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VisEtVirtus

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I'm building a new AMD based rig, how does everything look? Will I get some nice performance out of all this?

AMD 64 Athlon 3200+
ABIT "KV8-MAX3" K8T800 mobo
ATI RADEON X800 PRO
OCZ Performance Series (512x2)
2x Maxtor/Quantum 36.7GB 10,000RPM set in Raid0
Seagate 160GB 7200RPM SATA (for backup)
Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum

I will be cooling my cpu and gpu with a watercooling setup. Anyone recommend anything different for my rig?
 
Well, everything you have chosen is the best you can get now, but coming soon is the 939 socket AMD 64's. They are going to replace the home use in 940 sockets and give the Opteron socket 940 and give the FX line the 939 socket, with choices of either 512K L2 or 1MB L2. This will bring a cheaper line-up for the FX series and offer a more diverse choice. The 939 tests are going on now and results will be done sometime at the end of the week. I'd wait about the 3200+ 64 for now and wait to see how the 939 comes out, what the prices are like, and how the performance is. Otherwise, everything looks as fast as you can get these days:D
 
Oh yeah, the 3200+ DTR. Sorry, forgot all about it. If you are going to build this immediatelly, look into the 3200+ DTR line for better performance than the standard ClawHammer-core 3200's. I don't know much about them, but everybody has said some impressive stuff about their memory bandwidth and overclocking abilities.
 
To make the things complicated and fun,
just for socket 754 price-performance platform,
there are at least four version of A64 3200+, two revisons C0 and CG, and then the usual stepping choice which there is not much information about, ....

Three are 1 MB L2, ClawHammer core
- desktop version 3200+ ADA3200AEP5AR 89W 1.5 V, 2000 MHz <--- newegg has C0 revision AP
- mobile DTR version 3200+ ADA3200BEX5AR 81.5W 1.5V, 2000 MHz <--- newegg has
- mobile version 3200+ AMN3200BIX5AR 62W 1.4V, 2000 MHz <--- newegg has

One is 512 KB L2, NewCastle core
- desktop version 3200+ ADA3200AEP4AX 89W 1.5 V, 2200 MHz

Among them, time and tests will tell which one would be preferred for overclocking.

Revision CG is usually considered newer and better, ....

For the 754 motherboards, wait for those with chipsets 250 GB or K8T800 Pro which should be on the street/internet very soon, ....


Further, there there will be the 939 CPU and platform, delivering estimated 30-80% higher performance for memory intensive applications, ...., averaged 5-10% for others.

So things are changing, if situation permits, I would wait and need more research, ...


For more details:
A64 CPUs, chipsets, motherboards
 
Wait and see??? ok, I can do that. Depending on the price of the new socket 939's I might get one instead.

Thanks for the opinions and info everyone.
 
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