Agreed with most, if money is not an issue, the P4 is rocking the house right now. In terms of power and performance, AMD has fallen behind Intel as of late, so I'd go with a Pentium if at all possible.
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Agreed with most, if money is not an issue, the P4 is rocking the house right now. In terms of power and performance, AMD has fallen behind Intel as of late, so I'd go with a Pentium if at all possible.
Which one?
Hmm... ooh! That one!
if you want t overclock easily get and athlon xp thoroughbred B processor. the A's overclock fine but initial tests of some who have gotten B's say they OC much farther. if you need more info hit up the sharkeyextreme boards since most people here are too ignorant of PC's.
Sorry, only athlon for me guys ;) I am planning on an asus board and already bought a gig of DDR RAM. I also need help finding the best mobo I can. I have a hard time choosing since there are so many variables. I wish there was some sort of mobo site where you could minimize the results on it (like, has to have nforce 2 chipset :D) Anyway so far I am only able to get it if i wait til feb, or buy a mobo with it. Maybe I'll just get the 2700+ and upgrade later.
Either way, I hear the heatsinks it comes with suck. Should I pay the extra money just for the warranty and buy a new heatsink, or will they one it comes with work fine? (money isnt a problem, but i always get the best price i can)
Stick with the asus mobo and for the heat sink try coolermaster they are pretty good.
Alright, I've decided on the athlon xp 2700+ and the ASUS A7N8X motherboard - quite possibly the best board to EVER grace the earth. I'm tellin ya this board has EVERYTHING! dual onbaord LAN, onboard (good) sound, nfroce 2, dual ddr, all that stuff and soooo much more! Now i can scratch that 10/100 card and sound card off my list of trivial items to buy ;). Anyway thanks for the help guys
You got the one I got! You took my recommendation! You rule!
It's a fantastic board though. I was really surprised at how well the on board sound works. With some nice speakers it sounds wonderful. DVD's rock too! And be sure to check the manual for placing the RAM. For that duel RAM feature thingamabob I think they want you to put it in 1 and 3, 2 and 3 or 1, 2 and 3 (not sure how many DIMMS you have). And I think this board only supports up to the 2800+. I would recommend you get a better heat sink if your going to overclock. My 2100+ (non-OCed) idles at 43C/109F. At high usage it goes up to 120F. But it is stable, and I've had no problems (I have the heatsink that it came with and 2 other fans running).
Yup, I'm very excited for it to arrive!
Right now I have 8 fans total in the case (5 case, 2 power supply, 1 GPU [if that counts]). The only thing I'm not sure about is then entire heatsink/fan deal and how to put it on!!! This is my frist time building a computer, so I research everything one part at a time. Now all I have left is the whole heatsink/fan thing!
I know you put arctic silver on the top of the prcessor and then the heatsink fan thing on that (are they connected?) I was looking at the volcano 11 for my fan (is it a heatsink too?) My case will be nice and cold >: )
make sure when you push down the latch on the hs/fan that the pressure point is right in the middle of the cpu. i almost snapped my xp1800 because i figured it only went on one way. and only put the arctic on the little black box and not on anything else.
rumpy that temp is a little high. im running an 1800 (overclocked to 2300 speeds) with a thermaltake volcano 7 hs/fan and only to regular case fans and im running between 30-35C with a full load.
:D is an xp 2700+ a Tbred A or Tbred B??? I'm gonna get a volcano 11 and OC that sucker like NOBODIES business ;)