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single 3700 vs dual 3800

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Hello,

I have heard quite a few times to get a dual 3800 amd over a single 3700.
The reason for this being that the 3800 will run future games *better*/allow more multi tasking/not a massive price change.

I am a *normal* user. When i say normal, i mean, i dont automatically have to have the BEST technology, and have the FASTEST computer ( i use an athlon 1200/512 sdram/64mb gfx card) to play current games, and am fine playing on low settings. I do programing, but am used to having one window open at a time. Im not an overclocker (i have heard both chips are good for overclocking, but this is not an issue here).

I would like to know if a single 3700 chip would be fine for me to use, for 2 - 3 years. Sure it might be a few seconds slower with xp64, or i might have to play a future game with lower settings, but i can cope with that!

Anyone believe a 3700 would be suffice?

regards,

perplex
 
hello and thankyou for your reply.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - 190
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) - 20
Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard - 80
Corsair 2GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x1GB) - 110
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - 260
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU - 80

is my origonal setup i hope to get.
wanted to change from x2 to single to spend the £50 elsewhere!

regards,

perplex
 
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