gonna make a small jump to an A64 setup..3700+ or 3400+?

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Visable-assassin

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Just simply put which one of these should I drop some coin on?
Im thinking about pairing it with a DFI lanparty socket 754 mobo since Im hearing good things about it in the realm of OCing on either chip on this board?
Im leaning more towards the 3400+ due to cost...but will I be disappointed? when compaired to my AXP 2500+m @ 2.6ghz
 
you wont be dissapointed from your current system, regardless of which one you pick. how much do you have to spend?
 
Hmm... If you're on a budget the 3200+ and even the 3000+ are excellent values, if you're upgrading with an eye to the future and want to sorta "future-proof" yourself or have more legs for future upgrades the 3500+ is a good sweet point. Both the 3400+ and the 3700+ are a bit much imo for a system that you're looking to OC, unless money's no object... but then there's always the FXs. ;) :cool:
 
I was in the same dilemma, and I picked the 3700...now if only I could come up with the best case to O/C this with...water cooling for the cpu or vapochill for the cpu...or custom water cooling for the cpu/chipset/gpu...or maybe just stick with air? Oh the decisions. :(
 
Impulse said:
Hmm... If you're on a budget the 3200+ and even the 3000+ are excellent values, if you're upgrading with an eye to the future and want to sorta "future-proof" yourself or have more legs for future upgrades the 3500+ is a good sweet point. Both the 3400+ and the 3700+ are a bit much imo for a system that you're looking to OC, unless money's no object... but then there's always the FXs. ;) :cool:
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I would go socket 939 but right now it seems as if not one mobo company can get off its ass and make a board worth a damn in my opinion. When the NF2 chipset came out everyone went apeshit and got a working PCI lock pretty quickly...the 939 family has just come out sure but not one company seems to really be trying for a PCI lock...with the exception of MSI but I dunno if their neo 2 platnum is really worth a damn right now...unless someone can show me otherwise, some positive OC results that are stable as well as some personal thoughts...not "I bought it I love it"
Right now it just seems as if the DFI board on socket 754 has everything in place and does its damn job....Id like to spend roughly 400-500$ which for me is small and with that I can go either way 939 or 754...but its a toss up
 
Visable-assassin said:
I would go socket 939 but right now it seems as if not one mobo company can get off its ass and make a board worth a damn in my opinion. When the NF2 chipset came out everyone went apeshit and got a working PCI lock pretty quickly...the 939 family has just come out sure but not one company seems to really be trying for a PCI lock...with the exception of MSI but I dunno if their neo 2 platnum is really worth a damn right now...unless someone can show me otherwise, some positive OC results that are stable as well as some personal thoughts...not "I bought it I love it"
Right now it just seems as if the DFI board on socket 754 has everything in place and does its damn job....Id like to spend roughly 400-500$ which for me is small and with that I can go either way 939 or 754...but its a toss up
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I'm in the same situation. I have in my cart at newegg, a S939 3000+, an Asus 939 mobo, and 512MB of compatible XMS Corsair memory. total cost is $412. I decided to wait until next weekend to see how I feel about it, and get some more reviews in. But I feel that I should just go with the DFI board and a 2800+ or a 3000+. Not sure yet.
 
Yeah I agree on that count, 754 seems more mature, the DFI Lanparty is hard to pass up. By the time you want a new processor there'll be dual cores and reasons to upgrade the mobo anyway (PCIe).
 
Impulse said:
Yeah I agree on that count, 754 seems more mature, the DFI Lanparty is hard to pass up. By the time you want a new processor there'll be dual cores and reasons to upgrade the mobo anyway (PCIe).
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right now the DFI mobo is lookin real sweet. and untill someone gets off their ass and makes a 939 mobo with PCI locks that work 100% and with out beta BIOS' and what not...it kind of pointless to me. RIght now MSIs neo 2 is lookin good but people are still having problems with it...is ASUS' A8V (AV8 whichever it is) rev 2 with 100% working locks out yet?
 
Ran fine with 3700 at 242x12 -1.75V(moded Bios1.5V to 1.8V) w/ Epox 8KDA3+(moded NB cooler). The only dissapoinment is 3700 price dropped to sub $500(from $700) 3 wks after I bought it.
 
Get a 2800 or a 3000 w/ a newcastle core and pair it up with a DFI lanparty and a vapo.... better than any of this dual channel stuff. I can't find any reason to spend extra $$ on better bandwith scores when it makes a marginal difference in games. Take the money and buy some OCZ 3700EB ram and take the DFI to new FSB heights.
 
TheLonelySwedish said:
Get a 2800 or a 3000 w/ a newcastle core and pair it up with a DFI lanparty and a vapo.... better than any of this dual channel stuff. I can't find any reason to spend extra $$ on better bandwith scores when it makes a marginal difference in games. Take the money and buy some OCZ 3700EB ram and take the DFI to new FSB heights.
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you havent read the thread have you?
the 2800 or 3000+ do not interest me. Nor does a vapo since that alone puts me out of my budget for a small upgrade. Also I refuse to OCZ anything in my system besides I love my Corsair XMS 3200 PRO XL
 
I'd get the 3400 if you can find a 1MB cache version... that thing rocks! The new ones are 512KB tho :(
 
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