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Building a New PC
Symp:
Yeah, really need to go with 939, and you might want to look at A 3200+. A few more bucks for a even better chip, and I'vee heard they overclock fairly well.
If you don't need another hard drive and DVD drive, I suggest you wait and get them later, and put the money you saved on them towards the other parts.
I'd give you a good link to penny-aracde's forum topic on what to buy, but their forums are currently down....
Psychotism:
--- Quote from: elcapitan ---FWIW, I'm running a two-year old Gigabyte mainboard atm (with an AthlonXP 2500+) and it's holding together just fine. The chip is starting to run a little hot though, and as a result the fan noise is almost intolerable.
--- End quote ---
I'm running a similar set-up, only with an AthlonXP 2400+ and I'm having a similar problem. It produces a lot of heat, but thankfully the fans inside are enough to keep it cool indefinitely... Damn thing's turned into a space heater... lol.
On the plus side I've never had a more reliable computer... seems to be much better than those which people have spent in excess of $2000 canadian... I've probably spent around $600 less than that...
nihilist:
Hrm. I've got a pretty even spread of CPUs in my machines: Celerons, P2s, P3s, P3-based Xeons, Athlon, Athlon MPs, P4s, AMD X2s...
The most solidly reliable? Intel-based. Not so much because of the CPU itself, but for the chipset. My current nForce-4 based system took nearly four months of constant tweaking to finally find a stable setup. That's just balls.
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