Another Budget dual core question!

[underclocker]

After reading through this forum I know the general opinion is to go for Conro but for at least 6 months I am not going to be able to afford the upgrade.

I have a socket 939 AMD 64 3700 and although I mainly us my PC for gaming Im starting to do a lot more video and photo editing, would I see any benefits if I got a AMD X2 4400?
My plan would be to use this in my HTPC when I finally get a Conro rig so I do not think it would be a waste.
The X2 4400s are £163 on OC do you think that the price will drop any more? And are there many of these available second hand?

Thanks

 

[kevpuk]

I'd be inclined to get yourself a X2 3800+ and clock it a little - should get to X2 4400 speeds quite easily, in most cases.....and save a few more pennies !

 

[underclocker]

Thanks,
Im looking for something to tide me over until the start of next year. Hopefully by then quad core will have reduced the cost of dual core.

 

[deadeyedic30]

Get the X24400 and then sell the 3700SD to get back some of the cost.

 

[underclocker]

an excelent idea,
as I do not have access to the MM whats the going rate for a second hand 3700SD (as long as its not against the rules to ask)

 

[deadeyedic30]

Not against the rules to ask, and i have no idea, but the price cuts will have reduced what you can get for it. Knock a third off the price od a new one unless it is a good overclocker, but you don't mention if you do so assuming not.

 

[ganstakillerz]

Got myself a x2 3800 from overclockers, in fact brought 3 of them.

All three are crap for high overclocking, but depends on how far you want to overclock to. This one I had couldn't be stable at 2.6ghz.

I kept one and left ruuning at default for my server box and the other two were for friends. one of them have off load on ebay and the other is ruuning on default.

Very good for video and gfx's as I do CAD and video editing. However crap for gaming too much p*ssing about with drivers and patches to get the dual core to work properly with games.

If your planning to o/c to about 2.5 and under then should be fine.

Heres a question I brought a Opteron 165 which is dual core also. I installed that into my pc and had no problems what so ever with games or video editing etc... Didn't even need to install any patches either, yet the x2 3800 gives too much problems.

 

[The Asgard]

Heres a question I brought a Opteron 165 which is dual core also. I installed that into my pc and had no problems what so ever with games or video editing etc... Didn't even need to install any patches either, yet the x2 3800 gives too much problems.

I have been running AMD dual cores for a while and never really had a problem apart from Battlefront 2 and SS2 which could be solved by fourcing the exe to use a specific core.

I have used X2 3800, X2 4200, X2 4400, Opt 165, opt 170. Didn't notice any difference apart from the speed and overclocking potential. Interesting