hey guys

well after having so much fun ocing this 3.0c im wanting to build another intel rig. i know the the amd fx chip is the way to go right now but man i dont have 600 bucks for a cpu. i mean for the price of a fx-53 cpu i can get a new intel cpu motherboard and ddr2 memory! here have a peek at the parts im considering.

first up is the mb. abit AG8 i915P

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=&depa=0

heres the other mb its a AA8 925X . i still dont know the differance in the two? so for now i got both as my choice!

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=&depa=0

now for the cpu i would use either the 2.8 or the 3.0c im not sure yet? im thinking the 3.0 my self but we will see.

heres the 2.8
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=&depa=0

i wont show you the 3.0c cause its the same box as the 2.8 not like theres anything diff? anyways i wont be able to start on this build until after i pay a few debts. im thinking that maybe the prices will be lower and some of the bugs may have been fixed by the time i actualy buy this system. anyways thats what i want to do. anyone have anything to say about it? always up for input....

thx perc,

well you got your asus and you got your abit both mb's seems to do real well? ive always had good luck with abit so i may as well keep on using them until they give me a reason not to...

perc,

ok cool i was just wondering if there was any particular reason you chose the Abit but you are like me ill stick with asus until they start making S**t. Whay PSU are you going to use in this beast?

I'm starting to look at upgrading my system as well and i read this article over at [H]ard|OCP.  If you want to oc these new boards you need to have a power supply with a 24pin power connection because of the drain from the pci express port.  This mostly has to do with the Nvidia 6800 series but still.  I'm having a hard time justifing the new prices for this stuff when it doesnt perfrom any better than the stuff that is already out.  PCIe graphics cards dont really show any performance gains as of yet although i know in the long run it will be better.  DDR2 memeory is also pretty expensive and unless you get it to run at 667 it performes worse than PC4000.

BlackHawk

I read the review on [H] and I saw that these new sockets actually O/C pretty good and are able to get some decent memory bandwidth.  Still, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.  There's nothing really groundbreaking that seperates them fromt he previous P4's because DDR2 isn't all that great yet.  I also think its pretty stupid to put the pins on the acutal motherboards...<sarcasm>motherboard companies are going to love that</sarcasm>.

I'm waiting till the price is right on an A64 setup.

Yeah i would really love to have one of the new 939 socket cpus but even the 3500 cost about $500.  For around $215 i can get a 3Ghz or even a 3.2Ghz for around $275 and oc them past 3.5Ghz.  Twice the price for a cpu that doesnt perform that much better isnt worth it at all.

BlackHawk

dude first off i get 4gigs on air with my chip mind tellin me its inpossible? second off you think we are all stupid? i know what the fx-53 is and how it performs so quit acting like i dont. thrid off the 3200 is not faster then my intel 3.0c oced to 4 gigs i had one and i have the bench marks it flat out looses in all tests nothing the 3200 did was faster then this 3.0c. the fx series yes i agree there is no comparing the two chips BUT the 3000 and the 3200 64 chip LOL yeah right! why do you think i sold my 3200 system? cause my intel wiped its ass all over the place!

3900mhz on air. ill look for the 4gig screen shot i have of it on air...

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ok 3983mhz not quite 4gigs but dammit man close enough....

perc,

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I've seen a couple of people get to 4ghz+ on air.... it's not common, but its possible.  I'm sorry but a P4 O/C'd to 3.6ghz+ is going to be faster than a A64 3000+ or 3200+ in MOST cases.