Re: Athlons - need some advice if poss
 

i'd 2nd that. Went from a 3400Clawhammer on 754 to 3800Venice s939.The difference evn from that was amazing.

Re: Athlons - need some advice if poss
 

Well I have took the Plunge and Opted for a Athlon 3700 S939 running at 2.2Ghz with 1 Meg Cache, a X600 Pro Card (PCI-Express), 1 GIG ram and so forth. Before somebody says WTF Radeon X600 Pro - I was out shopping and a Pre-Built machine (first one I have ever bought Pre-Built) Price wise matched what I would pay if I had bought parts. The benefit of this route is the shops allowed me to rip the machine apart so I could look at what was inside to make sure it was decent stuff rather than Some Cheap junk as they normally chuck in there. It comes with a 3 year Warrenty as well (Standard) should any problems arise.

A Mate of mine did go the Self build route Via E-Buyer off my Recommandation (no, i never recommended E-Buyer lol) and of the pparts he bought so far, One stick of Ram already dead and Motherboard dead also. He also went S754 Route (as he bought AGP NVidia 6600) to boot running a S754 A3700. It was a good opitunity to test the two side by side and I can say the difference is def Visable. For Testing we did a serious of Games and apps to see the difference.

Now In theory my GFX Card is worse yes? Yet it could ramp up the Res and features better than his and keep the framerate no problems - this I could not understand at all. Only thing that comes to mind is its not a X600 even though it says it is...wierd

Re: Athlons - need some advice if poss
 

I have a 3400 Newcastle (half the L2 cache of the clawhammer) in my other machine, runs at 2.6ghz on air and pretty much blows any comparable 939 (including my 3500) processor away.

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