Recommended Internal Peripherals (Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe)

[kuphryn]

Greetings,

Finally the last piece of a high-performance workstation (Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe). Here are the discussions on CPU and graphics card:

// CPU
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192351&highlight=kuphryn

// Graphics Cards
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192645&highlight=kuphryn

Essential questions about Internal Peripherals

* Power Supply

Preferred power supply (500W or more) for high-performance CPU? Many brands and products (450W -> 1000W). Which ones are accurate and reliable?

* CPU Fan

Thermaltake
Zalman

* New motherboards include on-board sound card, network card, etc.

Music and network connection are extremely important. What is the performance difference between on-board (internal) and stand-alone (independent) peripherals? Better to select stand-on sound card and network card to improve motherboard efficiency? Are on-board peripherals reliable?

Kuphryn

[BipolarBill]

In these days of super-CPUs, there in no significant difference in performance between onboard and PCI devices. You may get better features with add-ins, but the performance will be essentially the same.

[mobo57]

What mobo are you going to get? I set up my Duo 2 E6300 last week. First got the Intel D975xbx. No over clocking available. Returned it for the Asus P5W DH Deluxe, 299$, $210 for the processor and $160 for 2 gigs of 800 speed memory.
Over clocked using the auto overclock feature of the mobo to 30%, right at 2.4 gig. Been running 3Dmark 06 for the last 48 hours. Temps holding at 44c.
Great mobo/proc combo.
I rank the E6300 and 6400 right up there with the 2500 Barton and the X2 3800 as the best processors for the money if you want to overclock.