vaio
12-23-2006, 04:50 PM
Dunno if it'll happen but I have designs on a Kentsfield.
It's primary purpose in life will be running folding at home...and I am not averse to a lil mild overclocking.
What would you suggest to accompany this cpu?
Need advice on ram and motherboard, especially ram.
Boards I have tentatively in mind:
Asus P5B Deluxe wifi edition.
Abit AB9/AB9 Pro.
Gigabyte DS3.
Any others I should consider?
Any cheaper capable boards out there?
Scythe ninja plus or AC freezer 7 pro should be adequate cooling-wise?
Considering using a Corsair 520 psu or an OCZ GameXtream 600 for powering the rig.
GPU will be a low spec job, my old 9800se at best.
Never used DDR 2 ram and don't much understand it.
Given that I am not looking for awesome clocks at 1:1 do I need the fancy stuff, eg...6400?
Would lower end...4200/5300 suffice?
Spose I need a fair bit of it with 4 folding clients running....2 gb should do I guess.
Anyway, if you could suggest which boards and ram to look at I'd appreciate it.
Given the cpu cost, (well over 600 pounds) I want to skimp elsewhere as much as I can, in the short term at least.
Don't need fancy ram for folding but I would like to pretty much max out the cpu and get lots of work done for Stanford.
If I could keep the total build cost close to a grand it'd help.
Would appreciate your feedback.
It's primary purpose in life will be running folding at home...and I am not averse to a lil mild overclocking.
What would you suggest to accompany this cpu?
Need advice on ram and motherboard, especially ram.
Boards I have tentatively in mind:
Asus P5B Deluxe wifi edition.
Abit AB9/AB9 Pro.
Gigabyte DS3.
Any others I should consider?
Any cheaper capable boards out there?
Scythe ninja plus or AC freezer 7 pro should be adequate cooling-wise?
Considering using a Corsair 520 psu or an OCZ GameXtream 600 for powering the rig.
GPU will be a low spec job, my old 9800se at best.
Never used DDR 2 ram and don't much understand it.
Given that I am not looking for awesome clocks at 1:1 do I need the fancy stuff, eg...6400?
Would lower end...4200/5300 suffice?
Spose I need a fair bit of it with 4 folding clients running....2 gb should do I guess.
Anyway, if you could suggest which boards and ram to look at I'd appreciate it.
Given the cpu cost, (well over 600 pounds) I want to skimp elsewhere as much as I can, in the short term at least.
Don't need fancy ram for folding but I would like to pretty much max out the cpu and get lots of work done for Stanford.
If I could keep the total build cost close to a grand it'd help.
Would appreciate your feedback.