AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz

Jabbs · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:18

I noticed they were £99 mark last night and gone up today too £117 mark the AM2 socket ones, are they set to rise even more, could do with knowing, can anyone from oc's confirm this.

toxic · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:29

where are you seing these prices? also...the 3800's run at 2.0 Ghz

On OCuk...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2)
Price: £181.95 (£213.79 Including VAT at 17.5%)

toxic · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:30

woops...single core :rolleyes:

Hmm...not sure

gam3r · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:30

He's talking about the single core venice 3800+.

james.miller · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:31

3800+ single core am2 venice mate...

toxic · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:31

they are 99 ex. VAT...and 117 including. You mayeb just missed the VAT bit before.

Jabbs · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:41

Nopes was deffo £99 including vat last night, i wouldn't have made a deal to pass on my P4 stuff to me mate last night if it was £117inc, as what i flogging it for coverd the new mobo and the cpu, i wouldn't have made a mistake like that.

james.miller · 20 Jun 2006 at 10:42

yeah it was. i had to refresh the page because it was still 99inc when i looked just now lol

HeX · 20 Jun 2006 at 11:52

They are still £95-99 elsewhere... and I doubt they will go up.

If anything they will drop even more after Conroe.

djcj · 20 Jun 2006 at 13:15

They definately were £99 inc VAT yesterday as i was so suprised at the price i made this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17590061

Jabbs · 20 Jun 2006 at 14:23

Yup bit dissapointed they rose so much in 1 day.

gam3r · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:17

whats this chip like anyway?

uk_sam · 21 Jun 2006 at 18:49

I'd recommend the chip for games since its great value. I am personally waiting to build a dual core system though

melymel2789 · 21 Jun 2006 at 23:38

wait until conroe to buy am2 as AMD plan some tasty price drops shortly after conroe release, especially in the dual cores too

Jabbs · 22 Jun 2006 at 08:35

My mate pretty desperate for this P4 i got, after seeing that a A64 3200 out performs a 3.6 gig P4 on games i was rather shocked :eek:

, so going too a 3800 would give me a hell of a boost from this 3.4.

WotDa · 22 Jun 2006 at 08:47

Jabbs said:
My mate pretty desperate for this P4 i got, after seeing that a A64 3200 out performs a 3.6 gig P4 on games i was rather shocked , so going too a 3800 would give me a hell of a boost from this 3.4.

Welcome to the world of AMD.

I snapped up one of these yesterday for my new AM2 build, just wanted a small upgrade of my skt 754 stuff. Shame OcUK didn't have the gfx or mobo in stock yesterday.

It certainly is a good value for money cpu at that price imo.

Jabbs · 22 Jun 2006 at 09:12

Same the money i flogging the P4/pci-e mobo and agp mobo will pay for the 3800 am2 and mobo, as i said above i already got 2 gig of g.skill ddr2 ram so will be a nice upgrade for me.

WotDa · 22 Jun 2006 at 09:30

I was thinking of flogging the stuff, but then I saw my old PC, hand me downs all the way tbh.

Jabbs · 26 Jun 2006 at 10:41

No point starting a new thread, i been looking for reviews of these AM2 3800's with little being found. I just want something to give me a boost in gaming to say xmas then upgrade again.

Currently on P4, 3.4 with ddr2 ram this stuff is going this week apart from ram so want a good boost in gaming for now, would this give me it.

Edit:

I noticed on s939 it was around 40fps boost average over the P4, now is am2 any faster or do they pretty much perform the same as 939

WotDa · 26 Jun 2006 at 12:39

Jabbs said:
I noticed on s939 it was around 40fps boost average over the P4, now is am2 any faster or do they pretty much perform the same as 939

In some applications, 1%, in some games, up to 4%.

is it worth it? Yes. Future proofing is worth it imo.