Buying a new Mobo+Cpu, Last choice.

[AboveAll]

So according to buy Budget I can choose AMD XP 2700+ or an AMD 64 2800+.

If im taking the amd 64 athlon I will buy this board ..

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-219&depa=0 .

If i will go with the 2700+ XP cpu I will probably go with this..

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-185&depa=0 .

Basicly it looks like if I go with the Athlon 64 I wont have money for a board that is dual channel And if I got with the 2700+ I can get the Nforce 2 board that supports dual channel.

What should I go for?

Thanks guys. And please no comments like Wait a while and buy this or buy super computers for 1000$.

Thanks

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Go for A64 2800+. It's faster.

Dual channel gives very little performance boost for Athlon XP.

Athlon64 performance increase from Dual channel is ignorable.


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[o1die]

Athlon 64 3000 and chaintech nforce3 board will set you back about $250. The 3000 is getting some good overclocks with the stock amd heatsink.

 

[Mr5oh]

I have always gotten decent performance gains from dual channel on Athlon XP setups. Generally my RAM scores go up from 500-1500 points going from single channel to dual channel (500 points being if nothing changes, just swapping from dual channel to single channel, 1500 points generally if a board swap is necessary to enable dual channel).

Whats the price on the 2700+ chip you are looking at? If you can afford either a step up, or down, you could get one of the chips with a the larger L2 cache.

Since it seems you are trying to purchase this stuff on a budget, I would lean towards the XP system. There is a pretty big price jump to go with a 64-bit system (and the performance gain is not equal to the price jump), and with the extra money (Going with an XP system) you could get you bigger gains elsewhere.

What are you using the computer for? Is this for playing games?

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[AboveAll]

Well I made my choice and gone insane and boght an AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ lol. cost 170$.
I will probably buy this board >>

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-219&depa=0 .

Do you guys see any bad thing about it ?

Thanks again. And the computer is for gaming mostly yes.
I already have a 512mb ddr by kingston and a Radeon 9800 PRO.
I mainly needed help with cpu and board decisions because those are the most crucial parts .

Thanks.

 

[endyen]

Epox has been working overtime on board quality. Going nforce3 250 is just the best. Looks like a great setup (though I haven't tried one of these boards yet). FYI, this setup will perform at least 15% better than an xp-2700+ system.