Which combo would you pick?

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If someone was going to give you the choice of taking 1 of 2 systems, which would you take?

No. 1 - AM2 motherboard (with 1 x16 pci-e slot for video card), x2 4800 cpu, 2gb RAM, x1800xt pci-e video card

No. 2 - socket 775 motherboard (with 1 x4 pci-e slot for video card), E6600 cpu, 2gb RAM, x1800xt pci-e video card

Basically, with everything being as equal as possible, would you rather have an x2 4800 with a full x16 slot or the E6600 with only an x4 slot for the video card?
 
But even at stock you'd pick the E6600, right? That's what I'm thinking. I read some reviews on using a video card in an x4 slot and the differences were not that significant.
 
id go for the AM2 bundle, ive always had AMD... no problems at all, it all depends if your going to overclock..... and why have you chosen the x1800 gpu??
 
Dreamscience said:
id go for the AM2 bundle, ive always had AMD... no problems at all, it all depends if your going to overclock..... and why have you chosen the x1800 gpu??
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LOL, it's not that I've "chosen" that video card; it's what I already have. I own both of these systems, but at some point I will give one of these motherboard/cpu combos to my son to replace his single core Opteron 939 system. He is actually running the x1800xt in his PC right now, and even after I give him one of these combos I'll continue to run that card. Right now the E6600 combo is in my HTPC with a 2600xt, and the x2 4800 combo is used in my main/gaming/internet PC with an 8800 GTS 512. I feel that it is a little backwards, but I already built the E6600 HTPC and I didn't feel like changing 2 PC's so I just set the 4800 up as my main PC and kept the E6600 the way it was. But at some point I will upgrade to something better as my main/gaming PC and will either give my son the x2 4800 and am2 motherboard or give him the E6600 and make the 4800 my HTPC.
 
htpc_user said:
But even at stock you'd pick the E6600, right? That's what I'm thinking. I read some reviews on using a video card in an x4 slot and the differences were not that significant.
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The performance penalty was at most 10% and that was with the 8800GTX IIRC. Too lazy to pull up the article now but it was Anandtech and it was a review of a Asrock mobo

So another vote for the E6600 build. The X2 4800+ would be a bottleneck with many newer games. Even at stock speeds, the E6600 would be a good deal faster and significantly less of a bottleneck than the X2 4800+.
 
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