Phoenix Gold Phorum

anyone upgrading comp..... hold it till july 22 ...
intel price slash...quad 2.4 for 266 bucks ppl....

just upraded mine, went from single core Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0Ghz) to a dual core Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2Ghz).

Running smoothly at 30 degrees Celsius = 86 degrees Fahrenheit.

I almost bought the AMD dual core 64 6000+ 3.0 ghz for $280 but I decided to wait until AMD releases their quad core next year. Plus I had to buy a motor for my truck so I have no money now.

me too...probably upgrading end of year or first quater next year.
goin the C2 Quad route ....
i luv AMDs, but these C2s outperform AMD K8s anytime ...

ahh man..SOB i just upped mine too..

Just upgraded mine too, I'm not to hot on Intel so yes I tossed the options around and went AMD again.

From-

MSI K8n mini ATX
Nvidia DVI AGP card with 256mb memory
Creative Audigy Platinum dual 24bit DAC
1 GB 266 mhz RAM
80 GB WD hard drive
1800+ Athalon


To-

MSI K9 Diamond full ATX
ATi 800 PCi-E Dual head DVI with 512mb memory
Audigy HD onboard w/dual 24bit DAC
2 GB 800 mhz RAM
1 TB of Hitachi enterprise SATA II drives
Reformatted my old drives for a total of 1.33 TB
Dual Layer SATA II DVD burner
4400+ Athalon dual-core


I made certain to get the AM2 chipset this way when AMD releases their next bad-boy I can upgrade to it still if I feel the need.

VW337 wrote:Just upgraded mine too, I'm not to hot on Intel so yes I tossed the options around and went AMD again.

From-

MSI K8n mini ATX
Nvidia DVI AGP card with 256mb memory
Creative Audigy Platinum dual 24bit DAC
1 GB 266 mhz RAM
80 GB WD hard drive
1800+ Athalon


To-

MSI K9 Diamond full ATX
ATi 800 PCi-E Dual head DVI with 512mb memory
Audigy HD onboard w/dual 24bit DAC
2 GB 800 mhz RAM
1 TB of Hitachi enterprise SATA II drives
Reformatted my old drives for a total of 1.33 TB
Dual Layer SATA II DVD burner
4400+ Athalon dual-core


I made certain to get the AM2 chipset this way when AMD releases their next bad-boy I can upgrade to it still if I feel the need.

that's a massive upgrade allrite...and the K9 Diamonds are real diamonds no doubt.
I wanted to go AMD way , they've always been superior comparing a equivalent Intel , but it was the new C2D that got me hooked with Intel .
AM2 is good, supports ddr2 and their Quad K8 which is around the corner, will have variants that would support AM2 ...

Mine currently ,

Core 2 Duo 1.86 Mhz
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4
Cooler Master iGreen Power 600w ATX v2.2 , EPSv.2.91
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Add-on
2GB DDR2 667Mhz
HIS ATI X1950 Pro - PCI-Ex
320Gb SATA 2
DVD-DL IDE

waiting for that price slash on Quad-core... hehehe

I'd imagine AMDs price on their new Quad Cores will be very competitive with Intel's price....usually is.

AMD just did a massive price drop on their cpus you can buy the 6000+ for $195 cad now.

I'm still waiting to up my gammer PC, currently:

3.4 P4 dual core
Asus P5N32 SLI Deluxe Gamming board
8800 GTS video card
SB X-FI Fatality sound w/x-ram
3 gigs of DDR2 800
2 74gig Raptor drives stripped in Raid 1
SATA2 300GB for backup storage
Antec 650Watt PS
Viewsonic 21" widescreen LCD

is there anything to upgrade there ?:hmm:
Except for the P4 dual core - Pentium D
That should go ....replaced with a Quad.
wander the board supports Quad probably u would need to flash it with newer bios.

I won't upgrade again until I can afford an intel extreme proc, so it'll probably be a very long time.