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clockworkjames:
For budget builds and small pc's there is no reason not to take a cheap 775 socket and OC it, the AM2 socket is not the brilliant breakthrough the 754 socket was and I don't see amd taking the balll off intel for awesome low cost chips any time soon. There is not alot of point in buying amd, intel is still bang for buck on the core2 duo and quad.

Reed:
1) If the guy is looking for a cheap computer to mainly watch DVDs, and maybe play games, I really doubt he's interested in OCing his CPU.
2) 775 is absolutely dead, it is no longer on Intel's roadmap, there will be no future processors coming out for it.
3) AMD will be releasing new AM3 processors for the next few years
4) The AM3 phenom II's are actually quite competitive with C2Ds
5) If he goes for this cheap build, in a year or two from now if he wants to upgrade he can just buy the latest generation phenom and drop it into this board, no problem. If he wanted to upgrade from Intel he'd have to scrap the entire motherboard and buy an i5 or i7

clockworkjames:
Or he could get more for his money NOW with a 775 taking advantage of how it is no longer flagship instead of paying through the nose for some new shit that is kinda pointless considering the value it will give... you are comparing an old standard with a new one and saying it is slightly better, OH REALLY? YOU MEAN THE XBOX360 IS MOAR POWERFUL THAN THE PS2?

No shit, but core2's are still available and cheap. Buy it for cheap, great performance for years. Job done.

Reed:
Look, he really doesn't need anything more than what I suggested to watch DVDs and maybe play some games. My way when he decides he has a little money and wants to put something nicer in he will be able to with little trouble. If he got an LGA775 then he would need to replace the CPU, RAM, and motherboard. I pointed out the phenom II to show that he will be able to put something better than anything available on LGA775 in a year or two without having to change his platform. I wasn't trying to say that AMD is better because it's latest generation of products is equal to Intel's last generation.

Alex C:
There's nothing wrong with comparing a new standard to an old standard when both are available for competitive prices and are used to run the same software.



For what it's worth though, I am rather partial to LGA 775. My ol' E6600 still performs rather admirably; it's my damned decrepit GPU that's a problem (a theory that was tested out when I took a friend's GPU for a spin for a week after his own PC's hard drive failed.)

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