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Conroe help/questions

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Ok I am thinking about building a new system for Christmas and I have a few questions. I have been with AMD for awhile now so I am a little new to this Conroe stuff. First off is it even worth my time upgrading? Currently I have a 4600+ X2 2 gigs of memory etc. I was planning on going with the E6600 chip, board, new memory etc. Will I see a big difference? Also I don't plan on overclocking. I just want a nice stable system. So is it worth it for me to upgrade? Also what mainboard would you recommend? I was looking at this one...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128323

Or should I go with an intel board? I was kinda wanting to stay away from ASUS since I can't stand their BIOS. Thanks for the help guys.
 
IMHO, conroe will get better value when OC and the chip is very OC-able compared to my past experience with the A64.
I'm running my E6300 on Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi @ 3.05GHz (stock cooling). Blow everything away including my work rig (A64 4800+ Asus A8N32-SLI OC @ 2.58GHz).
That Abit board is quite popular too, if you don't wanna go Asus. Also, bunch of P965 board comparison here;
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/
My OC experience with C2D is very smooth. Strongly recommended.
 
You'll see a difference. I can feel a difference when I switch between the PD940 systems and the E6600 system at my work. You'll feel a huge difference if you tack on a higher end graphics card that requires more CPU power, so your bottleneck will be greatly reduced. As for the motherboard you linked to, it's a good motherboard, but the board has some messed up bios problems, so if you're up for waiting for gigabyte to crank one out, I'd probably recommend against that motherboard.

For an E6600, it's also recommended that you get a 975X chipset motherboard instead of the i965. The 975X has tighter timings and will overclock the E6600 better if you ever do feel like overclocking one day.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127011

this motherboard is pretty good. Stable and can overclock. There are still some little bios problems, but Abit seems to be working them out.

The DQ6 is a good motherbard, though, and if you choose to buy that, you're still not going to regret it, but the AW9D-Max is also a good board if you want to compare the DQ6 to any other motherboards out there.
 
i was a little hesitant to make the swap, always been amd myself, but whoa! definatly when multitaking stuff it's pretty cool, to do 3-4 things at the same time and have 3% processor used is awesome. my rig is in my sig below i'm just an intel beginner and i've just tried a few setting and mine has been at 2.7ghz (not much of a OC at all but i'm not one to mess with stuff a whole lot) and had no problems at all. i'd say go for it!
 
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