Socket 939 sweet spot?

[Devlish]

Lo, just doing an upgrade, whats the current 939 sweet spot, best value for cash? Im leaning towards a 3700 San Diego, any thoughts?

 

[Zefan]

Totally depends on your needs. Do you overclock? Do you want dual core, etc etc...

 

[dale1uk]

The 3700sd is a very good chip, with almost all clocking well. But like above it depends on what you use your pc for, any encoding or multi-tasking etc and a dual core would be better.

 

[PinkFloyd]

3700 san diego / X2 3800 manchster. Depending on whether you multitask or not.

 

[Devlish]

Mostly gaming, some encoding and burning but never at the same time so I was going to go for the single core. Going to check out the Manchester though.

 

[megatron]

Excellent time to go 64-bit, there are some sensibly priced CPUs out there but I believe the dual core are still closer to £200 whereas single core goes for nearer £100. U can get single core venice 3000+ 512Kb cache for £61 unfortunatly not here. Clock that to 2.5Ghz (which I clocked mine to), and it wont hold back a x800 series too much. I upgraded to opteron for 1Kb cache and 2.7Ghz overclock. Its stable even at 60'c with 1.6v in this mini heatwave.

However Conroe is supposedly quite a bit faster than dual core AMD, but requires DDR2.

 

[wellibob]

Daul core is a must if you multi task, and most people do to a certain degree... i havnt gone daul core yet as im lucky and have muliple pc`s at my disposal