i saw a deal in the fry's ad a little while ago ( a few days) wherre they had an ECS motherboard (PCI-e and AGP) and a x2 3800+ for about 279.99 +tax so around 300, than you have 200 to spend on a gpu, in which i would get a 7600gt
Ok of all the many times i reformatted my own personal computer using my streamline of winxp pro and sp2 with all the hotfixes, this time is the worst.
A long time ago I bought winxp and registered my computer, etc. Well about a year ago i made a streamline of winxp, xp2, and the hotfixes...
either a 3800 or a 4400, depending on wether or not you think the extra $$ is worth it for the cache.
I think so, my friend 3800+ although his OCs more than mine, and reaches a higher overall clock speeds, i beat him in cpu bench mark scores. Idunno how or why but i guess teh cache just...
agreed, although my friend with an fx57 processor runs apts faster, his multitasking ability kinda blows, sometimes i burn a dvd and play cs at the same time :D
so what if you screw up that therma paste that was there, buy some arctic silver 5 and replace it. Try buying a new heat sink fan such as zalman cnps 9500
before i had it at 59c, but i went out and bought some heatsinks, for the pwmic heatsink. Stuck about 3 of them on there and lowered my temps by 7C. yes i was amazed as well. now i idle at 52-54C