Which CPU?

[plant-fanatic]

Hi Guys,

Just got admitted to the forum and looking for a little help here...

Rig:

P5N32 SLi Premium MoBo
Asus EN8800GT 512MB GPU
GeiL DDR2 667 Mhz 2GB RAM
Pentium D830 CPU

I'm ready to buy an E6600 or E6700,. Opinions?

Thanx P-F

 

[plant-fanatic]

Love to, but Asus CPU support website sez not supported with this MoBo??

P-F

 

[plant-fanatic]

Many thanks.

If you had a choice then, would you go for E6420 or E6600?

 

[plant-fanatic]

My MoBo has the nVidia nForce 590 SLi chipset. I took a look at the Nvidia website and found a lot more CPU's suitable for the chipset, including the QX and Q series CPu's.

Being a 'newbie', would any of these series CPU's be OK? Does the CPU have to be compatible with the MoBo, Chipset or both?

Thanks again guys

P-F

 

[plant-fanatic]

A very good, informative post. I'v gone and bought meself an E6600.......now the fun begins..

Thanks

P-F