athlon 64 3500+

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jazzband4ever

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hey,

i was going to buy the athlon 64 3500+ (939) and i am a little short on money so like if i get a step or two down will it make a big difference in performance in like games and stuff or does it not really matter in the long run. thanx
 
money so like if i get a step or two down will it make a big difference in performance in like games and stuff or does it not really matter in the long run. thanx
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One step? or two? What do you mean "long run"?
 
well, i dont know what the next socket 939 is off the top of my head so lets just say like a 3400 or like the 3200 cpu. that what i am talking about and would it like slow my games down a lot if i went with the slower cpu because if it will make a big difference i will just save my pennies longer and go with the 3500
 
What i meant with my question was "one step down" (3200) or "two steps down" (3000) ... if you go down one step theres not that much difference; going down two is noticeable
 
Hmmmm....

Noticeable but by how much? I don't think it's a great difference actually. Nothing great for a normal user that is.

JAN :D
 
3500 runs at 2.2Ghz
3200 runs at 2.0Ghz
3000 runs at 1.8Ghz
Theres a noticeable difference (especially cuz the AMD chips are clock-efficient)
 
3500 runs at 2.2Ghz
3200 runs at 2.0Ghz
3000 runs at 1.8Ghz
Theres a noticeable difference (especially cuz the AMD chips are clock-efficient)
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There was a 3400+ (sk939) last I checked which was the same speed as the 754skt but with half the L2 cache so I thinke the next step down would be the 3400+ or have they discontinued this chip?
 
jazzband4ever said:
hey,

i was going to buy the athlon 64 3500+ (939) and i am a little short on money so like if i get a step or two down will it make a big difference in performance in like games and stuff or does it not really matter in the long run. thanx
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remember you can always overclock when you have to.
 
There was a 3400+ (sk939) last I checked which was the same speed as the 754skt but with half the L2 cache so I thinke the next step down would be the 3400+ or have they discontinued this chip?
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eh so I'm wrong again ;-). I did indeed read a review errr preview I dunno that mentioned a 3400+ SK 939 with a 512L2 cache but cannot find any hard evidence of one although I'm still finding alot of junk in other forums of others claiming of them :-). Although there are 2 diff 3400+ with diff cores one being Clawhammer with 1mb L2 cache (mine) and Newcastle core with 512kb L2 cache.

If anyone could give me a definant NO on the skt 939 Athlon 3400+ Plz do thnx :-).
 
amd 2800

I have the socket 754 2800 and so far there isn't much that doesn't play at very high levels........very pleased with it......Wish I would of spent a bit more money on a video card but oh well
 
overclocking

just out of pure curiosity when you are overclocking do they make a program that stay on top of all other ones that constantly gives you reading as far as temp as such when you have overclocked something so you can keep a close eye on it or is it basically trial and error stuff or is it ok until it burns up?
 
Bigshow1030 said:
just out of pure curiosity when you are overclocking do they make a program that stay on top of all other ones that constantly gives you reading as far as temp as such when you have overclocked something so you can keep a close eye on it or is it basically trial and error stuff or is it ok until it burns up?
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It is totally trial and error, but you can get something like hardware monitor
 
just out of pure curiosity when you are overclocking do they make a program that stay on top of all other ones that constantly gives you reading as far as temp as such when you have overclocked something so you can keep a close eye on it or is it basically trial and error stuff or is it ok until it burns up?
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This is where the comment "OCing is perfectly safe as long as you apply common sense" comes in .... if you're gonna be OCing the piss out of the box without *pre*-paring in advance for it then if its fries thats your own fault :)


It is totally trial and error
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Not really. They have all sorts of "easy to use" overclocking tools and monitoring devices and applications etc.
 
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