PAGE-2: Which Processor? related to style, athlon, motherboard, align

lantactics

Jan 6 2005, 11:46 PM

Pentium 4 has always served me good. But quite honesly, AMD is better for gaming I'm told. If I could trade in my P4 right now, I'd definitely go with an AMD 64 bit processor. POWER!!!

Deaths Aprentice

Jan 8 2005, 01:19 PM

Im thinking of buying this one:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Socket 754 FSB800 2,40 GHz 1MB cache .

Thats 245 euro

Expensive, I know, but I was told this is the best one to overclock(heh).

alperuzi

Jan 10 2005, 12:08 AM

Socket 754 is obsolete, DO NOT buy that one. Get a new socket 939 athlon 64.

Deaths Aprentice

Jan 12 2005, 04:22 PM

Heh, thanks for telling me, I was planning on buying 1 today O_O.

I think i'll buy this 1 then:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939 FSB800 2,40 GHz 512KB cache.
It's 309 euro, but it should be worth it

alperuzi

Jan 13 2005, 12:18 AM

Thats a good one.

Another note, beware of the motherboard Abit AV8. I was installing it with a friend yesterday and the motherboard does not support some Athlon64 CPUs out of the box. To get the new 90nm CPUs working you need a BIOS update. And because you can't get the thing to work you cannot update the BIOS

Deaths Aprentice

Jan 15 2005, 08:09 AM

Wah, that is sucks!

I might not buy that motherboard though, there is a special advertised motherboard in my local PC store now, and that looks pretty good aswell.

What motherboard would you suggest for that processor?

Dayzed

Jan 18 2005, 12:33 AM

Not sure weather or not its in your range, but the AMD Athlon 64 2800+. Although, its not at all the verry best, its what I use in my my computer, and it gets the job done. Although, it is kind of outdated, but hey, its all good.

Deaths Aprentice

Jan 24 2005, 05:12 PM

Ok, I've now desided what processor I'm gonna use, thanks guys!

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket 939 FSB800 2,40 GHz 512KB cache.
Its 310 euros, but its worth it!

Thanks again everyone!

srbempire

Nov 1 2005, 11:40 AM

What you get for your money with AMD beats Intel hands down. Intel simply seems to have gotten a reputation as the leaders in processor manufacture. I use an AMD athlon XP and have never had any problems with the heat whatsoever.

The AMD athlon XP 3000 has a clock speed of around 2.1 GHz. Using a decent mobo (I'd recomend MSI for overclocking) you can easily achieve 2.5 GHz or perhaps more in clock speed without cooling problems. The more expensive P4 3.0GHz CPUs are easily beaten performance wise by the AMD. Clock speed isn't everything!!

Intel simply seems to a trusted household name, I suspect more experienced computer users who are more researched lean towards AMD.

believer

Nov 2 2005, 07:09 AM

first of, what is your motherboard or planned motherboard? There different versions which requires different type of CPUs/processor. Without this information we really cannot tell you what is best for your situation.