Vortex
07-30-2005, 10:59 PM
Hi, i'm new to the boards and thought i'd start off my first post with a couple of OC questions since your members seem extremely good at OCing :clap: Anyway, i'm about to go AMD and i've google'd like literally 50 searches on the subject and i've learned alot but i've got a couple of questions and a setup that I was thinking might work pretty well. Here's the setup I had in mind:
AMD 3000+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
AMD 3200+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
AMD 3500+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
From what i've heard all of the above OC reasonably well and are around the same price range, not sure if the 3200+ would be the best seems to be that way atleast to me.
As for the mobo I was thinking DFI and their nF4 UT Ultra D since its supposed to work really well with OCing and everything.
Then the memory and PSU are the next biggest things it seems like, the PSU is easy since I can go with a PC Power & Cooling 510 ATX or SLI depending on the GPU I choose. Then...the hardest (atleast for me part) choosing the right memory, I was thinking about the G.Skill Samsung TCCD or their newer alternative which is supposed to work exceedingly (sp?) well.
G.Skill Extreme Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) F1-4800DSU2-1GBFF
G.Skill 1GB (2 x 512MB) F1-4400DSU2-1GBFC
The latter of the two works well from what i've read and it appears that most can get it around 275mhz whereas the more expensive does 300mhz without breaking a sweat and i've heard people have gotten it much higher like 325mhz or so. I dunno maybe for the price the latter would be better although if getting a good OC would require more expensive memory then so be it, thing is the first Samsung TCCD is like $300 at the egg whereas the other is $185 I dunno though to me if i'm paying $250 I just might as well grab the higher memory since it'll most likely be better.
Sorry for the rant, but i'm attempting to get an actual worthwhile post on this since everywhere else people don't usually even post on the topic or answer any of my questions :( if you don't mind please tell me if i'm correct on my assumptions and and from what i've interpreted from what I have read on the subject hopefully i've figured out a decent setup I was hoping to stay around the $1500 mark on the full from the ground up system.
AMD 3000+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
AMD 3200+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
AMD 3500+ Venice Integrated Into Chip
From what i've heard all of the above OC reasonably well and are around the same price range, not sure if the 3200+ would be the best seems to be that way atleast to me.
As for the mobo I was thinking DFI and their nF4 UT Ultra D since its supposed to work really well with OCing and everything.
Then the memory and PSU are the next biggest things it seems like, the PSU is easy since I can go with a PC Power & Cooling 510 ATX or SLI depending on the GPU I choose. Then...the hardest (atleast for me part) choosing the right memory, I was thinking about the G.Skill Samsung TCCD or their newer alternative which is supposed to work exceedingly (sp?) well.
G.Skill Extreme Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) F1-4800DSU2-1GBFF
G.Skill 1GB (2 x 512MB) F1-4400DSU2-1GBFC
The latter of the two works well from what i've read and it appears that most can get it around 275mhz whereas the more expensive does 300mhz without breaking a sweat and i've heard people have gotten it much higher like 325mhz or so. I dunno maybe for the price the latter would be better although if getting a good OC would require more expensive memory then so be it, thing is the first Samsung TCCD is like $300 at the egg whereas the other is $185 I dunno though to me if i'm paying $250 I just might as well grab the higher memory since it'll most likely be better.
Sorry for the rant, but i'm attempting to get an actual worthwhile post on this since everywhere else people don't usually even post on the topic or answer any of my questions :( if you don't mind please tell me if i'm correct on my assumptions and and from what i've interpreted from what I have read on the subject hopefully i've figured out a decent setup I was hoping to stay around the $1500 mark on the full from the ground up system.