancient IDE drive. If my video card is dead it looks like the new 8800GT coming out has pushed prices down for 8600GTs so I think I can get one of those for $80 or so if I need to, maybe even cheaper. Overall I think my new system should turn out to be either about the same performance as my old OC'd Opteron or possibly a bit faster (maybe a good 10%). Or maybe as much as 25% faster if I wind up needing a new vid card. Down the road I can throw in a quad cored Phenom and upgrade the video card and get a few more years of useability out of it, in the meantime this should be good enough for at least another year or two. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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WTF kind of mobo is that, typically when a manufacture puts the letter "P" in its name tag, it runs an Intel, not an AMD. So could you please clarify that a bit because I'm wiggin out here over what you're doing to yourself.
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Lone Wolf wrote:WTF kind of mobo is that, typically when a manufacture puts the letter "P" in its name tag, it runs an Intel, not an AMD. So could you please clarify that a bit because I'm wiggin out here over what you're doing to yourself. Wait you mean Intels require a different kind of motherboard?! hahaha, just kidding. Dude I've been building my own systems and overclocking for more than a decade. My first computer was a 286. I remember the old days when you had to configure everything with jumpers, hell I remember the first Abit boards that let you OC from within the BIOS back on I think the FX or BX chipset, it was back in the P2 era. I'm not buying an intel motherboard with an AMD cpu :)
here is the board I got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034 Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:hahaha, just kidding.
lol you got me there. I was like, you Asshat!   Quote:Posting related image due to my inability to formulate an intelligent response. BlooDz wrote:i cant type good im stupid
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I was like WTF, and then WTF!!!!!! and then WTFFFFFFF!!!!!!!! Oh, haha, very funny. But why get a mobo with only 1 PCI-E 16x slot on it instead of one with two?
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Lone Wolf wrote:I was like WTF, and then WTF!!!!!! and then WTFFFFFFF!!!!!!!! Oh, haha, very funny.
But why get a mobo with only 1 PCI-E 16x slot on it instead of one with two? Never going to run SLI again. It's just not worth it for me. I used to have one of the fastest gaming machines you could build, back when that extra 10fps made a difference. These days I am happy as long as I can chug along with playable framerates. Graphics are so good now I don't feel bad having to turn the fancy shit off. If my 7600gt can't cut it I'll spend $100 on an 8600gt. When that can't cut it I'll get a 9600gt, or whatever offers the better performance at a sub $150 level. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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