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AMD Upgrade!
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Why not a tri core 720?
Should be able to clock it enough to match the performance of the 940 whilst being a lot cheaper. Then you could afford a nice AM2+ mobo to complete the package.
That should easily fall within your budget. My 720 and the ASUS board (b-grade) in sig cost just under £215 all in.
Indeed, if you don't need SLi or xfire then you could get the lot brand new for well under £200.
For example THIS flashed to the F3 bios supports Phenom II's for £46. That's just under £170 for both!!!
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Should be able to clock it enough to match the performance of the 940 whilst being a lot cheaper. Then you could afford a nice AM2+ mobo to complete the package.
That should easily fall within your budget. My 720 and the ASUS board (b-grade) in sig cost just under £215 all in.
Indeed, if you don't need SLi or xfire then you could get the lot brand new for well under £200.
For example THIS flashed to the F3 bios supports Phenom II's for £46. That's just under £170 for both!!!
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How come?
Better performance in terms of encoding and gaming too as far as i can see from reviews.
Also, a chunk less power is used by the PII as well.
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Righto!
Why not a tri core 720?
Should be able to clock it enough to match the performance of the 940 whilst being a lot cheaper. Then you could afford a nice AM2+ mobo to complete the package.
That should easily fall within your budget. My 720 and the ASUS board (b-grade) in sig cost just under £215 all in.
Indeed, if you don't need SLi or xfire then you could get the lot brand new for well under £200.
For example THIS flashed to the F3 bios supports Phenom II's for £46. That's just under £170 for both!!!
gt
Best suggestion so far!
Why not a tri core 720?
Should be able to clock it enough to match the performance of the 940 whilst being a lot cheaper. Then you could afford a nice AM2+ mobo to complete the package.
That should easily fall within your budget. My 720 and the ASUS board (b-grade) in sig cost just under £215 all in.
Indeed, if you don't need SLi or xfire then you could get the lot brand new for well under £200.
For example THIS flashed to the F3 bios supports Phenom II's for £46. That's just under £170 for both!!!
gt
Because tri core isnt quad core?
Sounds good though, no idea how to flash bios.
TBH it's very easy!Because tri core isnt quad core?
Sounds good though, no idea how to flash bios.
All you'd need is a normal AM2 chip (which you already have) to boot up the board to flash the bios (guide should be on the Gigabyte site) and once it is successfully flashed you just swap the 3800X2 with the phenom and you're up and running!
gt
TBH it's very easy!
All you'd need is a normal AM2 chip (which you already have) to boot up the board to flash the bios (guide should be on the Gigabyte site) and once it is successfully flashed you just swap the 3800X2 with the phenom and you're up and running!
gt
Might do that then. Clever
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Best bet then Thorpy would to try and get a AMD 6000X2 from MM or somewhere similar. Some competitors were selling them for £60 a few weeks ago
Could he run a 7750, they are only 57 squids here..
Yeah that would be a better suggestion, although Thorpy has said he wants tri/quadcore for editing etc.
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These are basicly dual core Phenom 1s with unlocked Multis, great for gaming and clocking with AM3 Upgrade Path (Mine runs at 3.4GHz) but not so great at encoding I would think compared to a quad core CPU.
As Said Deffo look at a Quad.
The cheapest Phenom 2 Quad at mo is the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 810 2.6GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
£156.39
With a Basic Motherboard should be doable for not much more than £200...
SooOOOoOOO...
Get this badboy? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-235-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328
Get this mobo and flash it to AM2+ ?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-165-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=805
ARgh just noticed the board only has 2 DIMM slots, mine has 4 and they are all used.
Two 1gb sticks and two 512mb sticks, however XP doesnt even recognise the 3rd gig for software level stuff so.. Drop the 1gb of RAM or diff mobo?
Get this badboy? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-235-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328
Get this mobo and flash it to AM2+ ?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-165-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=805
ARgh just noticed the board only has 2 DIMM slots, mine has 4 and they are all used.
Two 1gb sticks and two 512mb sticks, however XP doesnt even recognise the 3rd gig for software level stuff so.. Drop the 1gb of RAM or diff mobo?
u can't flash a am2 to a am2+.
am2+ basicly means HT 3.0 where am2 as HT 1.0.
the am2+ cpu would still run on it but at HT 1.0
also that board only supports ddr2 800mhz, so if u wanted to go for 1066mhz that board can't support it.
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