New CPU, MOBO and RAM

[lordgoof]

Hey, am thinking of upgrading to C2 and am wanting peoples opinions on the cpu mobo and the ram that i had in mind.

am thinking of getting:

E6400 AUD$297

P5N32-E sli plus AUD$305

Corsair Performance 2 x 1GB 800mhz AUD$231

or should i wait for the E4650?

any ideas welcome......

 

[ai_01]

if u waited this far for c2d id wait a lil more barcelona and penryn is right around the corner.

 

[lordgoof]

it seems that the barcelona is designed for servers and the like, and that it won't give a huge performance increase over the C2D for standard applications as well as gaming.

With Penryn, it looks like the only difference is that it will be a 45nm chip rather than 65nm. which means that it will be more energy efficient, and thats about it.

Since there will most likely be price drops for the C2, i think that it would still be the best option for gaming.

 

[Toxcity]

I have just brought that CPU and the Motherboard.

Its in the post to me now.

I believe they will be good!

 

[a1651]

Massive price cuts for both AMD and Intel are coming in April. Also, Agena is the desktop version of Barcelona, a native Quad core part (4x512kb L2 and 2mb L3 / 463 million transistors / 65nm) with numerous enhancements (SSE128, new branch predictor, sideband stack optimizer, improved out of order load execution, improved TLBs, improved prefetchers and a faster memory controller. Penryn (410 million transistors / 45nm) has 6mb shared L2 cache and 23% more core-logic, control and L1 transistors over Conroe.

 

[lordgoof]

thanks for those links, realy helpful... means that i now will put off the upgade for another couple of months. for the 5th or 6th time.