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I'm about to go cross-eyed from all the reviews and forums. I'm down to the motherboard and processor for my final decision. I should say up front, its an Intel or AMD choice however, it's not rather which is faster but, just a solid stability.
The decision....
I've read problems with the vcore voltage issues with the AMD board from Asus. Some other issues have been with the BIOS and, I think some other problems have been with cheap RAM or compability for the most part. See, if I can find and post the threads.
Intel side, I guess I'm standing at the line, waiting to see if the Asus/AMD stability issue is just a rare random thing. Haven't found, where someone is completely satisfied with their X2/Asus mobo setup. So, the hesitation towards Intel is due to the dual-core reviews for Intel vs AMD just show AMD the top winner in everything. But, some reviews have been taken with a grain of salt due to the setups. Most dual core reviews placed the 840 D against the X2 4800, which is not a fair "duel" and others did it correctly and placed the 840 D XE against the X2 4800.
I did find one setup with a X2 3800 vs the 3 chips in Intel's D line up (not the D XEs) and the X2 3800 out performed all 3 chips. However, it never indicated standard or OC'd setups.
Also, remember reading about one of the cpu's and mobo's having bandwidth issues or something along those lines. Some type of bottlenecking.
Usage:
Gaming - WoW, BF2, HL2
Applications - Maya, Video (Premiere and Studio), Flash, compression, Visual Studio
The two setups, I'm considering.
Asus - P5WD2 Premium
Intel - 840 D
Corsair - DDR2 6400 2GB
Asus - A8N-SLI Premium
AMD - Athlon 64 X2 4400
Corsair - DDR PC3200 2GB
Rest of the setup:
Case - Thermal Take VA8000
PSU - Pc Power & Cooling 510 SLI
VC - eVGA 7800GTX
Cooling:
CPU - Thermalright - XP-120 w/ 120 Panaflo
VC - stock
Chipset - stock
I don't plan to OC so, I'll stick with Air Cooling. Water Cooling was an option but, from what I've gathered, if I'm not OCing.. than there's really no need for WCing.
Thanks for the help.
The decision....
I've read problems with the vcore voltage issues with the AMD board from Asus. Some other issues have been with the BIOS and, I think some other problems have been with cheap RAM or compability for the most part. See, if I can find and post the threads.
Intel side, I guess I'm standing at the line, waiting to see if the Asus/AMD stability issue is just a rare random thing. Haven't found, where someone is completely satisfied with their X2/Asus mobo setup. So, the hesitation towards Intel is due to the dual-core reviews for Intel vs AMD just show AMD the top winner in everything. But, some reviews have been taken with a grain of salt due to the setups. Most dual core reviews placed the 840 D against the X2 4800, which is not a fair "duel" and others did it correctly and placed the 840 D XE against the X2 4800.
I did find one setup with a X2 3800 vs the 3 chips in Intel's D line up (not the D XEs) and the X2 3800 out performed all 3 chips. However, it never indicated standard or OC'd setups.
Also, remember reading about one of the cpu's and mobo's having bandwidth issues or something along those lines. Some type of bottlenecking.
Usage:
Gaming - WoW, BF2, HL2
Applications - Maya, Video (Premiere and Studio), Flash, compression, Visual Studio
The two setups, I'm considering.
Asus - P5WD2 Premium
Intel - 840 D
Corsair - DDR2 6400 2GB
Asus - A8N-SLI Premium
AMD - Athlon 64 X2 4400
Corsair - DDR PC3200 2GB
Rest of the setup:
Case - Thermal Take VA8000
PSU - Pc Power & Cooling 510 SLI
VC - eVGA 7800GTX
Cooling:
CPU - Thermalright - XP-120 w/ 120 Panaflo
VC - stock
Chipset - stock
I don't plan to OC so, I'll stick with Air Cooling. Water Cooling was an option but, from what I've gathered, if I'm not OCing.. than there's really no need for WCing.
Thanks for the help.