Hello again... Firstly, let me just say that I have found this forum to be an excellent source of info & advice for the budding novice PC builder such as myself; the likes of Staffsmike, Blitzen, Dangel, Moogle (amongst many others!) are totally awesome in answering all the questions thrown out there, ya'll rock! (insert suitable audio - round of applause, general cheers and whistles etc etc)
Now, onto another question
I'm trying to decide on a CPU for my new PC... there are a lot of choices out there... plus there's the looming arrival of the vaunted Nehalem, which sounds like it could be a massive performance jump over ANY of the chips available today (and it's first iterations are rumored to be here in Q4 this year...) I know, I know, if you keep waiting for what's on the horizon, you'll never buy anything, but this does seem to be worth waiting for before spending 'big' money, right? It'll also mean a new motherboard and RAM as well won't it? So there's more pounds in the changeover...
So... what I'm wondering is: should I just buy the cheapest CPU, RAM & motherboard that'll satisfy my requirements for now, (basically, something that'll give me the performance boost I'm craving over my current aging 1.73ghz Pentium M powered laptop!), spend proper money on everything else (PSU, case, GPU & cooling etc) and then replace the cheap bits early 2009 (by which time I'll be well over the initial performance boost and will have overclocked my chip to death most likely!)
I've seen plenty of 'Bang-for-your-buck' PC's being built with the E2180 (overclocked considerably of course)... Should I just go down this path for now? I'm assuming this will give me the boost I crave? I need it to be able to run Photoshop CS3 (most importantly) and play Supreme Commander/World in Conflict/Crysis etc... I'll most likely opt for the upcoming HD 4870 as my GPU, so it's going to be the CPU that limits me (if anything) right? Will the lack of L2 cache be a factor as well? Oh, and I'll have a 24" and a 19" monitor setup
What do you think? Will a heavily overclocked E2180 or E2200 (watercooled) tickle my fancy till the end of the year?
I await your thoughts![]()


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