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Old July 11th 04, 03:57 AM
Barry Walsh
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shodedo wrote:
Hello all, I am looking to spend around $400 on a cpu/motherboard
bundle. I will be running gentoo linux with an nvidia card so I am
assuming a motherboard with an nforce3 250 chipset is preferrable... Are
there any good reasons for spending the extra $50 or so for the 3200+
over the 3000+ (besides just speed)? I would prefer the 3200+ but I
think the extra money I'd save from buying the 3000+ I could use to buy
more ram. any constructive comments are appreciated, thanks


I'm currently running Gentoo 64bit on an Nforce 3 150 chipset and a 3200
with a meg of cache. I've seen it repeatedly claimed that the meg of
cache should considerably improve compile times, but I've seen no real
results anywhere to prove that. If you do go for the 3200 make sure it's
the 2GHz version with a meg of cache rather than the 2.2GHz and 512Kb.