On Monday 13 March 2006 04:23, JimD wrote: > AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 800MHz HT Socket 754 > or > Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533MHz FSB 2 x 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual > Core,EM64T Processor
I'm very surprised Intel can knock out dual core processors for under $150! I would go for the AMD though, but the socket 939 version. With a good board you should have no problems getting a much faster dual core CPU in X months time and just slotting it in. > The next item is a mobo to go with the proc. For the mobo I really want > SATA, PCI express, onboard audio and lan. I don't want onboard video, I > will get a newer Nvida card to handle video. All the onboard stuff must > work under Gentoo, I won't have MS on the new box. I've just got an Asus A8N (SLI version), and an X2 3800, very nice fully working combination. The board supports all currently available socket 939 CPUs too. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
