saving up some cash but am just wondering if i should go for a 4800 x2 or go for a conroe i should have about 400 in 2 month at which point the 4800 should have droped abit, if i go the conroe root i have to get a new mobo and possible new mem which should be both in my 400 budget but there is nothing wrong with the mobo i have it just needs a new cpu ( currently on a amd 64 4000+ with a asus a8n 32 mobo ) thoughts ??????
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amd x2 or conroe ????
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I will be selling up & building a new conroe rig around SeptIs there any reason everyone keeps saying you will need new RAM for Conroe? I was under the impression that Conroe worked with all current standards, including DDR333/400, whereas it was only socket AM2 that requires DDR2 RAM due to the on-die memory controller. 
The motherboards do cost way too much at the moment though, which is partly why I am waiting until September or even next year. Should be new chipsets by then, at lower prices.
The motherboards do cost way too much at the moment though, which is partly why I am waiting until September or even next year. Should be new chipsets by then, at lower prices.
I'll give it a think then. My current setup, by my standards, is easily good enough for another 12 months so I don't think I'll be making any unnecessary upgrades such as going from 2GB DDR400 to 2GB DDR2.sr4470 said:
I wasn't planning to go Conroe until around September anyway, so I'll check back here to see the score then. Hopefully some kind soul will do some benchies on Conroe with DDR400 and DDR2 to see if there's any real difference.
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sr4470 said:
I did not think that those boards would work with conroe at all?
There are 2... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=101408
Only AGP though.
I would get the DDRII RAM.
Only AGP though.
I would get the DDRII RAM.
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A decent Conroe board (for overclocking) will set you back around £150+.
I wouldn't want to put a Conroe on an older chipset that supports DDR and AGP.
Talk about bottlenecks.
Tempting as it is, Conroe (for me) demands a whole new platform to get the best out of it, so I'm keeping my current rig (Opty 170) for another year, when I'll upgrade the whole system.
I wouldn't want to put a Conroe on an older chipset that supports DDR and AGP.
Talk about bottlenecks.
Tempting as it is, Conroe (for me) demands a whole new platform to get the best out of it, so I'm keeping my current rig (Opty 170) for another year, when I'll upgrade the whole system.
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Digital Punk said:A decent Conroe board (for overclocking) will set you back around £150+.
I wouldn't want to put a Conroe on an older chipset that supports DDR and AGP.
Talk about bottlenecks.
Tempting as it is, Conroe (for me) demands a whole new platform to get the best out of it, so I'm keeping my current rig (Opty 170) for another year, when I'll upgrade the whole system.
no current, pre-order boards are very expensive but are only the very very high end boards with everything you don't really need. IE gigabyte 12 phase power, more expensive caps, quad bios and a bunch of other stuff that will not more than 0.5% effect overclockability or reliability of the board. gigabyte will as per usual have a very cheap board with 4-6 sata ports, 1 ide, 2 firewire, 6 usb2.0, normal phase power, 1 pci-e 16x, probo a 4x and a 1x aswell, 2-3 pci and overclock pretty much exactly the same and have same bios options as all boards. on athlon 939 setups i could get 99% of the same overclock on the £55 k8n-pro(think that might be the 754, forget the 939 board name) as i could on the £150 dfi sli boards. there will be plenty of much cheaper boards. same way you can get a dfi board for £150 on release, or the cut down(but identically performing(and as it turns out, modable into sli) board for £90.
as for memory, it would be fairly backwards to get a 939 setup new now as its almost end of life, will drop in value a lot and when you upgrade your parts won't sell as high as am2 bits would. selling your ddr now and buying ddr2 will cost less than selling your ddr in a year and buying ddr2 because no one will be buying ddr anymore.
also a E6600 is a good margin faster than the fx 62 in some situations at stock, but these chips are on air doing 3.4Ghz pretty easily, whereas a fx 62 will not get that high. right now amd are (ok next month) behind on performance and also for cost, which is a very new situation for amd.
so tempted