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NeoSlayer888

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I will be doing mostly AutoCAD, Solidworks, and gaming. On the P4 system I planed on getting another stick of 512 for dual channel. Does the ABIT mobo support dual channel? I don’t think it does but would like a concrete answer. So please recommend what system should work better for me. Or just flame or give me a general subjection.

ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard Retail $185
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C Northwood Retail $219
Corsair CMX512-3200XL Retail $169
Lian-Li PC-78 Retail $101
Antec TRUE480 Retail $85
Microsoft Windows XP Professional OEM $141

$900


Or


ABIT K8T800 Pro $105
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Retail $223
2x Corsair Value Select 512mb PC-3200 2.5 Latency OEM $170
Lian-Li PC-78 Retail $101
Antec TRUE480 Retail $85
Microsoft Windows XP Professional OEM $141

$825
 
What are you planning to do for a graphics card? Besides that, both setups look pretty solid.
 
If autocad & solidworks support multiple CPUs the P4 setup would probably be better since it's got hyperthreading. Of course, a dual AMD rig would probably bring even more performance in that case for a bit of extra cost. That would hurt gaming performance though due to the slow 266 fsb.
 
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