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What best socket A I can expect to find?
- Thread starter Alrik
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Yes a xp3200 is the best CPU for socket A but it will cost more than getting an asrock PCI-E/AGP motherboard AND an Athlon 64 3000.
Tell him to save up for the asrock board and the cheapest A64 he can find, it will give him quite a large boost especially if overclocked.
Tell him to save up for the asrock board and the cheapest A64 he can find, it will give him quite a large boost especially if overclocked.
I went from a 2600 sempron to an xp 3200 and there was a difference but not a huge one especially not in games. Also a 3200 will set you back almost £100 - I sold my year old one for £95 in march 
- and for that kind of money, as pointed out above, you could get a new mobo and 939 cpu that would make more of a difference and if you got the asrock dual sata board it would also give you the option of an upgrade to pci-e over agp in the future.
- and for that kind of money, as pointed out above, you could get a new mobo and 939 cpu that would make more of a difference and if you got the asrock dual sata board it would also give you the option of an upgrade to pci-e over agp in the future.
Tried suggesting a new up-to-date machine numerous times but he didn't care, but he insisted on keeping his current one and upgrading it little by little. I knew they would be expensive but that why I was asking since he says he only get around 30-40 frames in WoW. I knew there wouldn't be much of a difference but just thought it better to ask since he thinks I don't know what I'm talking about :/.
Spec'd him one for around £400 with:
AMD 64 3200+ Was gonna OC it
Asrock mobo
1 Gb memory
500W PSU
7600GT
He would rather spend more then £400 by spending only £100 a time on his current machine rather then all at once on a new build. Tried tons of times showing him all sorts of benchmarks between Athlon XP, Athlon 64 and P4, but in the end I just gave up since he wasn't bothered.
Spec'd him one for around £400 with:
AMD 64 3200+ Was gonna OC it
Asrock mobo
1 Gb memory
500W PSU
7600GT
He would rather spend more then £400 by spending only £100 a time on his current machine rather then all at once on a new build. Tried tons of times showing him all sorts of benchmarks between Athlon XP, Athlon 64 and P4, but in the end I just gave up since he wasn't bothered.
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We'll get him to spend £150 for his first phase of upgrading and he could get a 3700sd that shiould clock to 2.7 without too many problems and an Asrock Dual sata board. He can then use the rest of his exsisting set-up and upgrade from there. Next time he's willing to spend some cash he could ditch the agp 6800 and go pci-e as that board supports both.
Well the only option for any real speed boost is to get a Mobile 2600 or something and overclock it to 2.6ghz+ That would offer almost Athlon64 performance.
But if your not into overclocking, than a 3200+ is your only other option, and it wouldn't be a massive performance increase.
But if your not into overclocking, than a 3200+ is your only other option, and it wouldn't be a massive performance increase.
Don't mean no offense but he wont upgrade. He had £200 to spend and he spent on a 1gb memory from 256mb and a 6800gt from a Ati X700 which wiped out his budget. Stopped him complaining about how crap his Pc is, but I just wanted to check if upgrading from a sempron to a Barton was worth it incase he complained about it again. If he was willing to upgrade to the current generation I wouldn't have a problem since I know what I'm looking at but old Socket A I got no clue since I got no experience with them.
And thanks everyone for the info about the barton etc
And thanks everyone for the info about the barton etc
I do believe OCuk curently have a few of the mobile barton 2600s still going for £80 delivered. Picked one up meself recently, it seems nice and stable while OCing, just my mobo doesn't support 14x multi, so having to run it on 12.5x, but its still chugging along happily at 2.36GHz for now, will be upping it further soon.
my old xp-m2600 was running fine and fully atable at 2.5ghz, very good cpu speed there and quite adequate for even todays games, the 6800 would be the limiting factor.
try and get him a xp-m cpu and overclock it, it will do xp3200 speeds easily fit below stock 3200xp volts so you can have a nice and cool running system.
and with news of the 7600gt appearing on agp soon your mate could still have some life left in his socket A system.
try and get him a xp-m cpu and overclock it, it will do xp3200 speeds easily fit below stock 3200xp volts so you can have a nice and cool running system.
and with news of the 7600gt appearing on agp soon your mate could still have some life left in his socket A system.
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I was using a XP3000 mobile and got it to 2.45ghz or so stabley. That's about on a par with a A64 3200-3400 in terms of superpi. That's quite a boost over a 2600+ sempron, but not even vaguely economical compared to a cheap A64 chip and motherboard.