New Build...Still ?'s...3200+ or Opteron?!?!? thx

[Xiggy]

ne one else???

 

[PerfectSK]

It may. If you're looking to build a gaming rig, why not go for the FX line?

 

[MSFanBoy]

He's getting a 7600GT...what's bad about that? That's an amazing card.

 

[The Amish Kid]

It may. If you're looking to build a gaming rig, why not go for the FX line?

Have you noticed he's on a budget? The processor alone would put him over.

Everything looks good. No you willn't be bottlenecking with that processor. Overclocked the opteron is the speed of a FX-55 or 57.

About the soundcard yes it can give you a few more FPS's. When you are using onboard audio your processor has to process the sound too. When you use an independent sound card you are relieving your processor of that stress.

 

[Gamingfreak]

I have a 3000+...wish I had gotten an opteron..

Soundcard? A soundcard isn't going to give you more frames per second...a sound card deals with sound and sound only.

RAM? crucial ballistix is great ram, and 1gb is pretty good, 2gb will be great.

actually they do help get more fps because it takes some load off the motherboard, as for ram OCZ is pretty damn good just try to get the lowest timings possible, and have u thought about getting a dual core cpu? it would be far better than a single core opteron...and since u'll be overclocking u'll need some better cooling than the stock cooling that comes with the cpu, get this for the cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835106061, and this for the graphics card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118001 one other thing, i recommend u get an OCZ powerstream as they are a very stable psu and it will help when it comes to overclocking

 

[Osak]

I would get a opteron just for the fact that they overclock alot better then 3200 (Even better thena venice)

 

[ChampMark]

Just to let you know the Opteron 246 sledgehammer, doesn't over clock. Well it doesn't on my s2895 motherboard, and from what I've read it doesn't either.

Make sure if you got the money to get a 90nm core if ya can.

 

[Xiggy]

List:

Opteron 146 2.0ghz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103598

eVGA Nforce4 Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813188002

eVGA 7600gt 256mb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130283

OCZ Gold Series 1gb DDR500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820227068

Creative Soundblaster Audigy
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16829102003

Hitachi Deskstar 80gb SATA3gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822145082

Antec TruepowerII 550watts SLi Support
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817103931

Antec Solution Slk3000 Black
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811129152

Total: $800

i think that is it...later i will have 2gb dual channel ddr500...and maybe another 7600gt...thx guys

 

[Xiggy]

ne one else???

 

[The Amish Kid]

Looks good. What was your initial budget when you first started planing? lol