Duel or not to dual :P

[Andromeda1983]

Because of a sale on a certain auction site, i now have the funds to either buy a 3800X2 or a 4000+. Hoping for a quick reply ill leave my current specs and what i use it for.

AMD64 3000+ SCK939 VENICE CPU (2.4 on air with lower memory divider)
6800GT 256MB AGP GRAPHICS CARD
2GB PC3200 DDR MEMORY (OCUK VALUE)
2 X 160GB MAXTOR 7200RPM SATA HARD DRIVES
GIGABYTE NFORCE3 250GB MOTHERBOARD (MODEL NOT KNOW OFFHAND)
SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS
T7700 7.1 SPEAKERS
VIEWSONIC VX922 19INCH TFT
COLORSIT TRUE 550W PSU (GOOD REVIEWS)
NEC 3520AW DVDR/RW DRIVE
CREATIVE NX ULTRA WEBCAM
ASAKA ECLIPSE-62 CASE

Rig Used for:

Gaming
DvD Authoring via NeroVision
The occasional linux distro

Bit put off as my friend says the 3800X2 in his view is the sempron model for the x2's as it is only meant as a entry level product for duel core while the 4000+ is still considered a high end single core cpu

 

[squiffy]

4400+ has dropped 50% in price since getting it. Mates talking out of his hole.

Do you do any DVD shrinking/music encoding?

 

[crazyswede]

I one way your friend is right...

The 4000 has one core running at 2.4Ghz with 1mb L2 cache.

The 3800 x2 has 2 cores each running at 2.0Ghz with 512kb L2 cache.

So the 3800x2 would be much slower than the 4000 when running software not written for dual processors.

 

[meggy-vengeance]

Don't listen to his bull****, they're both crackin'. The x2 will be ar more futureproof for stuff like vista etc.

 

[Andromeda1983]

Bought the 4000+ since use more games than authoring and i dont use many dual core appz.... and of course the benefit is by the time i need to buy a new cpu again there will be something better than the x2 and i can buy the x2 cheaper...

 

[FrankJH]

I one way your friend is right...

The 4000 has one core running at 2.4Ghz with 1mb L2 cache.

The 3800 x2 has 2 cores each running at 2.0Ghz with 512kb L2 cache.

So the 3800x2 would be much slower than the 4000 when running software not written for dual processors.

"Much slower" - dont be silly , in performance terms very few applications will show any difference and if you chose to overclock its highly likely that performance gap - if noticable at all - would actually shrink

 

[crazyswede]

"Much slower" - dont be silly , in performance terms very few applications will show any difference and if you chose to overclock its highly likely that performance gap - if noticable at all - would actually shrink

Sorry, I should not have said "much slower", just slower. The extra 400Mhz and double the L2 cache would be better in most applications.

 

[FrankJH]

Bought the 4000+ since use more games than authoring and i dont use many dual core appz.... and of course the benefit is by the time i need to buy a new cpu again there will be something better than the x2 and i can buy the x2 cheaper...

While I can understand your logic, its more likely that as your system is s939 that this will have gone out of circulation completely as AMD have moved to a new incompatible socket format, you will have to change mobo's as well.

Because of this AMD have already reduced the amounts fully on their S939 chips and they wont get any cheaper (unless someone has not reduced their prices yet )