PC advice (Round 2)

[Masherbrum]

After talking with Skuzzy yesterday he told me in so many words "Your PC is bottlenecked at the CPU".

Now, I'm looking at this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037.   I realize that this is Out of Stock until tomorrow, but if I come home from work and this is available, I'm seriously looking at this one.

or if the other one is OOS:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115028

for a MB:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

and 2 G's of DDR2 memory


I'll run with the VC I have until I nail this down.   I just think this is a better route to go down, than upgrading this last.   I currently have an out of date AMD 3500+ Athlon (Socket 939).

[BaldEagl]

If the E8400 Wolfdale is out of stock take a look at the E6750 Conroe (2.66 Gb).  Great bang for the buck and from what I've read it's easily over-clockable to over 3 Gb on stock cooling.  I just got one and it's great (but I haven't OC'd it... no need to).

Also check the performance specs at Tomshardware.  IIRC the 6750 is almost as fast as the 3 gb Conroe that you're looking at for almost $100 less.

[Halo46]

I was asking the same thing. I found the E8400 at Fry's for $225 here in town. An alternative suggested to me as well was this Xeon 3110 NT version - http://www.excaliberpc.com/Intel_BX80570E3110_Xeon_E3110_3.00GHz/BX80570E3110/partinfo-id-584805.html. It has all the same specs.

[Getback]

My humble advice is get the E8400. I've looked at that MB too. I'm not sure yet. However I was thinking of buying it and using it for another computer I'm thinking about building. The price is soooo right.

I use the E8400 on a Abit IP35 pro. It seems to be a very good combination.

I have to tell you all one more time. My computer runs soooo sweet. I even use the onboard sound.