My current setup really sucks so I am trying to decide beetween two new systems, here they are: PC1: Processor: CPU S775 Intel Pentium D 930 DualCore 3.0GHz, Socket 775 FSB 800MHz 2x2MB L2 Cache EMT64 Viiv Video Card: VGA PCI-E Sapphire ATI RX1800XT VIVO 256MB DDR3 , ATI Radeon X1800XT TV out 128-bit PCI Express Memory: DIMM 1GB DRAM DDR2 667MHz TwinMOS x2 - 8.358 din. x 2 Motherboard: MB S775 i945P ASUS P5LD2, PCI Express DDR2 SATA2 SB 7.1 Socket 775 PC2: Processor: CPU S939 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+, Socket 939 512KB x2 L2 Cache 64-bit Procesor Video Card: VGA PCI-E Sapphire ATI RX1800XT VIVO 256MB DDR3, ATI Radeon X1800XT TV out 128-bit PCI Express Memory: DIMM 1GB DRAM DDR 400MHz Kingmax Memorija x 2 Motherboard: A8R32-MVP Deluxe So what do you think, any help is appriciated?? If you think I should use another mobo or something, please post...
Right now, AMD. However, if you'll be primarily using this system for gaming, having the 3800+ X2 isn't going to help as much as a faster single core CPU. Outside of that, it's fine.
yea the AMD is probably the better choice. Instead of Socket 939 though you might wanna get a Socket AM2 as its newer and uses DDR2, faster memory than normal DDR that socket 939 uses. The only bad part about AM2 is that its still in its early stages and still has a few bugs.
Its AMD all the way for me too!! AM2 is looking realy nice with its new ddr2 architecture and if its for gaming then AMD is for you. And like Big B said dual core isnt being utilzed fully by most games so you would be well advised to get a better GPU with the money that you save from not getting the dual core
i'm not sure if you guys know but Intel came out with a new architecture and its going to mostly likely beat out AMD, also they are in the processes of making a quad core processor. Yes its not cool but it happens, anyways thought that should be kept in mind, also dual core isn't a factor at the moment but i would say in hte near future it will mostly definetly be a big part of games as well, doom 3 already has taken advantage of the dual core technology gigabyte_motherboards
