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I bought a Sempron but I heard there not that great. Thinking about picking up something like a AMD Athlon XP Processor 3000

Their not meant to be good, but I built a 2.6ghz machine using a Sempron and it's actually pretty fast. not much difference between that and my 2.7ghz XP (overclocked from 2.1, though)

I defianetly need a new video card though.
Right now I have a Nvidia Geforce FX 5600.

This CPU is a 2.0 GHZ. But it was cheap and I needed something temporarily.
I also have 512 dual channel ram.
And I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe MOBO.

I guess my first priority is to update my video card. What can you peeps recommend that won't break my piggy bank.

6600GT

or a geforce 6800LE(open all the pipes and OC it and you got a great card)

Just out of interest, why are you PC peeps forever messing about with processors and yet so stingy with RAM? (apart from the fact that your operating system still thinks 640k is all there is and falls over if it can't find a floppy disk drive)

I'm making a dual boot. One OS for programs and shit and one will be simply for gaming. I'm going to try LitePC and strip it down as much as possible.

Not me. RAM makes all the difference. I just put a new box together with my tax refund:

2.8GHz P4 Prescott (1MB L2 cache) socket T (clocked at 3.0GHz)
Asus P5AD2-E Premium mobo @800 MHz FSB
1GB Geil PC2-4300 RAM (Dual Channel)
Chaintech GeForce FX 6600GT 128MB DDR3 (PCI-E)

It's a screamer

BTW - don't believe for a second that the Prescott's stock HSF will cool worth a damn. Just out of curiosity I decided to put in on my beast to see what it could do - the system started at 65 degrees C!!!

I put my Thermaltake Silent 775 on the sucker with some Arctic Silver 5 and it never runs over 45 even at full load.

Geebs wrote:Just out of interest, why are you PC peeps forever messing about with processors and yet so stingy with RAM? (apart from the fact that your operating system still thinks 640k is all there is and falls over if it can't find a floppy disk drive)

Not all of us follow that line of thought...or install floppy drives for that matter.

Speaking of floppies, I have to find a way of putting all my bootup floppies onto one cd-rom.

Tormentius wrote:

Geebs wrote:Just out of interest, why are you PC peeps forever messing about with processors and yet so stingy with RAM? (apart from the fact that your operating system still thinks 640k is all there is and falls over if it can't find a floppy disk drive)

Not all of us follow that line of thought...or install floppy drives for that matter.

Yeah I know, it was a troll, but it was a constructive troll.

Geebs wrote:Yeah I know, it was a troll, but it was a constructive troll.

My troll detector is in for repairs right now.

intel 486 dx4

they are wicked fast.

my a64 4000+ overclocked to insame sppeds gives me 950 fps in q3 timedemo...impressed?

I have an AMD 3500+

AmIdYfReAk wrote:intel 486 dx4

they are wicked fast.

Got one. Blazing.

Shmee wrote:BTW - don't believe for a second that the Prescott's stock HSF will cool worth a damn. Just out of curiosity I decided to put in on my beast to see what it could do - the system started at 65 degrees C!!!

I put my Thermaltake Silent 775 on the sucker with some Arctic Silver 5 and it never runs over 45 even at full load.

I've got a 3.2 Prescott with the stock HSF.

My machine runs at 40 idle and 60 during gaming, etc. My CPU temp is back to 40 in less than five minutes.

Seems to work fine to me.

[edit] Although that Thermaltake Silent 775 looks like a good idea. The stock HSF sometimes screams at 4500 rpm.

AmIdYfReAk wrote:intel 486 dx4

they are wicked fast.

...my dx2/66 would slaughter you...

Prescotts really start running into heating issues on stock HSF at the 3.6+ Ghz mark (so basically just the 3.6 and the 3.8).

AMD 64 2800 and if you get a good one, OC to 2.4 or even 2.6ghz

GONNAFISTYA wrote:

Shmee wrote:BTW - don't believe for a second that the Prescott's stock HSF will cool worth a damn. Just out of curiosity I decided to put in on my beast to see what it could do - the system started at 65 degrees C!!!

I put my Thermaltake Silent 775 on the sucker with some Arctic Silver 5 and it never runs over 45 even at full load.

I've got a 3.2 Prescott with the stock HSF.

My machine runs at 40 idle and 60 during gaming, etc. My CPU temp is back to 40 in less than five minutes.

Seems to work fine to me.

[edit] Although that Thermaltake Silent 775 looks like a good idea. The stock HSF sometimes screams at 4500 rpm.

lol, look at that freakin' nerd watching his CPU temp :icon19:

lol

Fist meets colon in April.