On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:00:54 +1000, No One Realy No one.com wrote:

Athlon64 X2 3800+ Feedback need I WANT one but is it good ??


Whats the difference to the 4200. Which was the one i wanted but to
expensive. Why is the 3800 X2 less expensive ?


Thanlks.


The die size is smaller 147mm^2 vs 233 and 199mm^2 for its big
brothers. Smaller die = lower cost.

The cache accounts for a major percentage of the transistors. This was
designed with a 512 cache, The 4200 with 1mb and 512 caches are the
same die, when there were defects in the 1mb AMD made it a 512.

I have read that the 3800+ doesn't OC quite as much as the 4200+, but
that may improve as AMD gets the bugs worked out of the manufacturing
process.

Gollum