300 budger, upgrading CPU and mobo

[razorseal 0]

I recently saw a FX55 processor (max my current mobo can take actually) at newegg for 200 bux... its unfortunetly gone now and the cheapest one I can find is over 600 bux (unless I go on ebay which I dont want to use, then the wifey can find out lol)so I was wondering about a cpu/mobo upgrade... I'm thinking about a dual core amd x2 4600 with a SLI mobo... I found few that is roughly 300 bux...or I can go for a intel e6300 core 2 duo for roughly the same price...anyone have reccomendations?I currently have amd 3800+ with 3 gigs of ram and 6800gt gfx card with water cooling... I would love to just upgrade to a fx55 if I could find one for cheap, but i'm not having any luck so :( FX55 should be plenty for fs9thx!

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i'd also like to add I like OCing things when possible and like pushing things to their 'stable' limits... with water cooling things work pretty well :)

[Guest baksteen33]

Hi Emir, you've got DDR1 RAM, right? I also guess going DDR2 won't fit the budget. A cheap s775 board which supports DDR1&2 RAM is made by Asrock (Vista something). Maybe the bios has improved? A while back, I wouldn't necessarily have called it a stable, steady and suitable FS-platform. Otherwise and as far as I would dare to judge, the 4600 eats FS9 for breakfast! :-) I'm fairly surprised how much FS9 likes dual-cores. Upon a FS-reboot for example, it loads within a handful of seconds. Hope this adds to thoughts, kind regards Jaap

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I'm not sure which DDR ram I have honestly, I can't remember.... the bios for my mobo has improved, but its a emachines so the bios might be locked and lsat thing I want to do is kill the mobo with an invalid bios update..so you say the AMD X2 4600 is good for fs9?

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Personally I'd go for Core2Duo as Intel cpus are beating AMD now but you will need a new mobo and probably DDR2 memory, was it AM2 or S939 processor you were considering because the S939 has been replaced by AM2....???CheersMike