Sign up with Googlei have a soket 939 3200+ and i was wondering if i sould up grade it. i was going to upgrade my graphics (HIS x1600pro iceQ) but im going to wait for the next gen cards to come out, and if it is some what "slow" for gaming what new cpu should i go for? im looking at the price range of R2000 give or take.
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is my cpu still good?
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supersunbird
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Have you overclocked your 3200? Mine is doing 2,5Ghz 
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Yeah, rather overclock your chip and buy a faster video card. You should easily get 2.7Ghz out of that chip.
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I just did mine today, you might have to loosen ther timings of the DDR a bit, what motherboard do you have?
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Aah, your board probably doesn't have a lock for the busses, which is why it gets unstable so fast.
If you're gonna stay with 939 maybe get an X2 3800+
Once you go dual core yo never go back
CPU overclock will depend on the board and all other things etc...
All nForce chipsets feature a locked PCI-e/PCI bus clock so that can't be the problem. But if you're using soe VIA chipset based board then maybe that could be your problem.
WHy though I say dual core is because X2 3800+ stock will come in faster than 2.6GHz 3200+ single core and when you oc that to 2.4GHz you won't find a single core to match it :/
Once you go dual core yo never go back
CPU overclock will depend on the board and all other things etc...
All nForce chipsets feature a locked PCI-e/PCI bus clock so that can't be the problem. But if you're using soe VIA chipset based board then maybe that could be your problem.
WHy though I say dual core is because X2 3800+ stock will come in faster than 2.6GHz 3200+ single core and when you oc that to 2.4GHz you won't find a single core to match it :/
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If you're gonna stay with 939 maybe get an X2 3800+
Once you go dual core yo never go back
agreed. Plus the X2 3800+ is dirt cheap now.
sweet but the thing is that i may do i the unthinkable and switch to intel coz of there new conroe cpu's, which most likely means i'll lose a few friends(they all die hard amd supporters). so im just gonna wait to see things pan out becuase you see intel are working on the quad core cpu and if that comes out soon (as in the next year) the prices of the dual core cpu's will drop like a ton of breaks.
But you won't one one then. Much like nobody want single core cpou anymore no matter the price.
I for example would rather have an X2 3800+ over and FX-57 anyday.
Same will happen with dual core vs Quad Core.
If you want to move to intel for cheap get the 6400 or 6300. Yes it's 2MB unified cache but at 2.33GHz they both beat the FX-62 in games and the like and those CPU's cost between X2 3800+ and X2 4200+. ie less than 2K
I for example would rather have an X2 3800+ over and FX-57 anyday.
Same will happen with dual core vs Quad Core.
If you want to move to intel for cheap get the 6400 or 6300. Yes it's 2MB unified cache but at 2.33GHz they both beat the FX-62 in games and the like and those CPU's cost between X2 3800+ and X2 4200+. ie less than 2K