$72=3000+ $86=3200+ $97=3500+

bratton

bratton

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As the title says, I can get a 3000+ for $72, a 3200+ for $86, or a 3500+ for $97. Should I go with the 3000+, or fork out for the 3200+ or 3500+?
 
well if you arent afraid of overclocking, you can get the 3000+ up to 3500+ speeds easily so I'd get that. My 3200+ is overclocked almost to FX-55 speed.
 
yea, well, my...
actually

I would be willing to overclock, but I'd rather not have to change from stock cooling if possible. Also, to get a 3000 to 3500, would I need to buy $100+ ram/gig, or can I stay with this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231046
I was looking around and thought I saw that you could initially underclock the ram the same amount you would be overclocking the cpu, so that it wouldn't be running too high, but maybe I didn't understand.
 
well if you arent afraid of overclocking, you can get the 3000+ up to 3500+ speeds easily so I'd get that
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Then why not get the 3200+ and overclock to 3700+ speeds. Or get the 3500+ and overclock to 4000+ speeds.
 
bigsaucybob said:
Then why not get the 3200+ and overclock to 3700+ speeds. Or get the 3500+ and overclock to 4000+ speeds.
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It's been stated many times before that that's not the way overclocking goes.

Just because you can get the performance difference of 500PR on a 3200+ to 3700+ doesn't mean that a 3500+ is going to go to 4000+ gauaranteed.
 
Bratton, I have the 3500+ and I can safely say that when I OCed to 2.55 Ghz, it was around 40*C. I would recommend you buy the 3000+ and just OC it to 2.2 Ghz, and you have your 3500+ :)

From then on, you can OC it further, or leave it there :)
 
gamerman4 said:
well if you arent afraid of overclocking, you can get the 3000+ up to 3500+ speeds easily so I'd get that. My 3200+ is overclocked almost to FX-55 speed.
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what do u think? the 3000+ are the same as the 3500+ and 3200+ and that the 3500+ and the 3200+ are just an overclocked version of the 3000+?
NO

3000+: 9x200
3200+: 10x200
3500+: 11x200

it is NOT
3000+:9x200
3200+:9x222
3500+:9x244


Thus the 3200+ and the 3500+ are NOT just an overclocked version of the 3000+. This is because they each have one more multiplyer then the model below them...

Theoretecly* this means that the 3200+ can overclock to be 200MHz more then the 3000+ can be overclocked to and the 3500+ can be overclocked be overclocked 400MHz more then the 3000+ can be overclocked to...

But in reality that doesn't work... however u can be assured that the 3200+ and the 3500+ can be overclocked to higher speeds then the 3000+... just not necessarily by a 200MHz difference(3200+) or a 400MHz difference(3500+)
but i think it would be safe to say that an average 3200+ would overclock to speeds around 60-150MHz higher then the average 3000+ would overclock to and i think it would be safe to say that an average 3500+ would overclock to speeds around 120-300MHz higher...
Thus paying the extra and buying the 3500+ seems to be a bonus...


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here is an example of what i am saying... if rambo can overclock his 3000+ to 2.55GHz then if he had a average 3500+ in there he could overclock it to probably 2.67-2.85GHz... probabbly around around 120-300MHz higher... mebbe not 400MHz higher even then having 2 more multiplyers would theorececly mean that but in actuallity it would probably be more around 120-300MHz higher...
 
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Maybe I'll go back to my original plan and just stick to a 3200+ since it's in the middle.
EDIT: and I'm cheap.
 
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bratton said:
Maybe I'll go back to my original plan and just stick to a 3200+ since it's in the middle.
EDIT: and I'm cheap.
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Its an extra 11 bucks for the 3500+ you would be better off with that.
 
GO with the 3500+. I have it and it is a great little processor. $11 dude, how often do you buy a computer anyways? Might as well pay a little more for a better processor.
 
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