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So....!? What's the value/speed deal right now?
My first big upgrade was a 200mgz to a Celeron 300A that I clocked to 450.
That was a DEAL & I loved the performance. I was happy for a while. Then it was a flip-chip P3 600 clocked at 800. I was happy. Then P4s came out, over-priced, neutered, & I jumped ship to AMD & got an 1800+ but ran it at it's rated speed. Still saved a ton over a P4. I was happy. Then, & finally I am running a 2500+ (1833) at 3200+ (2200) & I am getting the itch. Been running this CPU for over two years. TWO YEARS!!?! I am feeling an onset of Upgrade Fever. What is the speed vs value deal going right now? To be honest, I kept myself away from the hardware pages/groups to keep from catching the Fever & I am way behind the times. All I know is that I should maybe be lookin at Socket 939. Any good, inexpensive CPUs that I can crank up to expensive speeds? =) Best MB or at least chipset to go with that CPU would also help. What I gotta keep: 2-512 sticks of Mushkin PC3200 RAM the expensive low latency stuff 6800GT AGP video card (no PCI express for me) TIA! |
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For cheap, a Sempron 64 2600+ socket 764 overclocked to 2400. If you do, be
sure the motherboard isn't one of the ones that won't take two dual-sided memory sticks. Some sort of nforce 3 chipset (250?). Or better, the socket 939 with a Venice core 3200+ overclocked to 2400-2700. You'd want the nforce 3 ultra chipset. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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"Ed Light" wrote Some sort of nforce 3 chipset (250?). - that's the chipset I'm suggesting, for overclocking. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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Ed Light wrote:
"Ed Light" wrote Some sort of nforce 3 chipset (250?). - that's the chipset I'm suggesting, for overclocking. what about nforce4? i got my venice 3000+ stable at 2.7G (338*8, HTT *3 @1.5x volt (corecenter isnt ver specific about it, values tend to oscillate between 1.49 and 1.54) havent testet further, but 345 doesnt work anymore. 285*9 also worked at 4* HTT and same voltages. |
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"Markus Loeffler" wrote what about nforce4? He has an AGP card. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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"Ed Light" wrote in message news:eemTe.179833$E95.22053@fed1read01... For cheap, a Sempron 64 2600+ socket 764 overclocked to 2400. If you do, be sure the motherboard isn't one of the ones that won't take two dual-sided memory sticks. Some sort of nforce 3 chipset (250?). I agree completely with that. I have built a few S754 Sempron rigs recently, and they are just plain evil for the cost. |
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"Ed Light" wrote in message news:gRrUe.212438$E95.202020@fed1read01... "Markus Loeffler" wrote what about nforce4? He has an AGP card. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com Thinking that the AMD 64 X2 3800 might be a good choice but I want to wait a 2 months, maybe the price will go down & maybe I can get an AGP chipset that I could have confidence in. Seems to me that CPU prices are high these days. At least for my $374.00 the X2 comes with 2 cores. |
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"Yadayada" wrote in message ... "Ed Light" wrote in message news:eemTe.179833$E95.22053@fed1read01... For cheap, a Sempron 64 2600+ socket 764 overclocked to 2400. If you do, be sure the motherboard isn't one of the ones that won't take two dual-sided memory sticks. Some sort of nforce 3 chipset (250?). I agree completely with that. I have built a few S754 Sempron rigs recently, and they are just plain evil for the cost. I know it's kinda stealing a quick question here, but with the talk of S939 and S754, what is the performance difference between single and dual channel? Cheers, (Cheeky) Neil |
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"Neil Barras" wrote I know it's kinda stealing a quick question here, but with the talk of S939 and S754, what is the performance difference between single and dual channel? Depending on the application, about 5%. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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