Athlon XP upgrade

[H-Bomb]

I'm thinking of buying a new AMD Athlon Xp 3200 cpu off eBay (can't find it anywhere else). I have two questions. Firstly, how much of an improvement would this make to my system? Secondly, how much is one of these worth? I'm willing to pay up to £80 but if it isn't going to make a difference i won't bother. I mainly want it for overclocking and also my old xp 2500 is acting weird.

 

[Trizoy]

Firstly, dont double post.
IF you can spare the 185$ (or the ebay price) go for it. Mainly cause your other one is acting weird... But the performace increase wont be that much.


PCPROGRESS.com

Athlon XP 3200
ATHLON XP 3200+ SOCKET A (333Mhz BUS) 512K CACHE WITH QUANTISPEED ARCHITECTURE OPERATING AT 2.333GHZ OEM VERSION PULLS

$184

Found it with this..

Pricewatch.com/cpu/

 

[Motoxrdude]

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor - Retail at Newegg.com
100$

Anyways, you wont notice a huge difference. It would be a little faster, but not much.

 

[Arm_Pit]

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor - Retail at Newegg.com
100$

Anyways, you wont notice a huge difference. It would be a little faster, but not much.

Thats an Athlon 63 3200, not a Athlon XP 3200.


Anyways, I would recomend just getting a new socket and CPU, You could get a Semperin 3100+ and a motherbord for 60$ USD, or a A64 3000 for 90$ US

 

[H-Bomb]

Thanks for the input. Sorry about the double post, my browser messed up and, thinking it hadn't worked, i clicked the thingy again (DOH!) I'm hoping that one of the mods will delete the otherone before people start posting on it

 

[JSquier]

I'd say do something like this:

Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg
and
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor - Retail at Newegg.com

and still be cheaper. It will allow you to keep your AGP video card too!

EDIT, I see you are from UK. I'm sure you can find something similar and just go with 64 bit processor

 

[Arm_Pit]

I'd say do something like this:

Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg
and
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor - Retail at Newegg.com

and still be cheaper. It will allow you to keep your AGP video card too!

EDIT, I see you are from UK. I'm sure you can find something similar and just go with 64 bit processor

If hes going to do that, he may as well get the 3500+ for 10$ more imo.

 

[JSquier]

I agree, just something to go on though....you know?!?

 

[mrjack]

If possible I could have sold the one I have now or just given it to you since it looks like I'm gonna have to get a new system. It overclocks very well, it's at about 45°C using the stock cooler when OC'ed to 2.13GHz with a vcore of 1.675V. Stable as a rock, probably goes further with a vcore over 1.7V and a mobo that supports a 200MHz FSB instead of the 166MHz FSB my mobo uses at stock settings. Factory unlocked multiplier.