I want to build a new computer system for video editing and maybe some occasional gaming. I was originally planning on buying an Athlon 64 3700+ 939 chip b/c it has the 1mb cache and it has the better memory control to treat 2 individual (identical) sticks of RAM as one big chip. But after the THG article about overclocking that Intel D 805 or the discussion on overclocking an Opteron I'm not really sure which chip and motherboard to go with. I like the idea of overclocking the 805, but the $100 I would save on the chip does not make up for the much more expensive motherboard and cooling solution I would need to hit the about 3.7ghz I would probably overclock it to.
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I'm not really a gamer and I don't want to break the bank for this project, but I haven't built a new system for myself in 5 years so I'm not building a budget system either. What's your advice on a processor, mobo, ram, and video card? This will probably have to last me another 4-5 years.
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I'm not really a gamer and I don't want to break the bank for this project, but I haven't built a new system for myself in 5 years so I'm not building a budget system either. What's your advice on a processor, mobo, ram, and video card? This will probably have to last me another 4-5 years.