MadSlaveGarden
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Hey, I haven't been on here in a while anyways I have a few questions about my upgrade that I'm about to purchase.
My current rig is:
Amd 3800+ skt 939
Asus a8n5x
ATI PowerColor 512mb HD3650 Pci express 2.0 x16
1gb Crossair DDR
Rosewill 500w
250gb hardrive sata 3.0gb
I want to upgrade my current rig, but I have a budget of $270 (unless there's rebates that lower the price afterwords) and I really want a quad core system.
Here's what I picked out for an AMD rig
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186147
Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103291
or the Intel rig
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186140
Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
Whats a better choice? The Amd phenom has a faster clock and supports HT. The only thing I see intel Q6600 has on it is the L2 cache is larger, but the in CPU bench marks I always see the Q6600 beat the phenom. Does all this really matter? Also if I go intel I can't find a motherboard that has pci 2.0 x16 that will stay under my budget, does 2.0 really make a difference?
Thanks
My current rig is:
Amd 3800+ skt 939
Asus a8n5x
ATI PowerColor 512mb HD3650 Pci express 2.0 x16
1gb Crossair DDR
Rosewill 500w
250gb hardrive sata 3.0gb
I want to upgrade my current rig, but I have a budget of $270 (unless there's rebates that lower the price afterwords) and I really want a quad core system.
Here's what I picked out for an AMD rig
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186147
Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103291
or the Intel rig
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186140
Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
Whats a better choice? The Amd phenom has a faster clock and supports HT. The only thing I see intel Q6600 has on it is the L2 cache is larger, but the in CPU bench marks I always see the Q6600 beat the phenom. Does all this really matter? Also if I go intel I can't find a motherboard that has pci 2.0 x16 that will stay under my budget, does 2.0 really make a difference?
Thanks