D805 or Venice 3200

[itswesty]

Hi, I am looking to get a new combo until conroe is in full flow, I have about £150 to spend, what do you recommend?

I was thinking either D805 due to the overclocking capabilities, or the Venice 3200, will either of these offer a great deal over my Barton 3000xp?

Thanks

[Scarlet Infidel]

Why dont you wait until the conroe compatible boards are out (shouldnt be long) then if you want put the D805 in there. Then when you decide to go conroe you already have the motherboard.

If you can overclock that D805 nice and high (needs a decent PSU, cooling and dont even think about the power bill or mother nature) then youll have a very fast pc (much better than the barton).

Edit: thinking again though, the conroe boards will probably cost a fair emount to start with and almsot all require DDR2 ram (theres one acception with an asrock board).

What Graphics card and ram are you hoping to use?

[itswesty]

Not really thought about ram and graphics just yet, was thinking of either using my AGP 5900, and 1gig of ddr, or perhaps upgrading to a not so good pci-express, and ddr2 ram in the near future, just trying to get an idea of cost. Thanks for the advice. I've got a P180 case, and the same psu as you!

[scrandman]

ASRock Dual thingy & Opteron 146. Should o/c better than a 3200 Venice & that board will allow you to use your AGP card with the possibility to upgrade to PCI-E in the future.

Should come to around £150.

[ash_rm]

Go for the D805 if you want a cheap Dual core, but will require pci-express Graphics card and ddr2 memory or go for the Venice/opteron and ASRock so you can use your existing parts.

[Dazz]

I was going to same the same thing if you do alot of things at once then the 805, if you game etc then the 3200+

[scrandman]

BTW - Conroe will be here shortly, so unless you have lots of money to burn, I'd stick with the XP3000 for another couple of months.

[itswesty]

Ok thanks, I am not sure if I can stretch to conroe, as I would have to get pci-e, and ddr2 ram, which I will do in the future when I have more money, people have been saying that an opty 144 is a better bet than the venice 3200, any thoughts? Thanks. But...does anyone know conroe pricing...roughly, with a gig of ddr2 ram, and perhaps a 7600?

[dom_xbox]

I've got an Abit GR-NI8 SLi board.. im sure i read somewhere this is conroe compatible.. is this true?

**flicks to google**

umm ok... just realised ive got an Nforce4 chipset as i was GOING to for an intel one (which is compatible)....

ahh well i just need to buy mobo and cpu... as i got DDr2 and PCI-E anyways..