Advice needed

I'm looking for some advice on a new system. Something that will give
me a good bang for the buck when overclocking.

My previous systems have been Intel 300A@504 on BH6 (still runs 24/7 as
router fileserver), and an amd 2500+ running 3200+ on an ASUS A7N8X
deluxe 2.0.

I wasn't planning on upgrading yet, but the motherboard died due to a
faulty psu, so i need a new system quick. I fear 1 day is not going to
be enough to get uptodate on all the hardware, since i haven't been
following developments since my last system purchase.

So what would today be considered the stuff to get if you want cheap
performance? A good high quality board that will allow me to take a
cheap cpu to the max it can do, and leaving room for upgrades if that
should be needed in the future.

Also I don't care if it's intel or amd, no real preference.

Thank you for any tips given, in the meantime i'll be browsing for
sollutions myself.

Greetings

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:21:55 +0200, kamisama wrote:

I'm looking for some advice on a new system. Something that will give
me a good bang for the buck when overclocking.

AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3800+ would probably be best bang for the buck, or
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 if you want Intel.

AS for a MB for the AMD, I chose the Gigabyte M55Plus-S3G. I needed 4 PCI
slots, but this board also has firewire, 2 1x and 1 16x PCIe slots, and
the onboard video works fine for me using MythTV for HDTV. I couldn't find
an Intel board that even met my needs.

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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:21:55 +0200, kamisama wrote:


I'm looking for some advice on a new system. Something that will give
me a good bang for the buck when overclocking.


AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3800+ would probably be best bang for the buck, or
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 if you want Intel.

AS for a MB for the AMD, I chose the Gigabyte M55Plus-S3G. I needed 4 PCI
slots, but this board also has firewire, 2 1x and 1 16x PCIe slots, and
the onboard video works fine for me using MythTV for HDTV. I couldn't find
an Intel board that even met my needs.


Processor power is dropping in price. If you can hold off for a few
weeks, Intel Conroe processors will likely drop in price again. A Core
2 Duo processor for under $200 will provide some serious power and be
very capable of being a long-term solution.

Another reason to wait a little bit is to let the Intel MB chipset
mature a little.