athlon 64 X2?

I saw this processor on newegg and it seemed pretty good
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103773

Since im sort of a newbie.. my concern is.... i wont be using 64bit windows at all. Does it run on 64bit better? or will that processor run just as good on 32bit

I saw this combo deal over at newegg for a case with 500 watt power supply and a
Brisbane Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition for $129.99.It's not as fast as the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at stock speeds but it does have an unlocked multiplier and can be easily overclocked.You might be interested in this deal.Here it is.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 478x88.jpg

Useful comment since it has half the cache and saves a whole 5 USD (wow) vs the Athlon 6000+ on NewEgg... OP has said he is a newbie (= no overclocking).

Bob

Thanks for the reply.

I was originally thinking of ordering a amd mobo from newegg ( i can check ratings and reviews, makes it easier for me) but my friend linked me to pricewatch.com and they have MOBO combos

Their combo comes out relatively cheap but im guessing their mobo must be really bad, or is it?

http://www.pricewatch.com/motherbo [...] pu_fan.htm

Anyone know if the "free" mobos they supply in those offers are any good?

The 2Mb cache Windsor will beat a 1Mb cache Brisbane at the same clocks (just look up the benchies). The guy has said he is a newbie so will probably not want to overclock at all. Your comment is therefore not very helpful and downright rude in fact (heh heh I love a good flame war ).

I would therefore still go with the older core (enabling Cool & Quite of course to mitigate the extra TDP). Since we have not been told what OP wants to do with the system you can't assume his apps. are not cache dependent (e.g. gaming).

Bob

Will my psu be able to handle that 125w Chip? My psu is only 350w

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817104953

Some Windsors are 65 watt. The 3 I'm replacing with Phenoms in our PC's were all 65 watt models; 3800+, 4200+ and 3600+.

I'm just not sure whether to switch out my wife's ASUS 690G board with 9600 support and get her the same 780G board I have (or the ASUS 780G board my son has) with an 8750 or just go with a 9600 for now.

PC Chips is owned by ECS, I believe, and ECS mobos are all bundled with cheap X2 processors at Fry's. So I don't trust either brand.

I agree that ASUS and Gigabyte have good boards. I found my Gigabyte 780G to be a bit better than the equivalent ASUS model in my son's PC.

Mine in my sig. Here are the others:

My wife's:

Athlon X2 3800+
Antec Neo 550
Asus 690G board (can support a 9600 upgrade)
4 gigs Kingston DDR2 800
Asus 3650 DDR2
Sony DVD-R+/RW
17" Viewsonic A70f+ CRT

internal drives:
200 gig Seagate SATA
500 gig Seagate SATA
400 gig WD SATA

external drives:
400 gig Maxtor IDE in an external case
250 gig WD external
two 500 gig Lacie externals

Blame anime and modding for Morrowind etc. for all that hard drive space.

My son's:

Athlon X2 4200+
Antec True Power 550
ASUS 780G
250 gig Seagate SATA
ASUS 3650
17" Viewsonic A71f+

I'm using a Dell 17" given to me by a friend for the time being. I also have a 500 gig Lacie external.

Tired of switching out CPU's and motherboards. My wife needs something more powerful, just can't decide 9600 on the current board or get a Deneb or Nehalem later. I can wait for a CPU and motherboard as I want a 24" LCD and a Blu-ray drive (doesn't have to be burning can be combo)

I will get my wife a 4850 or 4870 and a 24" LCD, and my 8 year old son will get a 19" LCD and a 4650. What do you recommend for my wife's CPU upgrade (should last for two years or so):

9600 with the TLB bios fix enabled?

8650 with a Gigabyte or ASUS 780G board?

Wait for Nehalem or Deneb? (Might take money away from other upgrades).

I just can't decide. If I were single with only one PC, I could have a high end rig, but I'd rather have my wife and snarky ADHD kid around (and he is a smartaleck; he'll probably get banned from message boards in ten years or so ) He got mad that I upgraded my PC the other weekend and didn't upgrade his! I told him that back in 1979 I had to walk to the computation center uphill in the snow to play Advent, and that when I was his age we only had a black and white TV and the closest thing to a computer I'd seen was on episodes of The Time Tunnel ).

It's still cheaper building 3 budget PC's than it was building one PC around 1994 when I was single. I have an old 1995 issue of Computer Gaming World with a preview of Daggerfall (reason I kept it) and it had some expensive PC ads, buying from Computer Shopper wasn't much cheaper either.

Yeah like AMD's 90 to 65nm shrink was a winner eh?

The fastest X2's are still the 2 X 1Mb 90nm cores ...

They OC just as much as the Brisbane does ... plus deliver better performance because they have superior cache latency.

If that is anything to go on in terms of a recommendation then Deneb is likely to be a fizzer in terms of perfomance ... other than a slightly lower TDP.

Just like Brisbane.