Finally going 939 - 4000 or 3700?

[Nutbusta]

How cheap am I?

Just bought a second hand MSI Neo2Plat for £25 and I'm um'ming and ah'ing about weather to buy:

San D 3700+ for £62
San D 4000+ for £82

I know the 4000 runs at 2.4 so I guess that the 3700 runs at 2.2 but the MSI is known to be quite a high clocking board so am I likely to see worth while improvements in the overall overclock?

Trouble is, my way of thinking is that when manufacturing on a new process speed binning is essential and the differance between the fasterst and slowest chips is massive but on such a mature process the differences seem to be minimal. Is this the case or as I way off?

I know it's only £20 diference but times are tough and I probably shouldn't even be spending that.

Any thoughts?

 

[Nutbusta]

Very refreshing to get the voice of reason mate. I was expecting "It's only a score mate - stay in this friday"

Ha, I would stay in this friday but it's my B'day and I have an evening with my mates, my GF and all her hot friends which I'm not gonna miss

And if I get the 3700 I could get a Freezer 64 pro too

 

[Nutbusta]

3700+ clocked to 2.9ghz 1.475v get it

That's really tempting me & I'm not scared of putting a few volts through either. My Sempron runs on 1.6v with a Zalman cooler. 34degrees at the mo but hits 54 when loaded. My XP used to hit 62-63 !!!

So, do peeps reckon that they mostly clock the same?

Is it as I said and the difference between the best and worst chips smaller with a more mature manufacturing process?

 

[Nutbusta]

Hmmm, if it's just 100mhz I may well go for the 3700. Neither are exactly cutting edge and it should still be a good upgrade.

Slightly off topic, as you can see from my sig I run a 256k Sempron at 2.6 and X850XTPE. Am I likely to get a fair improvement gaming wise going to a San D at 2.8? or am I GPU bound?

 

[Nutbusta]

3700 isn't a dead cert for 2.8 or 2.9, though you should be able to hit at least 2.75

To be fair you're using a Scythe Ninja which although quiet isn't the best performing heatsink. How old is it? What sorta volts is that on?

Ya the 4000+ oem's are all sweet clockers from OCUK atm. Could well be FX57's rebadged. Mines at 2.95ghz at 1.375v.

Thats real good though. Isn't that actually below stock volts? Would be a bit of a improvement on my Sempron at 2.6 running a toasty 1.6v

3700+ clocked to 2.9ghz 1.475v get it

The difference is clearly the volts required to get it near 3Ghz. Is this a fairly new chip young lad?

As DataMonkey suggests, it's only a budget system and for 100MHz I could do with leaving the £20 in the bank.

Plus the 3700 has 50p if I buy it before Thursday in this weeks specials. Bargain tastic