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!!! Aaargh, think I have made a massive mistake!!!

Gandalf501

Gandalf501

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Would you buy a AMD 64 3500+ sckt 939, brand new, boxed, for £31 inc delivery?

I did.

Only just noticed its got the Newcastle core?

Have I made a massive error?

I have a 2600+ at the moment.
 
I was going to buy a 939 mobo anyway. My current is a Sckt A, (Abit NF7)

I will be flogging my 2600+ and mobo. (Any ideas, or is it just worth scrapping)

I just made an impulse buy. I saw the price, and thought it was a mistake... Until I realised the core... :-(
 
<maddness> said:
that is cheap :eek:

is your 2600+ a amd athlon xp? or a 939 chip
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they never made a 2600 CPU for the 939 platform ;)


to the O.P. no its not a mistake as thats stupidly cheap... i just hope it works. as for your old mobo and chip, dont scrap em, hell come up with a good price (but dont post that price here, no trading outside of members market. i am avaiable to talk via e-mail) and i may have em off you :p
 
Newcastles run hotter, but they can still clock well, my old Newcastle 3500 did:
2.75ghz on water
2.65ghz on air
 
locutus12 said:
they never made a 2600 CPU for the 939 platform ;)


to the O.P. no its not a mistake as thats stupidly cheap... i just hope it works. as for your old mobo and chip, dont scrap em, hell come up with a good price (but dont post that price here, no trading outside of members market. i am avaiable to talk via e-mail) and i may have em off you :p
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i couldnt be bothered googling, its too hot to google :p
 
Thanks peeps. It was one of those moments of impulse. One minute your looking, the next its on its way... Didnt even check the details...

Was going to buy a 3700+ san diego...

Well, thats an extra £70 saved. Perhaps an x1800gt instead of a x1800gto???
:D
 
i got a 3500+ newcastle on first day of availability in the uk, so first ever stepping, did 2.75Ghz water too. pretty much matches what a lot of people get on newer single core ath 64's so a very good deal,
 
True. It should work, its new, retail box! :D Always get refund if it doesnt.

I think it was the price that made me just buy it there and then. I wasnt building the new machine until september! I have been reading about the Newcastle core, and its not that bad.

No SSE3, but it will run adobe premier (at last....)

Erm, yeah. X1800xt. GT's are nVidia arnt they... :D
 
.::lawrywild::. said:
hrm.. since when were there 939 newcastles??
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From Wiki:

"On June 1, 2004, AMD released new versions of both the ClawHammer and Newcastle core revisions for the newly-introduced Socket 939, an altered Socket 940 without the need for buffered memory[13]. Socket 939 offered two main improvements over Socket 754: the memory controller was altered with dual-channel architecture[14], doubling peak memory bandwidth, and the HyperTransport bus was increased in speed from 800 MHz to 1000 MHz[15]."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
 
sr4470 said:
From Wiki:

"On June 1, 2004, AMD released new versions of both the ClawHammer and Newcastle core revisions for the newly-introduced Socket 939, an altered Socket 940 without the need for buffered memory[13]. Socket 939 offered two main improvements over Socket 754: the memory controller was altered with dual-channel architecture[14], doubling peak memory bandwidth, and the HyperTransport bus was increased in speed from 800 MHz to 1000 MHz[15]."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
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OK, thought they were 754 only :)
 
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