Athlon X2 6000+ vs C2D E6420

[einheriar]

A few facts:



3. There are no socket AM2 boards that support AGP if I remember correctly, although a socket 775 Core 2 Duo board that supports DDR RAM will generally also support AGP.

I am actually typing this on my recently upgraded motherboard I just got a x1950pro AGP card as guarantee exchange for an x800xl. It is an asrock am2nf3 with AGP am2 4000+. so they are there..

 

[MikePHD]

Wow, I feel like I am in a room with some long lost brothers. I myself just updated from the AMD xp 2500+, since it was starting to show its age (ok ok I was gaming on medium at 1024x768 on some old games like WoW). I too updated for UT2k7, and sooner, Quakes Wars.

I bought up a 6420 believe it or not, some cheap 80 dollar ram, and a DS3. Currently Im sitting at 3.0Ghz at below stock volts, and I haven't had a problem with anything at max. It really is a beautiful processor that is very much underated in my book, unless you really want 3.6 with the 6600's high multi (I probably could even get closer to that if I wanted to feed mine some volts who knows). Anyway, you will be very very happy, if you are anything like me : ).

 

[MU_Engineer]

I am actually typing this on my recently upgraded motherboard I just got a x1950pro AGP card as guarantee exchange for an x800xl. It is an asrock am2nf3 with AGP am2 4000+. so they are there..

I haven't seen or used any of the ASRock boards, so I suppose I might have missed it. After taking a look at them, they seem to make some unusual combinations of parts, such as the Intel boards that have AGP and PCIe as well as the ones that have two memory controllers, one for DDR and the next for DDR2. Do you know of any others than the ASRock that pair together AGP and Socket AM2?

 

[Mr_Wang]

You should just bite the bullet, scrap all of your old hardware, and buy a new system. Since you aren't interested in OC'ing and are on a very limited budget I suggest you put together an AM2 based system. My suggestions for parts would be:
CPU: Athlon 64 4200+ $80
Mobo: Abit K9N SLI $100
RAM: 1GB DDR2 Value Ram (purchase 2nd stick down the road) $45
Video Card: EVGA 7900GS $105 (after $20 rebate)

That combination of parts comes out to $330 + shipping. You could probably get a cheaper motherboard and beef up the processor a bit, but I don't know anything about the chipsets below the NForce 570 and that is why I recommended a board based off of it. Hopefully your power supply will suffice and you have a hard drive and case you can reuse. Having to move to PCIe and get rid of your recently purchased video card is rough, but at the end of the day you will be much happier with the above setup than you would by choking a C2D CPU with 333MHz RAM.

 

[fx51]

I haven't seen or used any of the ASRock boards, so I suppose I might have missed it. After taking a look at them, they seem to make some unusual combinations of parts, such as the Intel boards that have AGP and PCIe as well as the ones that have two memory controllers, one for DDR and the next for DDR2. Do you know of any others than the ASRock that pair together AGP and Socket AM2?

BioStar and MSI also have the AGP + AM2 combination, one of the MB is $35 after MIR.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200022+1070921489+1073407577&name=1+x+AGP+4X+%2f+8X


I recently upgrade from fx-51 to X2 6000.

I have the 1950 pro(AGP) and because is still a good card I decide to upgrade to AGP MB system.
I build my new system with $340 buck (CPU, 2GB DDR2 MEM and MB).

And I paid this price when the CPU was more expensive.

I recommend to go with the x2.

 

[djgandy]

DDR on the asrock is not a problem. I run it, people over rate memory bandwidth far too much these days.

 

[liquidx]

Ok, sorry for not posting guys, I was out of town for a couple.
The problem with getting the 6750 is that it uses a 1333 fsb and the asrock board doesn't support that high, it only goes to 1066.
I just watched a vid card identical to mine go for over $100 on ebay which would mean I would actually make a few bucks off replacing that. And if I can sell my mobo I have now, it should net me the cash to get the DDR2, or at least damn close to it, enough I could foot the rest. There is an advantage to buying a high end board, the resale stays up there. I watched a mobo like mine, but only mobo, no cables/discs etc... go for about $70. I have all the discs and extra cables and the deluxe board honestly loses some of it's "luxe" when you don't have the extra cables because of the ports they put on them. So mine should fetch more.
I appreciate everyone's help. In light of what I said above, I will be seriously looking at a couple other mobos, I have heard a lot of good things about the DS3, and since I do plan to OC later, that might be what I go with.