On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Iliev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0100 > Branko Badrljica <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Given your CPU choices, it is obvious that you are ignoring i7, I >> suspect beacise the price. >> > > Correct. After all even the platform I'm targeting at is an overkill > for my Home desktop needs. > >> In that case, I think you should reconsider AMD. I have a couple of >> Phenoms, which work really fine with Gentoo. >> >> However, if its lower frequency and smaller cache of 9850 and 9950 is >> what bothers you, you should consider Deneb, which is to come out any >> day now. > > I was told to wait for "the new Phenom", though the guy said rumor has > it the release will be in Jan or Feb next year. Anyways, it doesn't > matter for me. I had Athlon-XP, now I'm with a Sempron. It's time to > get an Intel for a change. I hope a CPU like those I target at will be > more than enough for my computing needs for the next 2 or 3 > years. > > So, my questions still remain: > - q6600, e8400 or q8200? Which is faster after overclock with plain > air cooling and plain mid-tower box? > - what mobo should I take for it > - what kind of ddr2 should I get
I personally run an Asus Maximus board with a Q6600 OC'd to 3.4G & 8 gigs of DDR2 800. That said theres little reason to run a quad core for just desktop type stuff so my suggestion would be to go with the E8400 & some low latency DDR2 1066 or 1200. 4 GHz is typically obtainable with that CPU so you don't want the RAM to be your limiting factor. The P5K series is based on the older P35 chipset, you should prolly go with the P45 based series - P5Q. The only differences between Pro, -E, Deluxe, etc models are extra ports & bling. Just figure out if you need extra wifi or sata ports or esata then go with the cheapest model that meets your needs. A lot of people on this list (myself included) use a tmpfs to speed up compilations, a good motivator for 4 gigs of RAM if you can handle it.
