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Daston

Daston

Daston

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Hi guys

Building a new system and need advise on a CPU. Wish to stay with AMD.

My current system is............

Asus SLI-SE Skt 939
AMD X2 4400+ (oc'd to 2.5ghz)
2gb Geil Ram
2x 8800 GTX's
Enermax Galaxy 1000W PSU

What would be the best CPU to go for that will allow my 8800's to run at a faster speed (think my cpu is causing a bottle neck at the mo)

Cheers I have a high budget so any sugestions welcome
 
Your not going to get much better than a 4400 cpu tbh. Skt939 is dying(dead?) and a complete overhaul would be required for your 8800's to see any benifit imo. I know you don't want to stray from AMD but atm intel are giving AMD a trouncing with there C2D range.
 
Yeah I was planning on going AM2 with the idea of going quad core when AMD release it. Willthe FX62 be any quicker than my 4400? Also running along side will be 4gb of corsair XMS2 Dominator RAM
 
Daston said:
Yeah I was planning on going AM2 with the idea of going quad core when AMD release it. Willthe FX62 be any quicker than my 4400? Also running along side will be 4gb of corsair XMS2 Dominator RAM
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I would not bother with AM2.
Either get a good stepping 939 chips, Opteron are doing well ATM & clock to at least 2.8 or if you really need to go for more right now get a C2D setup or wait for AMD Quadcore AM3 DDR3 like me.
 
Final8y said:
I would not bother with AM2.
Either get a good stepping 939 chips, Opteron are doing well ATM & clock to at least 2.8 or if you really need to go for more right now get a C2D setup or wait for AMD Quadcore AM3 DDR3 like me.
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ahh I see so quad core wont be on the same socket?
 
Tomshardware did a test and found that even quadcore isn't pushing two 8800's to the limit.
 
dont listen to people, the AMD X2 proccessors are still very good, yes they arnt AS good as C2D but there not far behind and something good like a 5000 or FX 62 (even a 4200) will be fine for 8800 cards.
 
tomanders91 said:
dont listen to people, the AMD X2 proccessors are still very good, yes they arnt AS good as C2D but there not far behind and something good like a 5000 or FX 62 (even a 4200) will be fine for 8800 cards.
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AM2 athlon X2 + 8800 will be good system, not far behind a conroe + 8800 system at all, 775 motherboards can be horribly expensive as well
 
Gashman said:
AM2 athlon X2 + 8800 will be good system, not far behind a conroe + 8800 system at all, 775 motherboards can be horribly expensive as well
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The thing is I could quite happily go and get an intel board but from what I have been reading the C2D quad is nothing more than just 2 C2D stuck together where as the AMD quadcore (X4?) will be a seperate chip or something like that lol
 
Thing is if hes moving from 939 to AM2 it means new mobo, cpu and RAM. May as well get conroe really as even a cheap E4300 can be clocked so its much faster than an FX62

Also, dont your GTX's need 2x 16x PCI-E lanes to work properly in SLI? I thought the asus A8n-SLI was only 2x 8x in SLI mode :confused:
 
Gashman said:
AM2 athlon X2 + 8800 will be good system, not far behind a conroe + 8800 system at all, 775 motherboards can be horribly expensive as well
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No longer the case..A 650i is around 70 put this with a E4300 or 6300 and you have a vastly superior pc for around 170 that would destroy everything in the AMD range by a huge ammount.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Thing is if hes moving from 939 to AM2 it means new mobo, cpu and RAM. May as well get conroe really as even a cheap E4300 can be clocked so its much faster than an FX62

Also, dont your GTX's need 2x 16x PCI-E lanes to work properly in SLI? I thought the asus A8n-SLI was only 2x 8x in SLI mode :confused:
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The 650i has only 2 x 8 PCI-E lanes and works fine with 8800 series GPU in sli with no performance hit.
 
yep a review somewhere stated that a 2.93 core2duo extreme was the least you need to get the best out of ONE 8800 never mind 2

you need as much processor power as you can get for 2 8800's

so theres only one route and thats core 2 and overclock it to the hilt!
 
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