XP 64 2.8 - good choice?

[enj483]

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New Egg has the Athlon 64 2.8 for $174. Is this a good choice for a gaming
system?

Is the Athlon 64 2.8 faster than a Athlon XP 3.2 in gaming benchmarks?

I would pair this with NewEggs Gigabyte Nforce3-250 $99 motherboard.

 

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ENJ483 wrote:
> New Egg has the Athlon 64 2.8 for $174. Is this a good choice for a
> gaming system?
>
> Is the Athlon 64 2.8 faster than a Athlon XP 3.2 in gaming benchmarks?

It's probably not dissimilar:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=2038&p=5

That shows an XP3000+ for comparison.

Of course, having the 754 board will allow you to upgrade to faster chips
than a socket A board will ever allow.

> I would pair this with NewEggs Gigabyte Nforce3-250 $99 motherboard.


Not a bad board (one of the K8NS range), but the MSI K8N Neo scores a little
better in the benchmarks.

I suspect a BIOS revision or two should close that gap somewhat.

Ben
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