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BIG Upgrade. Two Choices. Help

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Kitt2003

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Right now I have a 900MHz Athlon T-Bird with 256MB SDR, and a GF2 Ti 64MB DDR.

For $350 I can buy the DFI Ultra Inifinity, 2500+ Barton, 512MB DDR400, a GF4 Ti4200 AGP 8X, and a WD 80GB HD.

For $400 I can buy the MSI Intel 845PE Max, Intel P4 2.5Ghz 533Mhz FSB, 512MB DDR333, GF4 Ti4800 AGP4X, and a Maxtor 80GB HD and a full watercooling setup.

Which should I buy? I like the first setup cus the DDR400 RAM and Dual Channel support. but the 2nd setup is a frickin amazing deal, but theres no Dual Channel support, the mobo only supports AGP 4X, and an FSB of 533Mhz.

I'm almost definitly gonna go with the 2nd system, I'm just wondering if those faults are really gonna hold me down.
 
go AMD. it's at 800FSB and dual channel RAM that the intels really come into their own... anything less, it's probably best to stick with the cheaper AMD solution. you also might want to wait on buying till a Frys deal comes into play.. getting something like a DFI Nforce2 board and XP2800 for 160 (like my brother got last week.) pretty nice stuff. then 80 bucks for PC3200 DDR off outpost.com, and you got yourself a real performer, for a modest budget. then just add a video card, i reccommended the Geforce FX 5900XT from newegg a week ago, it was a great deal then and still a decent deal now..and for less than 320 you got yourself the core of a great system.
 
but theres no Dual Channel support, the mobo only supports AGP 4X, and an FSB of 533Mhz
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I would highly recommend thinking those letdowns over.

I'd also recommend getting the first system. You'll be able to overclock the 2500+ to 3200+ almost guaranteed.

You didn't mention which P4 is in your 2nd system option, but I'm guessing it'll be a 2.66 or 2.8. Either way, it'll be a 533 one, and no HT (I don't think?).

I'd keep that extra $50 and get a 9800 Pro for $200 after saving up some more.

With that DFI Infinity your options are pretty unlimited, so I'd definitely recommend that over the MSI board.
 
Hyperthreading on all the 533 mhz processers is available, but disabled on the chip itself. only the 3.06 ghz p4 has hyperthreading on the 533 mhz fsb.

yeah.. these 2 performance letdowns really keep the p4 from coming into it's own. a comparable AMD speeded processor will perform a good deal better than the P4's of the 533 mhz fsb.
 
Yeah, I'd go with the AMD too. If you're going to go with Intel, I'd get a 2.4C or something. A 533 fsb CPU is probably not the way to go now. Plus, you'll probably get 3200+ out of the AMD setup.

Originally posted by Walleye
go AMD. it's at 800FSB
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AMD has never made an 800 FSB Athlon XP CPU... The intel "C" processors are 800 FSB because it's 200 mhZ quad pumped (200 * 4 = 800), the Athlon XP's are 400 mhZ front side bus, which is 200 dual pumped (200 * 2 = 400). I don't mean to sound rude, or do a "I'm right and you're wrong!" type thing, I just don't want him to think the Athlon XP's FSB will completely kill the Intel's :)
 
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