I need an opinion on hardware mainly Processor and mobo.

He is my situation.3 Monts ago I bought AMDX2 4600+ and Asus Crosshair mobo.And I am not realy happy with the performance so I want to upgrade.Since the barcelona is coming out soon I was thinking of just upgrading it.
But the price might be expensive so I was thinkin better I go for Intel e6600 and change my mobo to a p35 chipset cuz what I have read in near future amd will change its socket to AM2+ for phenom procs and I still cant upgrade anymore but Intel still supports 775 even with the new 45 nanometer proc with the p35.So I don't know if I should just upgrade to barcelona or change to intel setup.
Its so hard to keep up with the technology nowdays ..

I have an old socket 478 motherboard and I checked it's specs it's supports up to prescott processors.Currently I'm on willamette,but can I fit a socket 478 northwood processor into my motherboard?

should be no problem at all
since u said the specs mentioned supported processor of up to prescott
northwood is in between williamette and prescott
quoted from wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel...microprocessors

This post has been edited by alwizbthere: Jul 5 2007, 04:53 PM

yup,if ur mobo can suppoprt prescott then it has no problem support northwood,some of the mobo cant support Prescott cause of the the at least 1 mb cache.

guys...noob question...i'm buying TR SI120 ... so i wanna but 12mm fan for it .. the fan i looking for should have the connector same as original HSF aaa?? it's PMW fan aa?? not normal casing fan rite??

normal fan will do. the connector is not important.. anyway, its now PMW, but PWM fan

some fans when you buy they give you the smaller connector BUT they also add an additional wire for you to convert it to fit the molex.

what the diff between single sided and double sided in term of performance?

ehh. lesser CHIP on it. not lesser memory.

but nowadays 1gb ram mostly double sided one,am i right?

Hmm, single sided more cheap compare to double sided

for those who need a graphic card comparison...
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

and for CPU...
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html

then why high-performance ram like 1 gb kit is double sided?

erm..for notebook izit AMD turion cd X2 1.60Ghz and 1.80Ghz..izit 1.80 will faster alot?

High performance RAM is different, they were hand picked, and have some strict performance requirement to pass on each RAM chips (timings, speed etc). That's why normally they faster and more expensive

Mostly no, I would opted for more RAM than faster CPU speed

This post has been edited by Najmods: Jul 7 2007, 12:54 AM

note he said usually, not ALWAYS. performance rams have better chips.

where to connect the fan cable for coolermaster geminII? and if i dun have the fan cable can i use one of the psu connectors to power it??

up to u to power it up from the motherboard or direct from power suppy

ya but i cant seem to find a connector on the gemini..theres no "hole" to connect anything..how?