Ide prefer a ASUS P5N32-E SLi board over the EVGA one, and a set of Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400(C4) over the patriot RAM.
As for ZeroTime's comment, an E6600 will take down a 5000+ X2 with ease, and a FX60 overclocked. Remind youself, K8 > Netburst / K8 < Core 2 / K10 < Core 2
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Cameron
Well yes a Core2 will own a Socket 939, its an older tech. Like ZeroTime said though it beats the cpu in synthetic benchmarks but in real world performance there really is not such a huge gap. I love having great performance but a cpu that can max any game I play for say 150$ or a cpu that can max anygame I play for 250$ that is better but is kind of unneeded.
Also you have no idea how K10 will perform, AMD is staying pretty quiet over it besides some psuedo benchmarks etc for the most part. We don't know if it's because they are hurting or it is a marketing move. The debate is not wether K10 will beat Core2 im almost sure it will it's if it can combat the Penryn. AMD has made a superior fab going for these k10 cpus it seems thier only problem is they can not get the clocks they were hoping for(but they had parties over good yeilds). I guess it's to be expected though as such a large cyhange always brings it's problems. It's all very funny/fishy. My whole point is don't state something as fact when no one outside of the AMD house has ever been able to use the cpu, therefore no one knows what it's going to do.
Back OT, I say wait a few months for the new fabs to come, Intel has the Penryn etc comming and AMD is kicking off their k10 lineup. You will kick yourself some more if you buy now and have the latest tech for a good 3 months.
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