Brisbane or Windsor?

What is the better choice for a $100 +/- Am2 cpu?

Brisbane is newer. Windsors I have heard (couple months ago) are better due to the Brisbanes flawed design.. it might be corrected by now though.

super bad *** CPU for the price. u could hit 3Ghz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103046

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103056
more cashe and should hit 3Ghz. also 120.00
this would be 5-10% faster. does this help?

if i was buying something cheap i would go for the 3600+ cause they OC great and there **** cheap and u can get them again.

Thank you! Now what kind of mobo would it take to hit 3ghz on the cheaper cpu?

u want SLI?
or do u want to be able to run the later and better quad cores? if u want the later and better quad cores then ur going to spend more money but even at that u should get better ocs from the newer spider mobos and u could run X-fire.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130048
good MSI mobo for the price and u can have SLI and oc pretty good. I have this mobo and the only thing that sucks is u cant adj the voltage on the NB and i think that holds me back from running my hyper transport high.

GIGABYTE is a fav mobo among a lot of people. they seems to make a GREAT mobo for the price. i dont know what one i would go with.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138074
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138059

one is SLI and the other is not. Very cheap and know to OC very very well. I have played with the first one and a 550SE. you can get lost in the BIOS for days.

CougarSE said:

Thank you! Now what kind of mobo would it take to hit 3ghz on the cheaper cpu?

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I like my Nvidia 590 based board, but they seem to still be about $150 on newegg. But worth it. I'm not sure how some of the newer cheaper chipsets perform.