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intel duel core motherboard/chip ideas


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im building a new pc system and have been planning on going with amd but now im hearing intel has taking the lead in performance. What is a good intel motherboard. i liked Asus for amd but do they also make great intel boards? and a good intel chip.

price limits

motherboard $100ish

chip 150ish

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well intel is only taking over with their new core 2 duo.

the cheapeset one at newegg is 230$...

an average mobo for it will cost ~100$ asus is a good brand

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....=&maxPrice=

so this is the best performing chip out right now. now you could go pentium D which isnt rly better than the amd dual cores... but if i were you i would save up some money and wait for prices to drop a little, unless you need the computer right now.

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well i was orignally going to go with just an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with a 3800+ x2 chip

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131540

i had considered am2 but i wasnt sure how well perfected they are. if you had suggestions on am2 chips and motherboard plz share. plus i heard performace hasnt improved that much yet with these new chipsets. your thoughts?

also ripkin you have opteron i see but what is the difference between opteron and sempron vs athlon?

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opterons are meant for servers, therefore they go thru more intents testing to make sure they are good. they tend to overclock a hell of alot. all models of them seem to hit at least 2.6ghz-2.7ghz. but if u want to overclock then i would suggest getting a dfi board.

am2 doesnt have much of a performance increase at all but you are future proofed. you have ddr2 and support for am3.

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As of right now Intel Core 2 Duo chips are in high demand and due to the lite shortage, i would recommend waiting about 3 months as the prices for Core 2 6300 will be low, Refer to Core 2 Duo Topic. Their is boards out their that support Core2 Duo. However Ausu and Gigabyte are the two of choice.

Newegg shows the E6300 and E6400 priced around $229 and $299 respectively. This is well above the distributor price of $183 and $224.

ZipZoomFly shows the E6300 and E6400 priced around $ $208 and $256 respectively.

Note: Back after classified military operations.

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