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X2 4200+ & X2 4400+

thedemon13666

thedemon13666

thedemon13666

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I know the only difference between the 2 processors is the size of the system cache

how much would that affect playing a very high end game such as oblivion?

the other specs would be:

geforce 7900GTX
2 gig of ram
 
Personally, I would drop the 4200 and go for a 3800. The only difference here is the 200MHz clock speed.

The 3800 is a great clocker - mine is running completely stable at 2500MHz with air cooling - putting it in perspective, faster than the default clock of the 4800 (although this has the extra cache). Save yourself £50 and do that. If you've never OCed before, don't worry about it, it was my first go above.

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Good luck with your build :) !
 
Personally I don't know why anybody would get a 4200+. Five minutes of overclocking makes up the difference between the two chips. If I were buying I'd go for a 4400+. You can up the speed of the 3800+ but no amount of BIOS magic will get you more cache.
4400+ > 3800+ > 4400+ > 4800+
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Personally I don't know why anybody would get a 4200+. Five minutes of overclocking makes up the difference between the two chips. If I were buying I'd go for a 4400+. You can up the speed of the 3800+ but no amount of BIOS magic will get you more cache.
4400+ > 3800+ > 4400+ > 4800+
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what i was thinking. The 4800+ is a shed load more money though
 
BS Dave said:
heard of dividers realscot?

multi's don't really mean anything when you use them.
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It will if he wants to run higher 1:1 settings...
My 4200 is sitting at 2.7 (250*11, 2-2-2-5, 1:1 TCCD-F)
 
no it doesn't.

if you have a 10 multi and run on a 6/5 divider 200/167 or ddr 400/333, you effectively have a 12 multi.

Clock the htt up to 240 and you be running your ram at ddr400 again.

if you wanna run your ram faster just change the multi to something like 10/9 and you'll be able to get an overclock with fast memory speeds.

just takes a little bit of maths is all
 
I don't dispute that at all, I'd just rather have my RAM at 240/480 than 200/400, IE 1:1


Assuming your RAM will take that though... Samsung TCCD-F will, as will my CH-5
 
my point is your ram is already on a divider anyway, it's 11 times slower than the clock speed.

you can still get your ram to run at 240, you just need to fart around for a bit getting the right combination of dividers, but if it gonna save you a load of money on your cpu, it's worth doing i reckon

Also dividers don't have the same impact on a64 as they do on old athlons. memroy bandwidth scales with cpu speed. With A 64 it's all about cpu speed
 
if you have planned your mobo and ram combo well then yes it makes no sense to get a 4200 over a 3800

however some boards and ram are tricky to say the least and even though both parts are premium they just refuse to work well together.

In my opinion its research and a little luck (all hardware oc'ing requires luck after all) that you get a decent week of fabrication etc

........a bad week and you wont get anywhere, the same week +1 and you could be 300Mhz better off
 
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