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[Daston]

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

 

[Daston]

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]

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.

ahh I see so quad core wont be on the same socket?

 

[Daston]

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

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