Purchasing a sstem need advice!

[HomerRulez]

I will be buying the following item and would like to know if it will outperform m RZ 40C1B VAIO? If so by how much? Also whats with the new 64bit CPUs by Intel? They any good? Better then a northwood? I would appreciate and and all help and thank you in advance!


CPU Intel P4 630 64bit 3.0Ghz 800Mhz FSB 2Mb L2 90nm
Motherboard ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE With µGuru Clock
RAM 1GB Corsair TWINX XMS2 5400 4-4-4-12 Latency Dual Channel DDR2
HeatSink Thermaltake Beetle Proformance Cooler Heatpipe
System HDD RAID 200GB Maxtor SATA II 7200 RPM 8Mb Cache NCQ
Optical Drive Plextor PX-716SA SATA 16x DVD-RW Black
Second Optical Drive NEC 3520A Dual Layer16x DVD +/- RW Black
Floppy Drive/IO Mitsumi Floppy 7 in 1 Card reader Black Compact Flash, MicroDrive, MemoryStick,SmartMedia, MultiMedia, or Secure Digital Cards and Floppy
Video SAPPHIRE Radeon X850 XT 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, Dual DVI, VIVO
Audio Intel High Definition 7.1 Audio Codec with separate sound card riser
PSU OCZ ModStream 520 Watt Modular Power Supply
Case Coolermaster CAVALIER 1 Black With Window
OS Windows XP Pro OEM
Warranty 3 Years repair/replacement for all parts.

 

[kirbyrj]

For starters, I'd get a Intel 955X or Nvidia NF4 Intel Ed. rather than that 925XE. Simply because you can run dual cores on the newer chipsets if you decide in the future to go that route.

Everything else looks ok (a lot of it is personal preference anyway). I don't think the Intel 64-bit is going to make that much of a difference. The 2mb cache is probably the bigger performance boost.

 

[HomerRulez]

whats wrong with what I have?

 

[kirbyrj]

Get a different mobo . Everything else looks fine .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131534

That's an example of the 955X (the Gigabyte one is also available but I'd stay away from Gigabyte).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131536

That's an example of the NF4 SLI Intel Ed. Either one would be better than the board you picked because the 925XE based board you originally had won't support dual cores.

 

[HomerRulez]

what is dual cores? Also this system is already built. Would it be good to just sell the mobo and have a techy install a new 955x board? How much can I get for the 925xe board?

 

[kirbyrj]

Dual cores are basically 2 CPU cores on the same socket. Instead of having to get 2 socket boards for multi-cpu processing, you basically get the same thing on 1 CPU (if that makes any sense).

If the system is already built, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I thought you were going to be buying parts and putting it together yourself.

If you want an idea about how much you could get for it, check the FS/FT forum or search on ebay. Like I said, probably not a big deal though. You should be fine.