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upgrading my rig, need advice
jimmyman99
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Greetings.
Im thinking of upping my current rig from
AMD 64 3000+
ASUS a8n32-sli delux
2 gigs pc3200 RAM
BFG 7950GX2
into something like this:
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Socket 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz (1066MHz) 4MB L2 Cache Socket 775 Processor
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC OR ASUS EN8800GTS/640M
OCZ2P800R22GK (After $25 MIR) DDR2 PC2-6400 2GB (2x1024MB) Platinum Revision 2 XTC Dual Channel Kit
I was originaly planning to upgrade into AM2 socket with X2600, But I read a review in a magazine stating that AMD (X2 6000) is just slightly cheaper (about 100$) then E6700 while E6700 is moderately faster.
My questions are:
1) is it realy worth switching to intel with E6700 instead of going AM2 with X2 6000?
2) is it worth going with watercooling? How much quieter is it then regular cooling?
3) does anyone know a shop where I can buy a brand new rig by picking my parts on my own instead of going with their standard choice (I live in Toronto and currently shop in Filtech exclusively, but they dont offer rigs like that as far as I know).
Thnx for any technical advice.
Im thinking of upping my current rig from
AMD 64 3000+
ASUS a8n32-sli delux
2 gigs pc3200 RAM
BFG 7950GX2
into something like this:
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Socket 775
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz (1066MHz) 4MB L2 Cache Socket 775 Processor
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC OR ASUS EN8800GTS/640M
OCZ2P800R22GK (After $25 MIR) DDR2 PC2-6400 2GB (2x1024MB) Platinum Revision 2 XTC Dual Channel Kit
I was originaly planning to upgrade into AM2 socket with X2600, But I read a review in a magazine stating that AMD (X2 6000) is just slightly cheaper (about 100$) then E6700 while E6700 is moderately faster.
My questions are:
1) is it realy worth switching to intel with E6700 instead of going AM2 with X2 6000?
2) is it worth going with watercooling? How much quieter is it then regular cooling?
3) does anyone know a shop where I can buy a brand new rig by picking my parts on my own instead of going with their standard choice (I live in Toronto and currently shop in Filtech exclusively, but they dont offer rigs like that as far as I know).
Thnx for any technical advice.
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For instance, you'll have twenty choices for GPU, and they'll tell you the chipset and amount of vram, but you can't see how many pixel pipes a card has or what its clocks speeds are. Also, you can't see the latency timings on RAM, and you probably know how important that is for gamers using AMD processors.
Aside from these two things, it's a very solid site.