Paul Watt said:
Hi,
I want to upgrade my aging athlon xp 2100 system. I want to stay
with amd. What would be the best route to go? I'm thinking socket
939. what do you guys think?
The following if you want a high-end single-core socket 939 system.
Grab this Opteron 152 CPU OSA152BNBOX from ZipZoomfly.
It might not be worth over $400 like it's selling for almost
everywhere else including Newegg, but apparently it's a good deal at
under $200. It began selling at ZipZoomFly for less than $400 only
one week ago. Yesterday it was out of stock there. It comes in a
factory sealed box with a stock heat pipe heatsink/fan.
I recently did a whole lot of hard shopping
to come up with
this combination.
OSA152BNBOX, CPU, ZipZoomFly
A8N5X, mainboard, ZipZoomFly or Newegg
TPII380, power supply, Newegg
I'm impressed with the mainboard BIOS functions, looks like some
good stuff in there. I especially like the CPU fan speed controller.
You can set the maximum CPU fan speed to match the maximum CPU
temperature. In other words, for example you can set the fan speed
to increase and then max out as the CPU temperature approaches and
then reaches 60°C.
Notice that Intel's new CPUs might drive down the prices of AMD's.
So even though that appears to be a very good deal today, as always
it might not look like a very good deal tomorrow.
Good luck and have fun.
