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925 or 875 Need help

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TBarnett

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I need some help deciding on some hardware.
Here are my choices, feel free to chime in and give me some input on system A or system B.

System A
Abit AA8XE Fatality Socket T 925Chipset
PCI Express Geforce 6800GT
2 Gig DDR2 RAM
P4 3.2EE

or

System B
DFI Lanparty Socket 478 875 Chipset (old version)
AGP Geforce 6800 Ultra
2 Gig DDR
P4 3.4EE

Do you think the chipset is able to make up for the loss in video and mhz? Im sure I can overclock them but which do you think would be better over all?
 
TBarnett said:
I need some help deciding on some hardware.
Here are my choices, feel free to chime in and give me some input on system A or system B.

System A
Abit AA8XE Fatality Socket T 925Chipset
PCI Express Geforce 6800GT
2 Gig DDR2 RAM
P4 3.2EE

or

System B
DFI Lanparty Socket 478 875 Chipset (old version)
AGP Geforce 6800 Ultra
2 Gig DDR
P4 3.4EE

Do you think the chipset is able to make up for the loss in video and mhz? Im sure I can overclock them but which do you think would be better over all?
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While I think system B might actually be faster, performance wise, I think system A is the SMARTER purchase. I am advising my clients to no longer embrace socket 478, as its "going away soon"
 
gman said:
How soon?
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At this point that's purely speculation......as s478 is still gonna be a fairly prominent platform option for awhile yet.

The second setup WOULD be faster.....as clock for clock the newer i925 setups are no faster then their s478 bretheren....and the slower DDR2 will hold you down initially......my vote is to grab the 3.4EE powered s478 system and be happy with the faster of two systems.....unless you plan on keeping the system for a good while and want to see what's around the corner for some of this tech.

Personally I'm not considering SLI until I see ATI bring something to the table.....and I'm not going A64 until I can afford to drop down a grand on an FX-55 setup....so I'm plenty happy and fine recommending s478 for now.
 
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