AMD 64 4000 San Diego

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Currently running a 3200 in rig as per sig. Just installed Vista Home Premium and reports my cpu is the low factor at 4.1 on windows experience everything else is 5.8/5.9.

For £40 inc p&p the 4000 looks a decent buy to eek a bit power out of my system as dont really plan on upgrading mobo/cpu for a while yet (famous last words).

Do you think this is a worthwhile buy and will I be able to overclock this baby (never o/c'd before) on my A8N-SLI with AMD retail cooler or is it worth forking out another £15 for an Artic Cooler Freezer (which btw does that inc heatsink and fan)?

Cheers,
Simon

 

[P1Fanatic]

Cheers for the replies.

Ah I assumed my mobo wouldnt support the X2 Chips. My BIOS revision is 1001 lol. I will try updating it now and if all ok think I may order myself an X2 3800 as seems pretty good value for money.

Simon

 

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Of course the single core will be quicker in games that don't use the extra core at all, but generally speaking the very newest games are where you need the performance the most and more and more of the newer and upcoming games do support dual core.

Sup Com for instance the difference is enormous. Oblivion is quicker on my 2.2 GHz dual core than on my 2.4 GHz single core. Flight Sim X much quicker with dual core. Quake 4 same thing. Stalker will be getting dual core support in the next patch. The older games are so quick that it doesn't really matter that they don't support dual core.

Well my current 3200 runs 2.0ghz stock so a 3800 X2 at 2.4 stock is gonna be better all round. Managed to updated BIOS to 1014 - real easy using Asus Update. Will order cpu tomorrow

Cheers,
Simon

 

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K. Yep your right about the stock speed. Not sure where I got that from (prob confused with single core as suggested).

Ive ordered one anyway. Hopefully works ok with XP and Vista 32bit as Ive seen some other threads about having to install AMD drivers for dual core and plenty of probs.

Cheers,
Simon