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3500 Venice v 3800 X2

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A good friend of mine has just gone from a 3500+ Venice to a 3800+ X2... ive got the A8N Nforce Premium board and was wondering if i should consider the jump to 3800+ x2 also... will i see massive differences in Quake 4 (all i use my computer for)?

Also is there a huge difference between the A8N Premium and the Deluxe as theres not much in it price-wise (obviously the deluxe is a really good looking board).

Thx all...
 
You will only notice the difference when both of the cores are enabled in the game, it will be also good for multitasking. I would get the Premium if I was you .due to the passive cooling and decent performance.
 
Sweet! Should have said i already have the Premium, was just checking if i should stick with what i have....

Cheers man!
 
For Quake 4; if you have an X1800XT / 7800GT or better then the dual core CPU will perform quite a bit better if using the dual core patch for that game.


on a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ are 63 percent faster at 800x600 with threading enabled. The 4800+ also feeds back good gains.

The good news continues at 1280x1024, where 77.4 frames per second turn into 101.7 on the Athlon 64 3800+. AMD’s 4800+ gets a boost as well

there’s a lot to like about the latest patch for Quake 4, whether you have an Athlon 64 X2 or a dual-core/Hyper-Threaded Intel chip. The two architectures each pick up phenomenal performance gains.

Naturally, you’ll see the biggest difference at resolutions where you’re not bottlenecked by a graphics card. With our Radeon X1800 XT, the sweet spot seemed to be 1280x1024 on both platforms. Even 1600x1200 with 6xAA and 16xAF showed an appreciable difference, though. That’s pretty remarkable when you consider most processor debuts demonstrate very little improvement at 1600x1200. And that’s with all of the graphics goodies turned off, too.

If this is what we can expect from threaded game engines, than we’ll take more, please
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Interesting, for the time being i might just look at overclocking... anyone know what these chips have been clocked at on air cooling...
 
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