<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 2:49 PM, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 31, 2008 2:40 PM, Jonathan Black <<a href="mailto:jblack2@smartertek.net">jblack2@smartertek.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>> ><br>> ><br>> Benchmarks for the two chips can be found at:<br>
> <a href="http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2005.html?modelx=33&model1=264&chart=64&model2=260" target="_blank">http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2005.html?modelx=33&model1=264&chart=64&model2=260</a><br>
><br></div>Thanks for that comparison site. I will take a good look at that.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I believe I selected the right Athlon 64. You might double check and see<br>> if that 3000+ is clocked at 2.0 GHZ. If so, I got the right one.<br>
><br>> I'm not sure what I'd do if I were in your shoes. If you are or are<br>> aiming to do a lot of HD in the future, I'd save my money for dual or<br>> quad core.<br>><br></div>Right, I realize this, but then I have to update the mobo also. Right<br>
now I am stuck with a socket 754 mobo, and don't really want to<br>upgrade it at this time.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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<br>i have found athlon 64 3200+ on eBay for $30 to upgrade to, but any faster than that, and the price goes up exponentially, what gives? I would think it would be easy to find inexpensive cpus for this platform.<br>