Once E4300 goes down, I'm gonna be all over it

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william_fontaine

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I'm thinking that this will be a pretty good base for cheap OC:

E4300
GA-965P-S3
OCZ S.O.E 2x1GB DDR2 667 (linky)

Once I can get all this for ~$400 I think it will be a pretty good upgrade from a 3.2 GHz P4 w/ 1GB ram. Toss in the existing HDD and x1900XT and 500W PSU and I'm hoping it'll be a decent setup that lets me OC to around 3.0 Ghz.
 
Very sweet deal considering you can OC the hell outta that chip and be within 10% performance of the X6800. I have been waiting for Vista and Some DirectX10 titles and benchies to upgrade, hardest part is waiting.
 
That is the same setup I purchased on friday. It will be arriving tomorrow, well all except the ram. Newegg shipped that from back east instead of cali so it will be here thursday.

My exact setup, all purchased at newegg:
E4300
Scythe Ninja
GA-965P-S3
OCZ S.O.E 2x1GB DDR2 667
BFG 7600GT ( Possibly upgrading to 8600 series if I decide I need it )
Seagate 7200.10 250GB
Hiper 580W PS ( Was going to get 600W GameXstream from another source for $80 AR but settled on this just to make things easier )

Reusing my old case Xaser II case, haven't made up my mind on sound yet I will likely find a cheap audigy card.

Price: $857.94 - $80 MIR = $777.98 before shipping.

I would have waited for for Q2 2007 but I've been without a gaming computer for 4 months now, my old one fried....Thanks APC :mad: So I bought this just to get me going again, I will likely purchase another system in a year or so.
 
Dont wait to long or there will something new out there and then you well end up waiting for that. Its a endless cycle.
 
I thought the 4xxx series chips were slower than the 6xxxx series. Am I wrong or just confused?
 
they're 66 mhz slower than a 6300 at stock speed, but they have a 9x multiplier instead of 7x. This = much easier and cheaper overclocking because RAM doesn't need to run so fast in order to get the CPU up to around 3Ghz.

They have the same cache as 6300 and 6400 as well, but there is some virtualization hardware that's omitted from the 4300 -- so if you're running VMWare, this is a bad CPU. Otherwise, pretty soon it's gonna be a really sweet overclocking deal.
 
great deal for overclocking, but in Q2 prices drop to 143ish... kentsfield will drop too, also the E6x20's will be out :) 4mb cache for cheap! and yes you CAN tell the difference between 2 and 4mb cache. i didn't think you could until i got my E6600 in. 15.2s SuperPi 1m FTW!
 
Bench marks may show a difference but I doubt normal users will/can tell the difference betwwen a 2mb and 4mb cache.
 
>> But being a waiter, is much cheaper than being an upgrader. <<

Yeah because you only jump for something once every 2 or 3 years, haha.

I've upgraded this P4 3.2 a little bit, got a 22" wide lcd, x-fi, and X1900xt over the course of a year to replace the older components. But now the processor is the obvious bottleneck on a lot of the stuff I do, and it won't be too long before the good stuff in the Dell gets transplanted to a new body.
 
Well i usually upgrade BLINDLY but i really want to see games on Vista and how they perform with NVidias card and ATIs yet to be seen R600. Ill jump in once i see who is gonna be on top.
 
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