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Fatwah on Western Digital
Monarch Computer is offering preorders for price-cut AMD X2s + motherboards right now.
AM2 X2 3800 + Gigabyte 6100 motherboard = $237.
AM2 X2 3800 + Gigabyte 6100 motherboard = $237.
Monarch has teh X2s
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Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
keep in mind when I built my computer a while back it was 382 just for the x2 3800+ processor
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Fatwah on Western Digital
There's really just nVidia right now, and you know I don't like saying that. But Via's not to be found in AM2-land and the companies I trust for boards don't trust ATI enough to offer their chipsets.
Anyway, I feel Will's pain. I have a $600 X2/4600 and a $500 X2/4400.
Anyway, I feel Will's pain. I have a $600 X2/4600 and a $500 X2/4400.
That the hateful/hurtful thing about IT, how quickly and how savagely prices come down. But I bought an X2 soon after the launch and the price did not move much until now, so I'm happy. If I'd bought an X2 in say the April~now time frame, I'd be hurtin'.
I see gigabyte has the following chipset offerings:
An nforce 4 GA-M55SLI-S4 @$97
GA-M51GM-S2G NVIDIA GeForce 6100 @$79
GA-M59SLI-S5 nForce 590 @$197
GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570 @140
That's quite a big price difference in AM2 boards. Is the nforce 570 & 590 worth the price premium over nforce 4? I haven't been following the chipsets in a while now.
An nforce 4 GA-M55SLI-S4 @$97
GA-M51GM-S2G NVIDIA GeForce 6100 @$79
GA-M59SLI-S5 nForce 590 @$197
GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570 @140
That's quite a big price difference in AM2 boards. Is the nforce 570 & 590 worth the price premium over nforce 4? I haven't been following the chipsets in a while now.
Gilbo
Storage is cool
It's big advantage is 6 SATA ports & dual, onboard GbE. For most people neither are that important I don't think.
Personally, I think it's very handy. I need two GbE controllers per fileserver because of the way I segment my home network. And 6 SATA ports allows me to build better, inexpensive fileservers. Of course, I won't be needing any of this for some time, which doesn't mean I don't think about how much more convenient these would have been back in the day.
Personally, I think it's very handy. I need two GbE controllers per fileserver because of the way I segment my home network. And 6 SATA ports allows me to build better, inexpensive fileservers. Of course, I won't be needing any of this for some time, which doesn't mean I don't think about how much more convenient these would have been back in the day.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I think the big deal with the 590 chipset is Official nVidia support for overclocking when you use certain officially certified memory modules.
'Cause nVidia knows all about making things overheat. Glad they're finally doing something with that.
I'm giving some serious thought to replacing some socket 754-based machines with x2/3800s + nVidia 6100-based motherboards, but I want socket 939 chips, since I'm not too keen on replacing all my RAM.
'Cause nVidia knows all about making things overheat. Glad they're finally doing something with that.
I'm giving some serious thought to replacing some socket 754-based machines with x2/3800s + nVidia 6100-based motherboards, but I want socket 939 chips, since I'm not too keen on replacing all my RAM.