Building a new system October 20, 2007 at 3:56 pm
So I finally got around to building me a new box, the old one was a little dusty and not as fast and spiffy as I wanted so I decided to upgrade. I started my search looking for a new mother board and processor, memory is easy as I know I want at least 2gb.
So I started my search for the processor first and after checking out a few sites I stumbled upon a great resource for Processor reviews not only was there a huge list of todays current processors there was a mountain of reviews for each processor. This was a tremendous help because I could tell from the reviews which processors had more issues than others. So after cruising around for a bit I settled on a AMD ATHLON64 5000+ X2 Box AM2.
So Now I began searching for the motherboard and low and behold they have a great section for motherboard reviews too. I am still a little on the fence on which motherboard to buy though, here is what I was thinking:
MB MSI K9NBPM2-FID NVS 210S AM2 Motherboard
or the:
BIOSTAR TF7050-M2 nVIDIA GeFORCE 7050PV CHIPSET MICRO ATX FORM FACTOR 1xPCI-E(X16)/1xPCI-E(X1)/2xPCI
Kinda wanting to go with the Micro ATX factor and do a small case great for Lan Parties…What do you guys think?
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