Classified95
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Hey everyone, well it's Christmas, and I got $110, $60 from my grandpa, and $50 from my parents. Anyways, I'm going to borrow the rest for this rig, and pay it back later. I have a 17" LCD, Cheap Speaker, a Keyboard, and Mouse, but really, the current PC I'm on sucks, so I'm in need of a upgrade, but a cheap one.
Anyways, I was looking at a budget of less than $300 (204 Pounds for all of you in the UK
). Anyways, I was going to reserve $50 for a custom Computer Case from a friend, and the rest for the parts, so $230. Anyways, now I need help deciding my CPU motherboard Combo. I just want to know, which setup will be better for my needs.
I have the Memory, Video Card, and Hard Drives picked out. Going to run one 80 GB for just the OS, and the other for Program Files and Documents, I want fast boot times, and clean un-fragmented drives. I'm probably going to have to cut down to only 1 HDD for budget reasons.
Memory - WINTEC AMPX (2 x 1 GB)
Video Card - ASUS 3650 Fanless
Hard Drives - 2 x WD 80 GB SATA's
Optical Drive - LG DVD Burner w/ LightScribe
Now... I was thinking the Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Stock, or the Intel E2200 overclocked to about 2.7'ish. But for just heavy web browsing, music, maybe a movie once in a while, and light gaming (only source games), I'm not sure what's best. I hear AMD is better for multi tasking, so that might be better for me needs but I'm not 100% sure. And for the Intel, overclocking might not go stable on the low end boards, less than $50 so I'm not sure, here's what I was looking at.
AMD Athlon X2 5400+: Link
Foxconn A74MX-K 740G
GIGABYTE GA-M61PME-S2 GeForce 6100/nForce 430
Intel E2200: Link
ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS Intel G31
So, I'm wondering, which setup, with which of the motherboards would be the best in terms of stability, for the Intel's, it has to give a good stable overclock, and not have the NB roasting, and I want to know, which will give better performance for multi-tasking, not nesscerily for gaming.
THANKS EVERYONE!
I hope to get my gaming rig ordered within the next week, I just need some good feedback, once again, Thanks Everyone!
Anyways, I was looking at a budget of less than $300 (204 Pounds for all of you in the UK
). Anyways, I was going to reserve $50 for a custom Computer Case from a friend, and the rest for the parts, so $230. Anyways, now I need help deciding my CPU motherboard Combo. I just want to know, which setup will be better for my needs.I have the Memory, Video Card, and Hard Drives picked out. Going to run one 80 GB for just the OS, and the other for Program Files and Documents, I want fast boot times, and clean un-fragmented drives. I'm probably going to have to cut down to only 1 HDD for budget reasons.
Memory - WINTEC AMPX (2 x 1 GB)
Video Card - ASUS 3650 Fanless
Hard Drives - 2 x WD 80 GB SATA's
Optical Drive - LG DVD Burner w/ LightScribe
Now... I was thinking the Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Stock, or the Intel E2200 overclocked to about 2.7'ish. But for just heavy web browsing, music, maybe a movie once in a while, and light gaming (only source games), I'm not sure what's best. I hear AMD is better for multi tasking, so that might be better for me needs but I'm not 100% sure. And for the Intel, overclocking might not go stable on the low end boards, less than $50 so I'm not sure, here's what I was looking at.
AMD Athlon X2 5400+: Link
Foxconn A74MX-K 740G
GIGABYTE GA-M61PME-S2 GeForce 6100/nForce 430
Intel E2200: Link
ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS Intel G31
So, I'm wondering, which setup, with which of the motherboards would be the best in terms of stability, for the Intel's, it has to give a good stable overclock, and not have the NB roasting, and I want to know, which will give better performance for multi-tasking, not nesscerily for gaming.
THANKS EVERYONE!
I hope to get my gaming rig ordered within the next week, I just need some good feedback, once again, Thanks Everyone!
