Should I get a e7200 with a 60 dollar motherboard or a Amd 5400+BE with an 80 motherboard. With the AMD i would overclock it and the Intel will probably stay at stock or small overclock. or is there another possibility for the same price?

Unless you have a preference fo rone vendor or another and to keept eh flames down, I'd say toss a coin. Either way you'll get a capable system.

I voted for the x2 5400+ because you can get a really nice mobo like one of these ...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] =2&bop=And

An OC'd 5400+ would likely beat an Non-OC'd E7200.

But why you would not want to OC a Chip that can hit 4.0Ghz Fairly easily from 2.5Ghz boggles my mind..............

That's exactly what I was thinking.

of course get the AMD.

Easy overclock. You will probably reach 3.1-3.3 GHz if using aftermarket cooling. Get the 780G motherboard so you can get the SB700 southbridge so later if you decide to swap to phenom to be able to overclock more.

Intel CPU with $60 motherboard will be just extremely inappropriate.

e7200 in my opinion would be better. lower temps and much more headroom for overclock. Both cpus are good at there respected prices.
Good luck.
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he won;t be able to OC the e7200 with a cheap motherboard, it won't let him

maybe if you can get a p43? i wouldn;t know if that is a good OC'ing motherboard

Get the Intel and a cheap P35 board. You should easily get it up to 3.2GHz even on a cheap board, and likely significantly higher.

the reason why i wont be able to OC the e7200 is because i don't have the money to get a expensive motherboard and a high end aftermarket heat sink.however in the future i might get a better aftermarket heat sink and then try OCing it .

Go for the e7200. No need for more performance at the moment, in the future get the new heatsink and overclock, it's a fair bit better than the 5400.

Overclock it too 3 ghz with stock heatsink. Just don't bump the v core.

AMD is woefully deficent at overclocking compared to any of intels chips, at any price level.

A biostar t force for 79.99 is both reliable and a good overclocker. P43 chipset with DDR2 1066 and PCI E 2.0 support. The ASRock twin board at the same price looks good but only has a few reviews and those are some what mixed.

if you buy the 5400+ BE you HAVE to buy an aftermarket heat sink/cooler

so add at least $30 to the cost of the 5400+

but with the e7200 you can overclock with the stock cooler and reach the same speeds that you would with the amd with the aftermarket solution

so if you get the e7200 you're already saving $30 by not getting the heatsink/cooler
you can use that $30 to buy a better motherboard
then 2 or 3 months from now when you have extra cash you can buy a cooler and really crank up the e7200 way past anything the 5400+ could reach

you should get 3.4 on the e7200 pretty easily with just the stock cooler

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=558023

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread [...] ight=e7200

What is the purpose of this build? The GPU may end up making a bigger final difference in performance, in which case get whichever is cheaper. If there will be little to no gaming, the AMD on a 780G board is awfully tempting for cheap, but if you will get a discrete GPU anyway, may as well go for the Intel on a P43 or P35.

DEFINITELY E7200!

it's MUCH better for OC! I can run my E7200 at 3.3ghz at stock voltage (55 degrees full load with stock cooler) . and I've only got a $95 gigabyte p35 mobo

the E7200 has a FSB of 1066 (266mhz) with a 9.5x multiplier, but almost all intel motherboards today that supports 45nm processors supports fsb 1333 (333mhz), which means by simply setting the fsb to 333mhz in the bios, you achieve a clock speed of 3.16ghz!

the amd is unlocked but it has a higher TDP and it's much more difficult to achieve high overclocks.

I'm currently running my e7