HereComesPete wrote:
their 2.4 p4 with 512 of ram pos dell .
HaHa, that it *exactly* what I have. Sadly the Ram type in mine (Rambus) at >100 pounds/gig is more expensive to replace than the Mobo+cpu+fresh ram and would actually almost cover a new PCIe gfx aswell (still in teh AGP dark ages, me) so just waiting on the <s>missus</s> boss to approve a budget for a new one
Intel 45nm stuff is available now, the current specs are totally compatible (on paper, anyway)
Right now, the specs as in the thread should still offer best price/performance, but the 45nm chips will run cooler and faster so bear that in mind if you're trying to make a silent machine or something.
Anyone got any thoughts* on the athlonXP X2 dual cores? specifically the x2 +4800 and x2 +5000 ?
Although....searching for socket 939 CPUs still brings up all socket AM2 CPUs as well, and i definatly think they arent compatible. ho hum. Maybe one of those opterons, they can be had for cheapish. Meh, i dunno.
I'm considering a stopgap upgrade (I'm stuck with socket 939, currently running an athlon64 4000+ at 2.4Ghz) until i can afford to take the plunge into Quad core intel joy. Or until AMD pulls its finger out and produces a half decent processor (Yeah, i know, I know). Any thoughts?
*LOLAMD! is not what i want to hear, i bought it back when they were quite good.
I'm still on a S939 AMD64 3700+, and with the addition of a 8800GTS my rig is still perfectly good for all the games I play. Oblivion is the only one so far where I've not been able to have everything on max, so I don't really see the need for me to upgrade at the moment. Too busy spending money on various trips instead.
The 939 dual cores are rather clockable* though and go up to the 4800+ according to the AMD website.
If you can get your hands on an Opteron Dual Core 100 series 939 running at 2600mhz, such as the OSA185 model (or clock up the OSA180 model), you'll have pretty much the best 939 chip available.
*Well, the opterons in the family are, as well as the 4800.
Edit, if you're running a single core, the dual 4800 will still be a fairly substantial improvement.
Lateralus wrote:a 8800GTS my rig is still perfectly good for all the games I play. Oblivion is the only one so far where I've not been able to have everything on max
I did pretty well with Oblivion on a 6600, there should be some tweaks posted in its thread - even with the extra quality texture downloads it played pretty well for me once I turned the grass down, more because it pissed me off than anything.
Thinking about it, I think it may have been around the time of Oblivion that I went from 6600GT to 8800GTS, so maybe it was better after that. Think I was still on a 3200 CPU though.
HaHa, that it *exactly* what I have. Sadly the Ram type in mine (Rambus) at >100 pounds/gig is more expensive to replace than the Mobo+cpu+fresh ram and would actually almost cover a new PCIe gfx aswell (still in teh AGP dark ages, me) so just waiting on the <s>missus</s> boss to approve a budget for a new one
I did pretty well with Oblivion on a 6600, there should be some tweaks posted in its thread - even with the extra quality texture downloads it played pretty well for me once I turned the grass down, more because it pissed me off than anything.
