nforce vs I945 : games & upgrades

[rellutzu]

Hello everyone!
Joined the boat a bit earlier, but I' ve been already spending some time zapping through topics on this site.

The reason is this : I would like to upgrade my current Pc to keep up with nowadays neverending hungrier games and because it's quite old(Amd Palomino) I must change almost all components but the Hdd, optic and case.

I am a fan of things going smoothly and that's why I'm interested most in compatibility. For my money (and what I found so far) I can afford one of this 2 systems :

Ist built around nforce chipset
Abit AN8/Asus A8NE or equivalent nforce4 chipset vendor
Athlon 64 3000+ (sok 939/am2) + adequate cooling
Gforce 6800GT 256Mb/256bits 12PixelPipe's Pcie
1GB DDR1 400 Kit


IInd
I945 whatever vendor(955, 975 quite expensive)
PentiumD 805 (burning to try that overclocking trick) + serious cooling
Ati Radeon X1600 256Mb/128bits 12PixelPipe's Pcie
1GB DDR2 667 kit

Personally I would prefer Amd platform because sock 939/am2 will eventually allow me to upgrade my proc to their latest dual core
While who knows what other modifications Intel will perform upon their to be released dual cores that will lead me to change Mobo(hate changing mobos)!

I really don't care of the DDR1 <-> DDR2 diffrence so I'll drop it right here!

I would give some thoughts on heat/noise/powerconsumption ...so...!

So, as far as gaming and future upgrades, which one do U think worth the money?

 

[prozac26]

Well, 945 doesn't support Conroe, so the AMD looks like a better upgrade, only if you get AM2. 939 won't give a good upgrade path, so AM2 is the better choice.

6800GT has 16 pipelines. I would go for the 7600GT instead, it should cost less than 6800GT, and it's better. 7600GT is better for you.