ilovesocks
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Agreed! Since you're not overclocking, a dual-core processor will set you up nicely for the future, since games will soon take advantage of both cores. If you were an overclocker, I'd've voted for the Opteron. I've got a Raptor (the only SATA 10K-rpm hard drive) and it's great.Vybuni said:1) X2 4400. The FX series are just too **** expensive. The 4400 is well above the requirements of any game out there.
2) The 10K RPM drives will give you the best performance.
3) Probably forget SLI for now. If you want to you can get an SLI board and one card (7800gt) and get another one later when the prices drop and your performance starts to suck. One 7800gt can handle ANY game out there on max settings fine.
I don't think a 7800GT can handle quite ANY game on max settings (not even a 7800GTX-512mb can do that), but it's pretty close . . . for now.
It's 2.2 GHz and it's not per core. AMD processors run at lower clockspeeds than Intels but they get more done per cycle. A 1.8GHz AMD processor is equivalent to a 3GHz Intel. The reason overclockers get Opterons is that they tend to be more overclockable than Athlons - but they're equivalent MHz for MHz. A 2.2GHz AMD is quite a bit faster than a 2.8 Pentium.Aurigae said:> X2 4400 Toledo..........runs at 2.2 MHz but is that per core? Does he need dual core if he doesn't multitask much?
> Opteron 170...........Runs at around 2.2 MHz, how can it be that great? Mine from 3 years ago is a 2.8 pentium...I've heard great things about Opteron from overclockers but we don't mess with overclocking.