First off i'm trying to decide between an e8400 and and e8500, and I will be OCing it. The difference in prices is a flat 20 bucks. Also I'm in the market for all my other parts so if anyone has any suggestions i'm looking to stay in the 800-1000 price range.
Btw I've been an AMD junkie for years and every rig i've built was an AMD, but i've been hearing their losing their performance edge by a HUGE margin now, before their was only a itty bitty difference between the same equiv AMD vs Intel, with AMD winning on account of price, Though hearing that now adays the performance drop off is so huge that the lower price isn't worth it anymore.
I've heard that these two can be clocked to 4.7 on air cooling, but i'm thinking the 8500 might make it there easier since it's clock is higher to begin with. I'm looking to try and push it to 4.7 if at all possible. So i'll prolly be asking for help with that later from anyone willing to. As for the rest of my rig.
It's gonna be hard with my 1000 dollar budget to get everything I need. I will have to make due with parts I have in some cases. For example I'll have to try and use my current full-tower and clean it out and slap some new case fans on. I already had a 500W antec PSU that I recently purchased. Gonna have to keep my current soundcard or use onboard sound if the mobo has it.
The mem i'm looking for is the next step up memory from DDR2 800, I think its DDR2 10xx something, my MB will be a 1333 FSB and im looking to get one with a lot of upgrade head AND OC headroom. Meaning SLI Supported, Quad Core supported, and able to support my memory.
Looking for about 4gbs to max out gaming and OC performances. My FX card I was looking at a GX280, but if I can't budget that in i'd have to look for a cheaper solution. I have a 22 inch monitor, I heard when figuring out if you want to SLI or not that monitor size has something to do with it. I just want a machine that won't need upgraded for another 3-4 years or so.
i've heard if you have a good combo of OC'ed RAM, mixed with an OC'ed Processor (around 4.7 sounded good to me), and a GTX280 or Dual SLI combo from a set of 9800 GT/xcards that you can push crysis pretty high and have decent frames. I'm using Crysis as a comparison here because it's a very hungry game so pretty good to use as a gauge on how powerful your gaming rig is.
-- Now for the interesting read. Let's get down to the current system I have right now. Get ready to question why I have not thought about upgrading until now.. Here it goes!
My current PC:
AMD XP 2800+ Barton Processor (Yes, folks, A SINGLE CORE 2.0ghz PROCESSOR)
ABit NF7-S Rev 2.0 Motherboard 400MHZ FSB
XP Professional SP2
2 GB Corsair DDR400 RAM (Yes that is DDR, not DDR2 or DDR3)
Radeon X1650 Pro, 512MB DDR2
500 Watt Antec Basiq
SoundBlaster Live (Sufficiant since I use a headset and not a surround sound system)
Btw I've been an AMD junkie for years and every rig i've built was an AMD, but i've been hearing their losing their performance edge by a HUGE margin now, before their was only a itty bitty difference between the same equiv AMD vs Intel, with AMD winning on account of price, Though hearing that now adays the performance drop off is so huge that the lower price isn't worth it anymore.
I've heard that these two can be clocked to 4.7 on air cooling, but i'm thinking the 8500 might make it there easier since it's clock is higher to begin with. I'm looking to try and push it to 4.7 if at all possible. So i'll prolly be asking for help with that later from anyone willing to. As for the rest of my rig.
It's gonna be hard with my 1000 dollar budget to get everything I need. I will have to make due with parts I have in some cases. For example I'll have to try and use my current full-tower and clean it out and slap some new case fans on. I already had a 500W antec PSU that I recently purchased. Gonna have to keep my current soundcard or use onboard sound if the mobo has it.
The mem i'm looking for is the next step up memory from DDR2 800, I think its DDR2 10xx something, my MB will be a 1333 FSB and im looking to get one with a lot of upgrade head AND OC headroom. Meaning SLI Supported, Quad Core supported, and able to support my memory.
Looking for about 4gbs to max out gaming and OC performances. My FX card I was looking at a GX280, but if I can't budget that in i'd have to look for a cheaper solution. I have a 22 inch monitor, I heard when figuring out if you want to SLI or not that monitor size has something to do with it. I just want a machine that won't need upgraded for another 3-4 years or so.
i've heard if you have a good combo of OC'ed RAM, mixed with an OC'ed Processor (around 4.7 sounded good to me), and a GTX280 or Dual SLI combo from a set of 9800 GT/xcards that you can push crysis pretty high and have decent frames. I'm using Crysis as a comparison here because it's a very hungry game so pretty good to use as a gauge on how powerful your gaming rig is.
-- Now for the interesting read. Let's get down to the current system I have right now. Get ready to question why I have not thought about upgrading until now.. Here it goes!
My current PC:
AMD XP 2800+ Barton Processor (Yes, folks, A SINGLE CORE 2.0ghz PROCESSOR)
ABit NF7-S Rev 2.0 Motherboard 400MHZ FSB
XP Professional SP2
2 GB Corsair DDR400 RAM (Yes that is DDR, not DDR2 or DDR3)
Radeon X1650 Pro, 512MB DDR2
500 Watt Antec Basiq
SoundBlaster Live (Sufficiant since I use a headset and not a surround sound system)
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