So....!? What's the value/speed deal right now?

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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!
 
Quoth The Raven: Bruin said:
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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i'm sitting on an amd64 3000+ OC'd by 600mhz (equiv to 3400+) but it
needs more cooling than what i have in an ambiant temp room, so i reckon
you could buy a 3400 and OC that
 
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.


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Ed said:
- that's the chipset I'm suggesting, for overclocking.
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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.
 
Ed Light said:
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?).
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I agree completely with that. I have built a few S754 Sempron rigs recently,
and they are just plain evil for the cost.
 
Ed Light said:
He has an AGP card.


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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.
 
Yadayada said:
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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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
 
Neil Barras said:
So no point in goin s939 at the mo?
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For a bottom-budget machine, a 754 with a Sempron 64 is great. But if you're
going to get an A-64 then the good, cooler-running, more memory-compatible
Venice ones are 939. (The Sempron 64 is more a chip off the
Winchester/Venice than off the socket 754 A-64's. If you think you might
want go to a dual-core later, then 939 would be it.


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