[mythtv-users] Any poing in going from 3000+ to 3400+ Seperon

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 11/28/06, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dont want to have to change the motherboard because I would also
> probably have to get a new flower fan and possibly memory.
>
> Flower fan?

I think he means the fan for the CPU heatsink.
>
> You wouldn't need new memory if you went to a socket 939 board.
>
> I just upgraded my main desktop from an Athlon 2000+ (socket A) to  
> an Athlon64 3500+ (socket 939) and the total cost for motherboard +  
> cpu was on the order of 90 GBP. The DDR 333 memory I already had  
> works fine, so whatever you've got in your socket 754 board will  
> also be fine.
>
>   I thought
> the Athon64s were not being made any more ( dabs.com in the UK don't
> sell them) but will look into this further.
>
> You should still be able to find socket 754 Athlon64s, but the best  
> you can get is still only 3700+ ( http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/ 
> desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADA3700AEP5AR). I'm not sure that's all  
> that great an upgrade for you. Socket 939 would allow you to go as  
> far as an FX-60 or a X2 4800+ (not sure how much benefit dual cores  
> would be - you'd want to look into that).
>

Socket 939 gives you a dual-channel memory controller (that's the  
only real difference between 754 and 939), so he might want to go  
with a matched pair of DIMMS to take advantage of that, but certainly  
wouldn't have to.

The 939-pin Opteron I60 is available in the US for $150, and will  
overclock easily to FX-60 speeds. Even with stock clock rates it is  
an incredible deal on a dual-core CPU IMHO.

Socket 939 mobos are pretty cheap these days, as they are being  
supplanted by the AM2s, the ones with AGP graphics ports are getting  
really inexpensive.



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