Spec please
- Thread starter Calum
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Hi, thanks for the greeting.
I already own a copy of windows thanks and just at this moment have been given a 120gb maxtor hard drive that belonged to my friend - lucky me! tried it in my current pc and works fine so hd won't be necessary either. Just looking around the shop and thought would the opteron 170 processor be better than say a x2 3800 or even a 4400 (see my quickly drawn up spec below) - i'm really split between the 3 and am wondering would the extra cache do much toward system performance?
AMD Opteron UP 170 Dual Core San Diego 2.0GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-148-AM) 1
£274.95 £274.95
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler (HS-015-ZA) 1
£29.95 £29.95
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS) 1
£64.95 £64.95
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£59.95 £59.95
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-121-SP) 1
£179.95 £179.95
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£89.95 £89.95
Subtotal £699.70
VAT £122.45
Total £822.15
I already own a copy of windows thanks and just at this moment have been given a 120gb maxtor hard drive that belonged to my friend - lucky me! tried it in my current pc and works fine so hd won't be necessary either. Just looking around the shop and thought would the opteron 170 processor be better than say a x2 3800 or even a 4400 (see my quickly drawn up spec below) - i'm really split between the 3 and am wondering would the extra cache do much toward system performance?
AMD Opteron UP 170 Dual Core San Diego 2.0GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-148-AM) 1
£274.95 £274.95
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler (HS-015-ZA) 1
£29.95 £29.95
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS) 1
£64.95 £64.95
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£59.95 £59.95
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-121-SP) 1
£179.95 £179.95
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£89.95 £89.95
Subtotal £699.70
VAT £122.45
Total £822.15
I've never overclocked a cpu before so would definitely consider it, and as the 170 is only clocked 200mhz below the 4400 i wouldn't think it would be too hard, that's partially why i thought the zalman cooler would help, would it be better getting a 3800 though, and spending the extra cash on a 1900xt?
Thanks for help concerning the cpu.