OK building new rig for myself thought I would give AMD a try here is what I got

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard
Amd x 2 3800 - Zalmans 9700 Heatsink
4x 512MB Corsair Extreme DDR PC3200 Twinx 2 512mb
EVGA e-GeForce 8600GT Superclocked 256MB
Lg Dvd Burner
2 x WD 500 gig
Thermaltake Armor Jr Case
Kingwin ABT-520MA1W MACH 1 Modular Power Supply 520W

Looking forward to putting togeather and seeing what kind of overclock i can get from it

Stepping on Cpu is
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Any help in changing anything like ram let me know as I would like system to be able to get half decent overclock on it thanks guys

AMD really isn't where the performance is these days. That graphics card is a poor choice as well. Have you bought all the parts already or is that a shopping list?

Go for AM2, 939 is Old Hat.

Quote: ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard Amd x 2 3800 - Zalmans 9700 Heatsink 4x 512MB Corsair Extreme DDR PC3200 Twinx 2 512mb EVGA e-GeForce 8600GT Superclocked 256MB Lg Dvd Burner 2 x WD 500 gig Thermaltake Armor Jr Case Kingwin ABT-520MA1W MACH 1 Modular Power Supply 520W

As far as vid card what is the problem with it

and the board and memory i got in a good deal 145.00

cpu and heatsink got it for 85.00 bucks


cant really afford Intel at the moment so i figured going this way

You guys Crack me up This is his first Build not his Last........

Quote: Originally Posted by reflux AMD really isn't where the performance is these days. That graphics card is a poor choice as well. Have you bought all the parts already or is that a shopping list?

Ok so you say the video is bad choice but you dont give any reason care to explain
and as far as the AMD x2 3800 it was a good chip in its day also rather give somthing old a try at overclocking as have never done it before to get the hang of it

Also quick question when i got the motherboard the retention bracket was not on it the bottom piece was but not the top piece now i have a dead dfi board with the bracket on it i took it off that board do you think it will work or should i wait for the one from Asus that i have ben waiting for for a week and a half

Quote: Originally Posted by fyshawk Ok so you say the video is bad choice but you dont give any reason care to explain

It only has a 128-bit memory bus and 36 stream processors. Hence it gets destroyed in most modern games. For another $60 you could have had a Radeon HD3850 which is twice as fast.

But meh, it depends what you like playing and how much you game. Should be fine for a bit of World of Warcraft if that's your thing.

Thankyou for explaining your situation more - if it's a first shot at overclocking you're better off using an older, cheaper chip incase you fry anything. There's a wealth of A64 overclocking knowledge here so just ask if you need it.

Well I got it done here is a couple of pics of rig I am going to do a bit more reading on overclocking before i do it but in the meantime here is what she looks like


going to turn hd around just got cords to do so today but there you go I think it looks good

Pretty nice for a first build
Better than my first try
In my opinion, it would look a tad bit nicer if you could put the CC behind that bar and out of sight. But thats just my opinion.
It wouldnt hurt to throw some paint on the chasis... except maybe your warranty
I was impressed by your tidy wires. Props to ya

It isnt my very first build I have built a few others if you look in my albums on here I have a couple I have done some not so tidy LOL

Oh my bad, its your first AMD build. Nice job anyways

What sort of temps should I be looking at with this setup idle and such right now idle temps are 34c to 35c thats with heatsink at full tilt with it turned down 37c to 38c would they be normal for a AMD system With the 9700 full tilt it is a litttle loud and thats why I am thiking of changing it to something else 78.00 dollars I paid for noise LOL

Alos should I have the quiet and cool enabled in my bios just wondering if that makes any difference

Quote: Originally Posted by reflux AMD really isn't where the performance is these days. That graphics card is a poor choice as well. Have you bought all the parts already or is that a shopping list?

A 4200+ X2 for $63 is an amazing deal to me :/

Once again, I tried and E6400, and it wasn't faster than my Opty 148. I still don't understand this whole dual core thingy

Quote: Originally Posted by Wafflesomd Once again, I tried and E6400, and it wasn't faster than my Opty 148. I still don't understand this whole dual core thingy

You seriously did something wrong.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zaltan You seriously did something wrong.

I guess. The E6400 even had a gig more ram than my Opty.

It gave me better benchmark scores, but no real-time performance gains.

Quote: Originally Posted by fyshawk What sort of temps should I be looking at with this setup idle and such right now idle temps are 34c to 35c thats with heatsink at full tilt with it turned down 37c to 38c would they be normal for a AMD system With the 9700 full tilt it is a litttle loud and thats why I am thiking of changing it to something else 78.00 dollars I paid for noise LOL Alos should I have the quiet and cool enabled in my bios just wondering if that makes any difference

Was wondering what intel has to do with my questions quoted above thanks guys

A little bit of a update had to swap out the heatsink I had on cpu Zalman CNPS-9700LED For Socket AMD AM2/939/754 & Intel LGA775

because it was faulty it was a and instal this one Zalman CNPS-9700NT For Socket AMD AM2/939/754 & Intel LGA775 the only real difference is this one is green but hey this one works and keeps temps down nice and low