ok im getting a new system... its going to be a
dfi lan party ultra,
amd 939 3000,
acer 7600,
giel 1 gig of pc4000
WD 80 gigger
home edition...

Will this be enuff to play cs and watch movies clearly with out lagg

thanks alot...
steveyblack

Should be fine, I don't think I have heard of an Acer 7600..are you getting this from Tiger Direct or something?

The 3000+ should be good for 2.4~2.6GHZ with basic air cooling, but a 3200+ would be a better choice and its only a few bucks more and has a higher multiplier (10x) and is much easier to OC.

With the 3000+ you are stuck with 9x, and you RAM will do 250FSB (Maybe more with tweaking, but just for arguments sake)

9x250=2250MHZ
10x250=2.5GHZ

In order to reach 2.5GHZ on a 3000+ you will need a FSB of 278! This means you will have to run a memory divider (Wich isn't all that bad) and do quite a bit more tweeking.

Even better would be a 3500+ with the 11x multiplier, and with the recent pricecuts from AMD, they are prety damn cheap, so you might as well take advantage of it!

11x250=2750MHZ potential without using a memory divider

Although any one of these is capable of 2.4~2.8GHZ, the 3500+ would be the easiest to set up and require the least amount of voltage (In general, not to mention you don't have to spin the crap out of the board!)

http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/

$105	-	athlon 64 3500
$105	-	athlon 64 3500 939pin
$105	-	athlon 64 3500 90nm 939pin
$105	-	athlon 64 3500 512k 90nm rev e
$99	-	athlon 64 3400
$97	-	athlon 64 3200
$105	-	athlon 64 3200 am2
$99	-	athlon 64 3200 939pin
$108	-	athlon 64 3200 90nm 939pin
$100	-	athlon 64 3200 512k 90nm rev e
$93	-	athlon 64 3000
$94	-	athlon 64 3000 am2
$93	-	athlon 64 3000 939pin
$100	-	athlon 64 3000 90nm 939pin
$94	-	athlon 64 3000 512k 90nm rev e

I like New Egg and Monarch BTW...