SN95G5 v2 Question.

azaniah · 24 Oct 2007 at 12:02

At some point I will be building a new system. However, my existing shuttle is running a 3500+ with a couple of 512mb sticks of patriot pc3200.

I am wondering if anyone thinks it worth upgrading the processer to Dual Core 3800+ and sticking more ram in there?

Would cost about £100 but as my memory is running 2-2-2-6 I am wondering if I would see much performance increase.

I am also not 100% sure that my bios can cope with the Dual Core chip.

Thoughts anyone?

Biffa · 24 Oct 2007 at 14:04

Its Socket 939 & supports AMD Athlon 64 /FX /X2 processors so you will be fine.

Sell your existing CPU and ram for about £50 and it will only cost you an extra £40 for 1GB PC3200 plus a 3800+

You will see a performance increase, and you should be able to clock the 3800 to around 2.4Ghz with no negative effects on that shuttle

azaniah · 26 Oct 2007 at 16:40

Arrggh,

I just remembered the whole Stepping / BOM issue with these machines...

How do I find out what stepping a particular processer is without knowing the full product code on the cpu itself?

Bane · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:02

To find out the stepping you can search the check OPN numbers at AMD prcoessor search. Depends on if the etailor includes these details in the sales blurb

azaniah · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:14

I am on a SN95G5v2 and BOM 21, reading the compatability list from shuttle I gather that. E6 stepping on for BOM 26 or later & That "Does not support E3/E4 stepping processor"..

According to that site you linked to - I am pretty much stuffed, and stuff at the current cpu I have (Athlon 64 3500+) or am I vastly missing the point here?