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Sora · 05-05-2007, 01:11 PM

I would purchase an Athlon X2 on that budget as they are very very cheap and plenty fast enough for most tasks. The X2 3600 is 65 bucks and can be overclocked to stock E6400 speeds if not faster if you wanted even. Trust me here..get an X2 3600 and a cheap 7600GT or something.

05-05-2007, 01:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
Sora Renowned Budgeting Master Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Uniontown, PA Posts: 4,120	Re: Suggestions for a Conroe Build I would purchase an Athlon X2 on that budget as they are very very cheap and plenty fast enough for most tasks. The X2 3600 is 65 bucks and can be overclocked to stock E6400 speeds if not faster if you wanted even. Trust me here..get an X2 3600 and a cheap 7600GT or something. __________________ E6300 w/ Arctic Freezer Pro 7 @ 3.6ghz 1.4Vcore Antec 900 Case EVGA 750i FTW Mobo 2x1GB of DDR2-533 D9GMH Team Xtreme 4-4-4-12 @ 1030mhz 2.2v Gigabyte 8800GT 720/1800/1050 (eventually will SLI when they go down in price) Hanns G 19" Wide 5MS LCD 1 250GB WD and 1 Seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0 Corsair 520HX 3DMark06 Score: 13900