What's the difference between these 3 CPU's ???

[georgebeee]

IMVHO I think you are making a very smart buy with your money. how many people keep their system more then 2 years or so. the socket 754 will serve you well in that time for the money you spend on it. memory is easier to find also as the single channel is less picky(cheaper memory to boot also) the newcastle chips also OC pretty well. not quite as well as the winchester cores, but I think for the money you are spending you will do very well.

you might want to consider these mobos also
<A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-219&depa=1" target="_new">Epox</A>
<A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-043&depa=1" target="_new">Chaintech</A>
<A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-180-061&depa=1" target="_new">Soltek</A>

 

[Nitrom]

The SOLTEK motherboard has a feature in the ONBOARD LAN area indicating that has 1000 Based T Ethernet...is that mean I don't have to buy a network card adpter for my Cable connection?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-180-061&depa=1

 

[endyen]

I'm talking chip speed, you are talking system speed. Last time I checked 2.2 ghz was exactly 10% faster than 2 ghz.
As for system speed, it all depends what you are doing.

 

[pat]

Yes, it has a network adapter for your cable connection. but if it is for internet, then, even 10 mbits will suffise as it give you 1.25 MBytes/seconde and fastest cable connection for home I've seen was around 650 kbytes/secondes

It works well but havent had a chance to test the integrated firewall thou

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[Lazerous]

"But I dont think Amd 64 3200+ will be 10% faster Then a Amd 64 3000+. Mybe 3 to 4% faster. But nice try anyway. "

The AMD 64 3000+ has a clock speed of 2.0ghz and the AMD 64 3200+ has a clock speed of 2.2ghz. lemme think here. 10% of 2.0...... hmmm...... I guess 2.2 would be 110% the clock speed of 2.0??? Gee, ya think? LOL

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[Lazerous]

Nitrom,

The new Gigabit ethernet adapters are simply a faster throughput than what was formerly available. It progressed from 10 baseT to 10/100 baseT and noe these sucka's have 10/100/1000 baseT. Faster throughput simply means fewer bottlenecks in your network. Granted, A cable connection (my cable downstrean runs at 3gbps) may not be able to utilize that much bandwidth(yet, lol) but some businesses have lightning fast internal networks that utilize a bit more of this added throughput. The answer to your question though is no, you don't need to go buy an adapter. The gigabit ethernet works the same way that the 100 baseT network adapters does.

BTW Nitrom. If you do any extensive amount of research about what processors rule the roost you see that AMD 64's are the rooster. Pentiums perform a bit better at rendering and video encoding and some winstone benches but when it comes to gaming the AMD is tops. For the money it's probabl;y the best all around processor as well. with an AMD 64 you can't go wrong. Try for one that has the 1mb of L2 cache though. 754 sockets are not dead and in fact in some cases offer better performance over some 939's.

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[Cybercraig]

Scratch Chaintech. Just got a bad VNF3-250 back with a burned Vreg. One weeks goes by and no response from Chaintech since the board is still under warranty. Blech!

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[Nitrom]

YES!!!...TRUE...after some research the conclusion is that the Athlon 64 are the best processors...

I was under the impression that the Athlon XP series were excellent also but now I have serious doubts about it.

Thanks for all the postings...really help me to make a good decision. I ordered the Athlon 64 3200+

 

[Nights_L]

sure Athlon XP are excellent..lot of us are using it

 

[sobelizard]

Keep in mind there are flavors to the 754 3400. The Newcastle core with 512k l2 cache @ 2.4GHz and the clawhammer core with 1MB l2 cache @ 2.2GHz. Depending on where you shop, price for the latter can vary from +$25 to +$120US.

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[Lazerous]

I don't think anyone ever said Athalon XP processors were bad.
XP processors are good processors, especially the barton core processors. People who love to OC love the Barton core because it can be OC'd so much more than others. The 64 bit processors are very fast indeed but if your on a budget and do not mind making your processor faster manually then the XP barton core could be your baby. LOL

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[endyen]

With nforce3 boards going for under $100, and the A64 3000+ only $150, there isn't much reason to go xp anymore. A lot of the newer s754 chips are good above 2.4, so they benefit from a little manual manipulation as well. If they release one on 90 nanos, I might even forget about s939 for a bit.