which 939 CPU

[dannyjebb]

hi i have just bought an asrock dual motherboard because i have a good agp graphics card but want to upgrade my processor. i have 2 questions.

which socket 939 cpu is best value at the moment am not lookin at spending over £100 on a cpu so its prolly gonna be a semperon or a amd64 3000+ i use my pc for play games over the net and the like.

secondly does any1 know whether this motherboard will take my pc2100 memory? i have tried lookin around and get get a proper answer anywere

cheers Danny

ooops just realised that the semperon is for socket 754 lol so i guess i will spend upto a bout £140. do u get a big performance gain from the 3500+ compared to the 3000+ or the 3200+ whcih are both around £100

 

[bigsaucybob]

i wuld go with the 3200 its a good budget processor. also im sure the pc2100 will work u just have to make sure its the right pin and type of memory.

 

[jancz3rt]

Hey

Yeah socket 939 motherboards will support PC2100 RAM. However, it could (would rather) slow down the performance of the entire system. I believe that the A64 3000+ is a good candidate but if the 3200+ is not much more expensive, you could go for that instead. I would skip the Semprons alltogether (not saying that they are not good or anything). The performance increase between the 3500+ and the 3000+ should not be anything huge at all.

JAN