Need advice!

[GreasedNeut]

Im going to get a new pc soon, and I can't really decide if I should go for the

Athlon 64 FX-53 or Athlon 64 3400+

which do you think I should go for, heres the rest of my specs

FOR FX53
Athlon 64 FX-53 (of course)
1GB DDR400 Kingston Hyper X
Gigabyte X800XTPE
160GB Serial ATA HDD
Antec P160 w/ 550 Watt True Power supply
Asus A8V Motherboard
XP PRO

or
'
3400+ w/ different mobo, same everthing else

Is there a noticable difference between the two, if so how much?

 

[Asus]

Here and here is the performance difference with about $400 difference in price.

 

[GreasedNeut]

http://secure.newegg.com/app/shoppingcart.asp?DEPA=0&submit=ADD&item=11-999-114

so how does that look? don't mind the psu or case, I already have those, I'm giving my old case to my mom, along w/ that psu.

Does everything look ok?

 

[ShinRa]

ur deciding between two really big price gaps. if u have the money, i whole heartily recommend the fx-53...as it is the sweetest rig ive ever been on.

 

[Asus]

I cannot view your list.
You should 'save cart to wish list' and publish the wish list. Then you can link it.

 

[GreasedNeut]

ur deciding between two really big price gaps. if u have the money, i whole heartily recommend the fx-53...as it is the sweetest rig ive ever been on.

I thought u said u couldnt notice a difference between the fx53 and a p4 3ghz?

 

[GreasedNeut]

NEC 8X Black DVD+RW/-RW Drive, Model ND-2500A, OEM Bulk
Item# N82E16827152012

Seagate 200GB 7200RPM Barracuda 7200.7 SATA Hard Drive, Model ST3200822AS, OEM Drive Only
Item# N82E16822148033

Logitech Elite Keyboard USB/ PS/2 104keys -RETAIL
Item# N82E16823126114

CORSAIR XMS Xtreme Memory Speed Series, Xtra-Low Latency 184-Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200, Model TWINX1024-3200XLPRO - Retail
Item# N82E16820145524

MSI nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 CPU, Model "K8N Neo Platinum" (MS-7030) -RETAIL
Item# N82E16813130457

Logitech Blue Performance Optical Mouse PS2/ USB, Model "MX510" -RETAIL
Item# N82E16826104151

ZALMAN Noise-free 400W(PFC, ver 1.3)/ ATX12V power supply Supporting Intel P4 & AMD CPUs, Model "ZM400B-APS"
Item# N82E16817103213

AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1MB L2 Cache, 64-bit Processor for DTR Notebooks - OEM

Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack SP1a - OEM
Item# N82E16837102143

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS PCI Sound Card, Model "SB0350" -RETAIL

 

[Asus]

Looks good.

 

[GreasedNeut]

Also, since I'm getting the mobile chip, does it have a heatspreader, I'm a bit nervous puting it on if theres no heatspreader

Ive made 1 rig already just never an AMD one.

 

[Asus]

Does MSI's bios even support/recognize moble chips? Link
Didin't notice it was a DTR chip.

Does this motherboard support the mobile amd64 cpu ?

A. Official answer is yes, however there are currently some quirks:
Max. vcore in bios seems to be 0.9v (1.25 with clockgen, see overclocking section for link)
Keep in mind that you might need some workaround if you wish to mount a heatsink on this cpu.
Multiplier above 6,5(clockgen) seems to result in system-shutdown, may be related to the "temperature reported wrong" problem ?

 

[GreasedNeut]

rgr, I'll go w/ the non mobile chip instead then

 

[ShinRa]

At first i couldnt, but when i really started to test the rig with some crazy shit i noticed how fast it is. I mean for christs sake i run counter-strike and far cry at the same time. i alt tab out of cs between rounds to play far cry lol its great. plus aim and kazaa and all that all at once without losing any performance.