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advice on amd64/mobo purchase
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 |
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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. |
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Go to newegg.com
CHAINTECH "VNF3-250" nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU - RETAIL Item# N82E16813152043 $88.00 AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache 64-bit Processor - Retail Item# N82E16819103424 $223.00 Total $311.00 "shodedo" wrote in message news:wT1Ic.4091$li.282@lakeread06... 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 |
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shodedo's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
we 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 well, Speed is about the only reason why one would go with a faster CPU. Personally, I'd get the faster CPU now, and get more ram later. Thats what I am doing. |
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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 Linux support for nForce platform is much better than it used to be, but I think it's advisable to add: apic=off noacpi (or should that be noapic acpi=off?). 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 Depends how much RAM you have, how much you're gonna need (based on what you do with the machine) and how much the components are gonna cost you, I suppose. I would recommend a 1GB of RAM for Windows gaming machines, and any development machine. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:48:37 -0400, 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 not sure what the speeds are for the 3000 and the 3200, but sometimes AMD calls the same speed cpu a higher level due to a larger cache size. I think I'd pass on the 3200 if it's only a 3000 with a larger cache. They say you can overclock the nforce3 250 boards really high, so pick up the fastest memory you can get, eg PC4000 or higher. I think MSI has a nice nforce3 250Gb motherboard out. |
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