If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
AMD Athlon XP2800 or CeleronD345?
Hi
I am looking for an Athlon XP2800+ CPU to upgrade my PC: By it seems to me that they ar equite expensive now. Should Ijust ditch the old MB, and buy a new MB a a newer CPU? I mean, I can get a Intel Celeron D 345 3.06 GHz and a ASRock P4I65G R2.0 - Mainboard for the same price as 1 AMD Athlon XP2800+. And it seems to me that I can reuse my RAM modules. Any input? /JJ |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
AMD Athlon XP2800 or CeleronD345?
In article .com,
"jj92_2" wrote: Hi I am looking for an Athlon XP2800+ CPU to upgrade my PC: By it seems to me that they ar equite expensive now. Should Ijust ditch the old MB, and buy a new MB a a newer CPU? I mean, I can get a Intel Celeron D 345 3.06 GHz and a ASRock P4I65G R2.0 - Mainboard for the same price as 1 AMD Athlon XP2800+. And it seems to me that I can reuse my RAM modules. Any input? /JJ Check prices and the CPU charts. It might be possible to get an Athlon64 or Sempron for the same kind of dollars. AMD dropped their pricing on a certain number of products, to make them competitive in the low end of the market. According to this chart, the S939 Athlon64 3000+ Venice is third from the top in price/performance. The Pentium D 805 dual core is not far behind, but that assumes you could make good use of a dual. For gaming, a single core CPU might be a better fit. http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=464&chart=195 These are the prices I could find for your proposed solution. I could find a Cel 340 S478, but didn't find a Cel 345. "ASRock P4i65G Socket 478 Intel 865G Micro ATX $44" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157090 "Intel Celeron D 340 Prescott 2.93GHz 256KB L2 Cache Socket 478 $69" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819112195 This is the cheapest build I can do with a Venice. "AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1.8GHz Socket 939 ADA3000BPBOX $64" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103537 This is a Plain Jane motherboard, and apparently doesn't support overclocking. I only picked this because it was the cheapest board :-) The built-in graphics are probably not the best. "MSI 761GM2-V Socket 939 SiS 761 GX Micro ATX $47" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130541 So, the Venice 3000+ is in the same ballpark. I think the difference between these two solutions, is the motherboards. You are probably right to select the Asrock board, as it is more likely to work for you. Looking at a bunch of S939 boards on Newegg, I really cannot match the Asrock 865 board and give you a troublefree solution. At least that is the feeling I get from reading the customer reviews. To give you a good S939 solution, I'd probably recommend an A8N5X from Asus, and to get video, then you need a low end PCI Express x16 video card. So then I'm not even close to matching the Celeron solution. If some of the other boards were more trouble-free, I'd feel more comfortable recommending the S939 solution. Paul |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
What Can I Really Compare A AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Processor to?? | Ryan | General | 8 | November 10th 04 02:13 PM |
Power consumption on various versions and revisions of Athlon 64 | timeOday | General | 1 | June 2nd 04 12:06 PM |
Athlon MPs "obsolete"??? | Rob Stow | General | 5 | December 24th 03 01:48 AM |
Athlon 64's vs. Athlon XP vs. Pentium 4 | MarkW | General Hardware | 6 | December 14th 03 03:32 AM |
Asking for recommandations on CPU & Mainboard | _Jung | Homebuilt PC's | 7 | September 1st 03 01:45 AM |