Advice

[xerocool83]

My girlfriends little sister is about to start college and we told her we, read I, would build her a computer if she could pay half. I was lucky in when I started looking around to see that DIY 4Ghz computer with a 805 D chip. As I am currently a fan of AMD but am interested in this chip as for its value to power ratio. I have heard that it is clocked all the way to 4.1 as the article says, but I don't believe I would push it that far for her. She will be using it mostly for photoshop, games and anything else required by school. I am just wondering that when they say that I could easily get the Pentium 805 D to clock to 3.6 Ghz does that mean it is comparible to the AMD 3600 or does that mean I can actually compare it too an AMD that is Clocked to 3.6Ghz.
Thanks
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[ikjadoon]

Hmm....No offense, but I don't think that project was very realistic. It consumes way too much power and puts off enough heat to replace your home heater. It will be very hard to get that chip to 4.0Ghz, anyways.

You are correct, though, that a 3.5Ghz P4 would equal around the performance of a 3500+, or so AMD wants us to believe.

You'd be better off with an AM2/Core 2 Duo setup, I think. Just slap in a X2 3800+, a slight OC to 2.4, 1GB of memory, a 7600GT, 400W FSP PSU, a nice 320GB Seagate hard drive, and a Centurion for the case. Out of budget?

~Ibrahim~

 

[kwalker]

The 805 is great if you’re going to use it for its potential. .but I would recommend the D920 or 930 for lower oc’s with stock cooling .Good video card and 2gigs ram.
D920 @ 266fsb = D965EE without hyper threading.
The D9XX CPU’s are 65 nm and more thermally efficient and run closer to stock voltages at smaller fsb oc’s (stock cooling)
With the introduction of Core2 the prices have come down across the board on most every earlier CPU.
With that said a reliable pc for your girl friends little sister would be a good Amd without any overclocking.
Just think …no phone calls at 2:00 in the morning because the overclocked 805 let the smoke out.
You did mention games so amd will be the better CPU for that unless of course you’re an extreme overclock hound or build the core2 platform.
Well that’s my 2 cents.
Every one else seems tired of the 805 threads.

 

[xerocool83]

well the thing is she is can only really swing about a 800-900 dollars max computer...so thats why i am going for the 805D
She doesnt play the newest computer games or anything....she is a fan of Morrowind.

I will go check those prices you guys suggested right now and see what we can swing.
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