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Ok, as it gets closer to Christmas, this plan will most likely change. We will try to get 512MB or 1GB of DDR400 before Christmas. For Christmas, we plan to get AMDBoy his case (Antec's Super Lanboy), PSU (Antec's 480W NeoPower), motherboard (nForce 4 + SLI "2 x16 PCIe + SATA), CPU (Athlon 64 3500), heatsink (Thermaltake's Fanless103), video card (6600 GT if that is the cheapest SLI board), floppy drive, and speakers (Altec Lansing 251). I will give him my DVD-ROM drive and 40GB hard drive. We already have a CRT for him along with a mouse and keyboard.

As for me, if I have the money, I will upgrade my system to K8 also. I will get a case (Antec's Super Lanboy), PSU (Antec's 480W NeoPower), motherboard (nForce 4 + SLI "2 x16 PCIe + SATA), CPU (Athlon 64 3500), heatsink (Thermaltake's Fanless103), video card (6600 GT if that is the cheapest SLI board). I will keep my RAM, DVD Burner, monitor, speakers, mouse, and keyboard. As for a hard drive, I will get a large ATA drive. For next year, I plan to get a 6600 GT. That way I will have a super powerful system along with AMDBoy.

Remember, this can change.

I can't wait to see the 3DMark04 scores on those babies!

I'm considering doubling my ram (from 512 to 1 GB) and getting a floppy drive. In long term, I could end up getting some sort of cooling system and overclocking to 4 Ghz or so.

I am considering the following:
Corsair XMS 1 Gig PC3200 Memory
nVidia Geforce 6800 GT

Smartweb wrote:I'm considering doubling my ram (from 512 to 1 GB) and getting a floppy drive. In long term, I could end up getting some sort of cooling system and overclocking to 4 Ghz or so.

I don't think the 2.4C can reach 4.0GHz. You would need a 3.0E for that.

Those 2.4C's go pretty high.

They can only go to 3.2GHz and maybe 3.4GHz.

Na, with good cooling it'll go much higher.

Cooling does not effect how high a CPU can overclock.

Cooling prevents it from being to hot at higher speeds allowing you to oc faster. I'm not going to post in this thread anymore.

You can't OC any more not because you can't cool your CPU any more. It is because your CPU can't support the voltage. The higher voltage needed for higher GHz creates an unstable magnetic field that wipes out the circuits on your CPU.

Part 2: Update

We now plan to get all of the parts before Christmas. AMDBoy will have the following:

Cooler Master Centurion 2 Case
Antec True430 Power Supply
Shuttle AN35N-Ultra Motherboard
AMD Sempron 2400 CPU
Viking 512MB PC3200 DDR (CAS 2.5)
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache EIDE Hard Drive
NEC Floppy Drive
Logitech Elite Keyboard

We already have a video card (nVidia TNT AGP), DVD-ROM drive (Lite-On 16X), CRT (17" Proview), speakers (old 1995 NEC system speakers), and mouse (Logitech optical mouse).

We plan to get a nVidia 6th generation card for Christmas along with Altec Lansing 251 Speakers.