Talk me out of buying this motherboard!!!
For over a year, I've been feeling compelled to get an Asus A7M266-D motherboard from eBay (Dual Athlon CPU board) and build it into another computer system. I already have a pair of Athlon MP1600 processors. Then comes 1-2 GB of registered ecc ddr ram, case, power supply, etc.
These A7M266-D motherboards always sell for at least $100 and usually more despite being about 3-4 years old already. And from the reviews I've read, they (and the few other dual Athlon motherboards out there) can't even overclock very much.
I know I can get better single CPU motherboards cheaper, but they're mostly 64 bit, and I'm not paying huge prices for 64 bit CPUs now. I'll wait a couple years until they get cheaper.
I used to have a BP6 with dual 533 Celerons @ 600 but I sold it, and then I had a VP6 with twin P3 1000's and sold it too.
If I get ANY 64 bit setup, I'd probably look at dual CPU setups there also.
And from what I read, there's not much that dual CPU systems can do better than a single CPU setup. I wonder how that applies to digital video encoding in Windows Movie Maker.
So you'd think it'd be easy to convince myself not to get one of these, right? Wrong.
These A7M266-D motherboards always sell for at least $100 and usually more despite being about 3-4 years old already. And from the reviews I've read, they (and the few other dual Athlon motherboards out there) can't even overclock very much.
I know I can get better single CPU motherboards cheaper, but they're mostly 64 bit, and I'm not paying huge prices for 64 bit CPUs now. I'll wait a couple years until they get cheaper.
I used to have a BP6 with dual 533 Celerons @ 600 but I sold it, and then I had a VP6 with twin P3 1000's and sold it too.
If I get ANY 64 bit setup, I'd probably look at dual CPU setups there also.
And from what I read, there's not much that dual CPU systems can do better than a single CPU setup. I wonder how that applies to digital video encoding in Windows Movie Maker.
So you'd think it'd be easy to convince myself not to get one of these, right? Wrong.
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Even the Intel Pentium D 805 will outperform that system (its less than $150 for the CPU-- canadian dollars I'm talking here too!).. Plus you wont need to worry about registered ram. The board will likely be much less too and will have a more modern set of features. ASUS makes some LGA775 boards at less than $100. (hard to believe I'm recommending intel systems..
just my two cents
//EDIT: didn't notice Leo already recommended the 805
And when Conroe hits in Q4 AMD dual cores will get a lot cheaper.....
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