build advice

[poohat1000]

hi guys im trying to build a pc on the cheap (yes im prob gona stick leopard on there but its primarily for games)

so far looks like this:


2x Arianet 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM

Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200

ATI Radeon HD 4870



my question - is the 2mb cache on the processor so small that its going to prevent me getting the power from the gfx card? im worried it might not be able to feed the gpu all the data it needs

 

[dukebound85]

umm what mb you having? thats kind of an important part, esp if you want to put leopard on it

 

[poohat1000]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145751

Asus P5Q PRO P45 Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

kosher?



hmm, i've been told this processor is crap and to go core duo or amd phenom, which would you reccomend? Worth going up to a 4mb cache?

 

[MPHL]

Get a lot of ram, can never go wrong there.

 

[Eidorian]

The E5200 is a great processor and it overclocks quite well.