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boogieman

boogieman

boogieman

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Hi All

I hope you can help me or point me in the right direction, i'm just about to build a new PC for gaming and video / music editing, I currantly have theAMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ Black Edition came from here and i'm still looking for silent or near silent heatsink that will fit and cool this chip and stable temp, i am looking for a good motherboard either SLI or Crossfire not sure which to go for so need a help. so here the short list. if you got any better one to add please fill free i am all ears.

Motherboard

Asus CROSSHAIR nForce 590 SLi
MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX

Ram 800 or 1066

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz SLI-Ready Edition Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2


Heatsink

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B CPU Cooler
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Asus Silent Knight II CPU Cooler

All this going into Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case or Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case

Thanks you for you help.... Boogieman
 
I reccommend the MSI mobo, mainly because its a socket AM2+ which means that in the future you could always buy a Phenom X4 and use it at its full settings.

As for RAM go for the second link, better specs at lower price.

Heatsink.. the Thermalright 120 is the best, but is also the most expensive, The Tuniq Tower is very good, cheaper, and comes with a fan already so it gets my vote unless you want the best air cooler and are willing to pay for it.

For the case, the Antec one is great, a bit on the noisy side though and it does get dusty if you dont clean it, the airflow comes with a price, its still a great case, its the one i use as well, dont know about the coolermaster though.
 
Can anyone recommend which board to go for, any owners out there with a AMD AM264 6400+ CPU which is either SLI or Crossfire ? and a Heatsink to fit.


Thanks
Boogieman
 
The 790FX boards seem to be pretty kickass and are clocking K8's better than any of the previous chipsets, check out the AMD section of xtremesystems.org for reviews and results. They're all pretty new and all the boards bios need work at this point, so far the MSI has not been the most favoured board in this respect but there's probably little to choose between any of them msi, gigabyte or asus.

I ran my 5600 at 6400 speeds on a Scythe Ninja. It coped, but got a bit warm. The Thermalright Ultra 120 seems to be the best of the crop these days, but I went to water.
 
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boogieman said:
i been doing so more surfing .... and came across these board to add to the list which one can anyone help ??? as now my brain is getting fryed .....

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 AMD 790FX

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 AMD 790FX
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Compare the specs, the DS5 is the "budget" version, less sata ports and raid options, less PCI slots, single not dual network ports and probably not all solid caps. If you don't need the extra features you'd most likely not notice the difference though.
 
boogieman said:
Which is better SLI or Crossfire ?
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Neither is worth considering unless you'll be using the highest spec graphics cards from nVidia (sli) or ATI (crossfire) as 2 lower spec cards are typically < 1 higher spec'd card.

Although nVidia ultimately has the fastest cards atm, AMD is developing it's AM2+ Spider platform around crossfire as it owns ATI, and it's shaping up to be pretty competitive wrt price/performance as well as benefiting from the integrated approach they can take to its design, so I'd stick with the 790FX motherboard/crossfire option if you're staying with AMD. If you do want SLI and an AM2+ motherboard you'll have to wait too, as they aren't out yet.
 
are the solid ones actually better? or are they just normal ones with a metal cap stuck over them so you can't bend them and snap them off (I'm always worried I'll do that by accident)

If they're better, why?
 
As the name suggests, the interior isn't liquid like the standard electrolytic capacitors and work differently, so they don't leak. The problem with the standard caps is that sometimes pressure used to build up inside the capacitor and if it couldn't escape easily, they will leak, or worse, could lead to the body sagging or even exploding, spilling conductive liquid all over your motherboard, short-circuiting everything and pretty much taking everything else with it. Solid caps are something like 16x more durable due to this.
 
boogieman said:
i been doing so more surfing .... and came across these board to add to the list which one can anyone help ??? as now my brain is getting fryed .....

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 AMD 790FX
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Which Ram would be best for the above mother board as i can't have the OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel ram due to mother layout.

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)

OCZ 8GB (4x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Quad Channel Platinum Low Latency XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P8008GQ)

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz SLI-Ready Edition Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N800SR4GK)

Boogie man
 
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