Hello everybody.
At least I decide to leave my old duron 800.
I'm more an AMD guy for cost reasons, I've been thinking in buying a new computer for month now, but I was only considering the AMD offer.
The new pemtium E2160 changed my mind.
So I want to put together an Intel based computer.
The point is that most guides and premade config don't seem up to date (most are stuck with X2 3800+) and I'm completely ignorant in regard to Intel motherboard (I've tried but so far I'm still completely lost...).
A little reminder the new pemtium E2160 is a dual core based on the core micro architecture that runs @1.8GHz (9x200) and supports 1Mo of L2 cache. I plan to overclock it from scratch (not too hight anyway).
For reference before I changed my mind I was going with :
X2 3800+ (~70 euros)
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 (geForce61) (~50 euros)
Kingston ValueRAM 1Go DDR2 PC5300 (667MHz) CAS5 x2 ( 2x 35 euros)
So my budget was around 190 euros/$
I can go up to 220 max.
What would be your choice is this price range for Ram+mobo?
Do you think the base fan will be enought, I plan to run the cpu at at least 2.3GHz?
Thanks from a lost AMD boy in an Intel world...
At least I decide to leave my old duron 800.
I'm more an AMD guy for cost reasons, I've been thinking in buying a new computer for month now, but I was only considering the AMD offer.
The new pemtium E2160 changed my mind.
So I want to put together an Intel based computer.
The point is that most guides and premade config don't seem up to date (most are stuck with X2 3800+) and I'm completely ignorant in regard to Intel motherboard (I've tried but so far I'm still completely lost...).
A little reminder the new pemtium E2160 is a dual core based on the core micro architecture that runs @1.8GHz (9x200) and supports 1Mo of L2 cache. I plan to overclock it from scratch (not too hight anyway).
For reference before I changed my mind I was going with :
X2 3800+ (~70 euros)
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 (geForce61) (~50 euros)
Kingston ValueRAM 1Go DDR2 PC5300 (667MHz) CAS5 x2 ( 2x 35 euros)
So my budget was around 190 euros/$
I can go up to 220 max.
What would be your choice is this price range for Ram+mobo?
Do you think the base fan will be enought, I plan to run the cpu at at least 2.3GHz?
Thanks from a lost AMD boy in an Intel world...