tgm4883
February 6th, 2007, 03:38 AM
Ok, I have been looking to upgrade and now have a little money to do so. I plan on being in the neighborhood of 225. I will be upgrading from an athlon xp 2000+ with 768MB of ram. I use Ubuntu 6.10.
Now looking at my options I feel it would be best to upgrade my Motherboard, Ram, and Processor, but would still like to be able to upgrade down the road my video card and perhaps a processor if needed. I am currently looking at two configurations I found at a local store (PC Club)
Config 1:
Gigabyte MATX CONROE 945GZ GA-945GZM-S2
INTEL Pentium D 820 2.8GHz RETAIL processor (Pentium D 915 +40)
KINGSTON 512MB Valueram DDR2 533 - PC4200 CL4
Total $234.98
Config 2:
GIGABYTE GA-M61VME-S2 nForce 400 mATX Motherboard - Socket A
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket AM2 (Retail)
KINGSTON 512MB Valueram DDR2 533 - PC4200 CL4
$224.98
I do light gaming (Heavy gaming is what the 360 is for), but what I really want to do is start encoding videos for my PSP as well as have a faster machine.
I haven't really heard much about the Pentium D, heard much more about the core duo, and the X2 is an option to upgrade at a later date (The amd board supports X2 while the intel board supports Core 2 Duo). I figure dual core 64-bit is the way to go. Im just not sure the performance difference I will see between these two so I figured I would ask here.
Now looking at my options I feel it would be best to upgrade my Motherboard, Ram, and Processor, but would still like to be able to upgrade down the road my video card and perhaps a processor if needed. I am currently looking at two configurations I found at a local store (PC Club)
Config 1:
Gigabyte MATX CONROE 945GZ GA-945GZM-S2
INTEL Pentium D 820 2.8GHz RETAIL processor (Pentium D 915 +40)
KINGSTON 512MB Valueram DDR2 533 - PC4200 CL4
Total $234.98
Config 2:
GIGABYTE GA-M61VME-S2 nForce 400 mATX Motherboard - Socket A
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket AM2 (Retail)
KINGSTON 512MB Valueram DDR2 533 - PC4200 CL4
$224.98
I do light gaming (Heavy gaming is what the 360 is for), but what I really want to do is start encoding videos for my PSP as well as have a faster machine.
I haven't really heard much about the Pentium D, heard much more about the core duo, and the X2 is an option to upgrade at a later date (The amd board supports X2 while the intel board supports Core 2 Duo). I figure dual core 64-bit is the way to go. Im just not sure the performance difference I will see between these two so I figured I would ask here.