Thank you for your suggestions. I am little confused though, at the motherboard suggestion. Do you mean that I need to get that one and then find the older bios and change to it? I put info from both Intel and AMD, hoping that more people here will help me out with this decision SOON so I can choose a really nice motherboard, CPU, and maybe RAM although I probably will just go to the Corsair website an dlook there. Although I have boguht Mushkin and like it also. Help, please? Ken ---- I did an internet search for thr E4300 and found a link to newegg so I decided to just go ahead and list some prices from there. Intel Core 2 Duo Socket LGA 775 Processor - Retail L1 Cache 32KB+32KB Manufacturing Tech 65 NM E4300 = $189 Allendale 1.8GHz FSB 800MHz NO Virtualization Technology Support 2M shared L2 Cache E6300 = $188 Conroe 1.86GHz FSB 1066MHz Virtualization Technology Support 2M shared L2 Cache E6400 = $222 Conroe 2.13GHz FSB 1066MHz Virtualization Technology Support 2M shared L2 Cache E6600 = $316 Conroe 2.4GHz FSB 1066MHz Virtualization Technology Support 4M shared L2 Cache E6700 = $509 Conroe 2.66GHz FSB 1066MHz Virtualization Technology Support 4M shared L2 Cache listing those 5 cpu's http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList asp?Submit=Property&Subcategory=343&Description=&Type=&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=& axPrice=&PropertyCodeValue=3896%3A27502&PropertyCodeValue=507%3A22265 Or for the compare link http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCompare asp?bop=AND&Submit=PROPERTY&SubCategory=343&PropertyCodeValue=3896%3A27502%2C 07%3A22265&CompareItemList=N82E16819115005%2CN82E16819115013%2CN82E1681911500 %2CN82E16819115003%2CN82E16819115002 Decided to add some AMD info since that's what I kinda prefer, even though I am not sur eif it's as good as the current intel's. I read that AMD was out first, and then later intel brought out something better. Is this true?? anyone? AMD Athlon 64 X2 Windsor Socket AM2 w/Virtualization Technology L1 Cache 128KB+128KB Manufacturing Tech 90 NM Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0GHz = $135 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz = $169 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz = $208 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz = $276 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz = $279 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Listing all 9 CPU's which includes the 65watt ones also http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList asp?Submit=Property&Subcategory=343&Description=&Type=&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=& axPrice=&OEMMark=0&PropertyCodeValue=517%3A20996&PropertyCodeValue=509%3A2101
Compare link for the above 5 CPU's http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCompare asp?bop=AND&Submit=PROPERTY&SubCategory=343&PropertyCodeValue=3896%3A27502%2C 07%3A17007&OEMMark=0&CompareItemList=N82E16819103735%2CN82E16819103747%2CN82E 6819103751%2CN82E16819103759%2CN82E16819103030 Compare link with the 65watt cpu's also http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCompare asp?bop=AND&Submit=PROPERTY&SubCategory=343&PropertyCodeValue=3896%3A27502%2C 07%3A17007&OEMMark=0&CompareItemList=N82E16819103735%2CN82E16819103733%2CN82E 6819103747%2CN82E16819103741%2CN82E16819103751%2CN82E16819103749%2CN82E168191 3759%2CN82E16819103030%2CN82E16819103544 -------Original Message------- From: Jin-Wei Tioh Date: 1/18/2007 8:33:43 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Need CPU + Motherboard + RAM + ?? What's the BEST? That's dead easy. Gigabyte 965P-DS3 (with _F7_ BIOS, F8 and F9 still have cold boot issues) Stock Intel HSF or Arctic Freezer 7 Pro (~$22 shipped at eWiz) E4300 (if you can wait for it to drop down to more reasonable price) E6400 Kingston Value RAM DDR2-667 (nice stuff - 1.8V stock and will reach DDR2-800 with just +0.1V) I'm using two of the DS3, Freezer 7, E6400 and 2GB of Kingston setups right now. Easy OC to 3.3GHz at 1.34Vcore, +0.1V MCH, +0.1V FSB, +0.1V RAM. HTH -- JW
