Hi guys i don't know if anybody did this yet, but i was desperate for a new core2duo setup but of course like most people the budget is always tight.
But amazingly with a bit of googling i built a core2 for under R2500.
I hear you asking how that is possible?
Fortunately i have always owned Intels (not a fan boy but that is how it just worked out). So i bought myself an E6300 proccy for R1991 and an Asus p5pe-vm motherboard for R450 used my old ddr400 and 6600Gt and i have a core2duo system up and running which gives me time to save up for a better board,ram and Gpu. Even you AMD converts can see with minimum cash the beauty of Core 2.
Building a core2duo on a tight budget
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Re: Building a core2duo on a tight budget
With all those bottles necks it will still perform like crap even with the nice CPU.Citi-surfer wrote:Hi guys i don't know if anybody did this yet, but i was desperate for a new core2duo setup but of course like most people the budget is always tight.
But amazingly with a bit of googling i built a core2 for under R2500.
I hear you asking how that is possible?
Fortunately i have always owned Intels (not a fan boy but that is how it just worked out). So i bought myself an E6300 proccy for R1991 and an Asus p5pe-vm motherboard for R450 used my old ddr400 and 6600Gt and i have a core2duo system up and running which gives me time to save up for a better board,ram and Gpu. Even you AMD converts can see with minimum cash the beauty of Core 2.
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Re: Building a core2duo on a tight budget
Where you get that CPU from? Its on offer at Sybaritic for R1853Citi-surfer wrote:Hi guys i don't know if anybody did this yet, but i was desperate for a new core2duo setup but of course like most people the budget is always tight.
But amazingly with a bit of googling i built a core2 for under R2500.
I hear you asking how that is possible?
Fortunately i have always owned Intels (not a fan boy but that is how it just worked out). So i bought myself an E6300 proccy for R1991 and an Asus p5pe-vm motherboard for R450 used my old ddr400 and 6600Gt and i have a core2duo system up and running which gives me time to save up for a better board,ram and Gpu. Even you AMD converts can see with minimum cash the beauty of Core 2.
Re: Building a core2duo on a tight budget
What bottlenecks? Motherboards make very little difference to the overall speed of a pc, at most a few percent. Some mobo's overclock better than others, but that's a different kettle of fish...mmm....fish. And DDR2 isn't much faster than DDR1. The only thing that may be considered slow is the gfx card, but hey, it's faster than mine. More than enough for q3a - the only game worth playing.wizardofid wrote:With all those bottles necks it will still perform like crap even with the nice CPU.
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Re: Building a core2duo on a tight budget
Who said motherboard?Bobendren wrote:What bottlenecks? Motherboards make very little difference to the overall speed of a pc, at most a few percent. Some mobo's overclock better than others, but that's a different kettle of fish...mmm....fish. And DDR2 isn't much faster than DDR1. The only thing that may be considered slow is the gfx card, but hey, it's faster than mine. More than enough for q3a - the only game worth playing.wizardofid wrote:With all those bottles necks it will still perform like crap even with the nice CPU.
I disagree the chipset is the third most important next to the CPU and GFX.The memory controller can make or break a intel system.very little difference
DDR1 is faster than DDR2 in pratice only when it comes to low end ram.....
The chipset is very important for memory performance but the 865P chipset on his board has quite good performance. The bottleneck will be the NB to SB connection which has a max throughput of 266MB/s, AFAIK. This bandwidth needs to be shared between the PCI bus, SATA and gigabit ethernet which can easily saturate it. It is still a very nice upgrade from a 3.2Ghz P4.
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Re: Building a core2duo on a tight budget
I'm sure many people can build a PC for R2500 if they had half the parts lying around there house.Citi-surfer wrote:Hi guys i don't know if anybody did this yet, but i was desperate for a new core2duo setup but of course like most people the budget is always tight.
But amazingly with a bit of googling i built a core2 for under R2500.
I hear you asking how that is possible?
Fortunately i have always owned Intels (not a fan boy but that is how it just worked out). So i bought myself an E6300 proccy for R1991 and an Asus p5pe-vm motherboard for R450 used my old ddr400 and 6600Gt and i have a core2duo system up and running which gives me time to save up for a better board,ram and Gpu. Even you AMD converts can see with minimum cash the beauty of Core 2.
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