I'm building a computer for a friend for cheap and this is what i got for the price.

Intel P-D 805 - $50
Asus P5WD2-Premium $40
Evga 6800xt 256mb $40
Nanya 1gb DDR533 $110 when i bought it long ago but now is worth nothing ;.;
Xclio 450w PSU 18.60
Case - Free
CD-burner - Free
Hard drive - Free


so dual core system for $258.60 shipped meto me here and the Ram was the only thing that really pushed it up so high

To get the motherboard that cheap though i did buy a broken one and RMAed it

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Taichan will an average user really notice that much difference using a duel core processer? I remember when they showed the difference between pentium and 486 and it was not reall that much faster untill you utilized the ability for more cache ram on the processor and more memory RAM. I have not always sceen a noticable difference when in ram type but amount has of ram has always seemed to make a significant change. Like going from 256 to 1 gig.

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Just my humble opinion!

Just in case anyone is wondering, Dual core is 2 CPUs built into one chip, meaning it can calculate 2 different things at the same time. Sadly it can't calculate one thing on both cores yet.

This is great for Multitasking or if you actually have programs that can support multipliable Threats, most video processing programs have this as well as a few other types. in the future this will be a lot more common.

And the biggest notice i've ever seen was my upgrade from a K6-2 500 with 256mb of ram anda Rage 128 videocard to a Athlon XP 2000+ 512mb of ram and a Radeon 8500 with 128mb of ram.

and the Intel 805 is actually the slowest Dual Core CPU i've ever owned. as i've had X2 3800+ Opteron 165 and Intel E6400.

but for $50 how can you go wrong, even more so when an Intel P4 640 costs about the same.

I also noticed you said "notice the difference" not "know the difference" till after i wrote that out and thought it was a bit of useless info people could have so i didn't delete it

~Tai

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I was not fully awake writing it was just a curiousity thing as I do not do much gaming just a lot of research and e-mail. You are correct the price is right.

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Just my humble opinion!

Yeah, the Pentium D 805 is probably the cheapest dual core cpu you can find. I saw Fry's had a mainboard/cpu combo for the 805 for about $80. Not to mention the 805 can be overclocked like crazy.
Taichan, you forgot to add OS price ^_*.

i could get a legal XP Pro key for 75 if needed but i was planning on going with linux or possibly installing Mac OS X on it...

how ever doing the Mac OSX install isn't the most legal of linstalls...


and y afor overclocking its up to 3.8ghz, super Pi is about 37seconds.

my E6400 @ 3.2ghz is 17seconds

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Do you know Linux ?
Linux need not a high spec h/w. Linux can operate on 486 system.
I'm operating Linux Pedora core 3 for my FTP server and personal firewall.
Linux O/S is not client O/S like Windows.

I don't like linux, it doesn't play games very well. its not simple to use/install, some hardware isn't supported,, and it can't do DVD authoring,

Gaming and DVD authoring are the 2 things i do most besides just standard web surfing.

Do you know you can install Mac OSX on any system that has SSE2 or higher?

thats any AMD cpu which is socket 754 or newer.

or any intel P4 or newer

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Hi ! My sister Taichan !
Linux is not developed for some game. Linux O/S is developed for some Sever like Sun's Solaris Unix system or HP UX.
And I don't know well about Mac.

Depends on the linux, there are some designed for home servers and they can be forced into gaming but its just not worth it.
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My Network attached servers which just put hard drives on the network are Linux but all they can really do is put hard drives on the network as run a USB print server

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