im looking at building a knew comp and i was wondering witch socket would be the best for my prossesor im looking for AMD 370 a 478 603 604 940 939 754 7 lga775 i have a very tite buget and im looking for somthing that is at least 1.8ghz
If you're looking for a 1.8GHz clock speed and don't want something that will go out of date anytime soon, a tight budget won' really work but I'd suggest Socket 754, an Athlon 64-bit processor. If you just want 1.8GHz clock speed and money is an issue right not but upgrading in a year or two won't be, I'd suggest checking out a Socket A motherboard with an Athlon XP 2500+ Barton. They're fairly inexpensive, clock in at a little over 1.8GHz, and are really good chips from what I understand. You can also get a good motheboard (ASUS A7N8X I think is a good one that people usually recommend) for fairly inexpensive. Just my 2 cents.
Abit NF7-S ($100) Barton 2500+ ($85) Radeon 9600 XT ($130) 512 megs of generic RAM ($70) and you have a little beast of a system for only $385 EDIT: If thats too much, you can axe the video card down to an ATI Radeon 9200($100) or get a Sempron (about $60) which would save you fifty. However I reccomend that you stick with the above system as much as you can, and at least go with a $400 system; otherwise its just a waste.
Plus cd drives, hard drives, speakers, monitor, keyboard, mouse, heatsink, PSU, cooling....lots of factors still in there that need to be considered if you're building a computer from the ground up, not just the mobo/cpu/video card.
But Case+Keyboard+Mouse=$100 Thats for most decent cases and a soild keyboard and mouse. Monitor, nice flat screen 17" run about $100-120 so yeah. (flat screen not flat panel lcd)
i didnt know half of those werent amd. i think im going with socket a that is what i originaly wanted
Another vote for an NF7-S, 2500+ Barton combo... for a tight budget. You're almost guaranteed to get the chip to 200mhz FSB/2.2GHz with nothing special. Still the best performance/$ combo IMHO. This is what I have and havent come across any game that it doesn't handle flawlessly... but I don't have Doom III yet.
