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athlon 4000+ skt 939 to a x2 4200 worth it ?

Yeah i wouldnt pay a fortune for one. Bear in mind that less than £100 will get you a E2180 CPU, P31 mobo and 2gb PC6400 RAM and combined with your 4850 it ill be much better than the X2 4200, especially when clocked :)
 
still got to be better than my current chip though right ?
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Wrong. The chip is inferior when it isn't fully supported.

You are best saving up for a "proper" overhaul instead of extending the life of an extinct socket.
 
Hey urban_reaper,

I wouldn't spend one single penny on that platform but swapping your older X1900XTX for a HD4850 is a sound enough idea. . .

Just for your information Socket 939 motherboards and branded DDR memory are worth quite a bit at auction, seems strange that you can sell old kit and get enough money to replace it with new kit.

Mono Core CPU's are not worth very much but Dual-Cores command a premium, as do nVidia n-Force4 chipsets and 2GB DDR kits. . .

Hope this helps! :)
 
Changing that CPU if you mostly game would be a bit pointless, if you also encode etc, and its cheap, it would be a bargain.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Just for your information Socket 939 motherboards and branded DDR memory are worth quite a bit at auction, seems strange that you can sell old kit and get enough money to replace it with new kit.
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This is true. I was shocked at the prices of 939 gear when I was looking around at random stuff on eBay recently. I still don't get it!

If you really feel the need to upgrade the CPU, you should get at least the 5200+ X2, but personally I would do as MeatLoaf suggested and grab a cheap Intel dual core, socket 775 board and 2x1GB RAM (if you don't already have DDR2, that is). When overclocked, it will absolutely slaughter the AMD setup you have now. Can't be bad for approx. £100.
 
i sold my dfi lanparty mobo my 4800+x2 and my 2 gig kit of mushkin redlin ddr for 290 quid earlier this year if u got boxes for stuff it helps big time :)
 
Flogging your existing chip (£20) Mobo (£20ish depending) and DDR (1GB fetches about £10ish)

Means £50 towards a low end C2D, and 2GB DDR2, and if you can, push for a P35 mobo.

The upgrade will be VERY noticable.

I went from:

3800+ X2 @ 2.6Ghz 939
1GB DDR 400
Asus A8N-E

to

E2160 @ 3ghz
MSI Neo2-FR
2GB DDR2-6400

And the overall boost to the system was incredible!
 
I've recently bunged in an X2 into my old 939; have to say the upgrade isn't as straightforward as i would have liked it. Gaming its ok, but in constant computing, like using boinc, i can only manage like 70% cpu usage before it self throttles for a bit. After about 50 cycles of self throttlling, it hangs. so.... been bashing away at the problem for like a month now.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Hey urban_reaper,
Just for your information Socket 939 motherboards and branded DDR memory are worth quite a bit at auction, seems strange that you can sell old kit and get enough money to replace it with new kit.
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Dee! said:
This is true. I was shocked at the prices of 939 gear when I was looking around at random stuff on eBay recently. I still don't get it!
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I just up graded my PC a few weeks ago and a friend is have my old kit for £60, X2 4800+ and a AF 64 Pro, NF4 mobo, 2 GB Corsair DDR and I still have all the boxs and packaging for every thing apart for the AF 64.

Should I charge him more...lol :D
 
w00dy85 said:
I just up graded my PC a few weeks ago and a friend is have my old kit for £60, X2 4800+ and a AF 64 Pro, NF4 mobo, 2 GB Corsair DDR and I still have all the boxs and packaging for every thing apart for the AF 64.

Should I charge him more...lol :D
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wow, considering i paid about £30 for a X2 3800+ off fleabay... nice value... can I be your friend?lol :D
 
They are getting more expensive by the day as well.

6 months ago i sold my 4200+ x2 for £46, they now sell for £70-80 at auction :eek:

I got £50 for my dfi lanparty expert mobo - they now sell again for £70 -£80.

My best sale was my corsair 2-2-2-5 memory (2 x 1gb) which sold for £90. I dread to think how much they sell for now.

Still, selling the whole lot went a long way toward my current rig - mobo cost £60, cpu cost £90 and ram cost £74

It does amaze me that you can sell quality socket 939 stuff for more than you can buy faster Intel based stuff. But I ain't complaining :)
 
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