Best MOBO & CPU combination for 400$
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Fragrant Coit
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You don't give your location, but price these up...
Q6600
Gigabyte p35-s3l
{we've had a lot of issues with Asus boards at work lately, and the Gigabytes are proving fine}
Q6600
Gigabyte p35-s3l
{we've had a lot of issues with Asus boards at work lately, and the Gigabytes are proving fine}
pdyckman@comcas
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I agree with the Q6600 but advise you to go with the ASUS P5n-E SLI. When (if) you study the numbers...you may buy the Intel chipset but I am an Nvidia Die hard. Devil's advocate. Plus I think as we iron out wrinkles with the ASUS, it will be (and is the best) for $120. Later.
Fragrant Coit
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It has been the entry level boards that are dying at an alarming rate - especially the p5vd2-vm. The mid range ones are probably OK.
NVidia Chipsets are v.good. I don't use anything else for AMD builds, and I'm sure the quality is the same for Intel compat chipsets.
I mostly reccomended that Gigabyte one as I've had personal experience with it - use one in my Media Centre PC. It even has Optical Out!
NVidia Chipsets are v.good. I don't use anything else for AMD builds, and I'm sure the quality is the same for Intel compat chipsets.
I mostly reccomended that Gigabyte one as I've had personal experience with it - use one in my Media Centre PC. It even has Optical Out!
Rage_3K_Moiz
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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail - $129.99
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail - $279.99
A little above budget, but the best choices by far. For good-quality, inexpensive RAM, check the Hot Deals section of the forums.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail - $279.99
A little above budget, but the best choices by far. For good-quality, inexpensive RAM, check the Hot Deals section of the forums.
Rage_3K_Moiz
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Games are starting to take advantage of multiple cores and future games are definitely going to do so. So go quad-core and you'll benefit from it more than going dual-core.
aspirulito
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I would personally go for an athlon x2 6000+ (arround 200 newegg.com)and a compatible gigabyte board for about $150... but that is just me....
Rage_3K_Moiz
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There's no comparison between the Q6600 and the X2 6000+ because one's quad-core and the other's dual-core. Phenom however, is a completely different story...
Rage_3K_Moiz
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Intel rules the roost right now as far as dual-core is concerned. Phenom is releasing in a couple of months and performance is rumoured to be better than the Core 2 Duo. But the Penryn will also be releasing around the same time and will be the main competitor to the Phenom. If you get the GigaByte board above, you'd be able to upgrade to DDR3 and Penryn processors but for using Phenom with DDR3, you'd need an AM2+ motherboard, which are not yet available.
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