Intel 3200Mhz 540j VS Intel 3200Mhz 541

zinc

New member
Last night I was asked by a member of the family if I would build a Intel system as cheap as possible for them and the price they want to spend on the CPU is around £70 max.

They are interested in buying the Intel 541 I own the Intel 540J and they seem impressed with the speed.

Does anyone know what the difference between these two CPU's are?

What one is better and why as they are the same 3.2Ghz?

Thanks
 
I aint got time to look but is one HT and one non-HT?

If I were building a budget rig for a family member I'd deffo go AMD A64 - very cheap and far more value for money :)
 
Kempez said:
I aint got time to look but is one HT and one non-HT?

If I were building a budget rig for a family member I'd deffo go AMD A64 - very cheap and far more value for money :)

I THINK you might be right with the 541 supporting HTT. But I would go with what kemp said and get an athlon 64 system, if you check out the thread started by ham, hes just built an entire pretty-decent PC for £200 although it is sempron based
 
They will be playing games on the machine but there main work will involve a lot of multitasking.

I did just find a AMD Athlon 64 (ADA3700BNBOX) 3700 CPU Skt 939 San Diego Retail for under £70 do you know if these any good for multitasking?

Just had a look and it seems that the 541 has Intel® 64 and the 540J dosen't not sure what Intel® 64 is though?

But they both have Hyper-Threading.
 
zinc said:
They will be playing games on the machine but there main work will involve a lot of multitasking.

I did just find a AMD Athlon 64 (ADA3700BNBOX) 3700 CPU Skt 939 San Diego Retail for under £70 do you know if these any good for multitasking?

Just had a look and it seems that the 541 has Intel® 64 and the 540J dosen't not sure what Intel® 64 is though?

But they both have Hyper-Threading.

A 3700+ is no slouch, but depending on your definition of "a lot" a dual core may be better. Intel 64 is Intel's 64 bit extensions to the X86 instruction set.
 
How heavy is the multi-tasknig? Is it watching a video whilst surfing or is it like having the Macromedia Suite open whilst photoshopping, listening to iTunes, surfing the web and on MSN?

If it's heavy loading on multi-tasking you're better off with a native dual core like an X2 or Core2Duo

If it's lighter use like the 1st example then an A64 will do you proud.

As for the J - ye it appears to be the addition of 64bit support :)
 
Its more like the second one as they want to do a lot of video editing Etc.

My problem is they only have £70 to spend on the CPU max. All there old stuff has to be replaced, motherboard, CPU, memory, PSU, video card, they might keep there case and there on a very small budget for all.

I worked it out that all they have to spend is.

CPU = £70 Intel 541 or a D 805 (overclocked) ?

Motherboard = £40 MSI 945GZM3-L ?

PSU = £23 ???

Video card = £30 ???

Memory = £80 Crucial CT6472Z40B x 2?

I said I would, but why me. Any ideas would be really appreciated?
 
The Pentium D 805 is a great cheap chip for the price, that's the uber cheap P4 dually isn't it? I've heard awesome things about it, i'd probably recommend that seeing as it looks that you may actually need the true dual core for what your client plans to do.
 
Looks like I will have to try and keep to there budget.

What do you think about this?

It is all within budget.

Motherboard MSI K8NNeo4.F SKT939 = £43.91

CPU AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3800+ = £69.73

Memory Crucial 512mb = £41.51

Video used ATI X550 256mb 64mb Vram PCI-E = £20

Hard drive Seagate ide ATA 160gb = £39.68

What do you think about the above setup for what they need?

PSU cheap as possible to run this, have you got any suggestions please?

Apologies for asking about AMD stuff in a Intel thread.

Thanks

zinc
 
Create another thread if u want m8y in the amd, u`ll get double coverage ;)

It`s a real shame u can`t stretch from £70 to ~£95 and get an x2 3800+, I like these mucho.
 
lol dont worry about that, its on topic. i would say 512 isnt enough memory, windows just straight up sucks on 512. Ham is selling 2x512mb sticks of OCZ that would fit the bill for only £18 more
 
£25 more for the other CPU is to much, I have already put them on there limit.

Ham not heard of them who are they and are they in the UK?
 
zinc said:
£25 more for the other CPU is to much, I have already put them on there limit.

Ham not heard of them who are they and are they in the UK?

He's a forum member.

An ADM 3200+ is only like £40
 
Know you said ham is a member,I should of thought of that. LOL

I just thought for what there going to use it for they would need a 3800.

Do you think the difference in speed would make much difference of a difference to them if I got them the 3200 instead?
 
The only difference between a 3200 and a 3800 are .4ghz, which could easily be nullified by a bit of minor clocking, so you might as well just get the 3200+
 
An update on this build. I have know been given a max of £350 to build the PC.

What do you think about this list?

Motherboard MSI K8NNeo4.F SKT939 = £43.91

CPU AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3800+ = £69.73

Crucial 1GB kit (512MBx2) DDR PC3200= £71.79

MSI NX7300GT-TD256EH GF = £57.22

Hard drive Seagate ide ATA 160gb = £39.68

That leaves about £60 after the p&p on a descent psu any suggestions?

I was thinking about the Hiper 580W Type-R Modular PSU = £59.93 but I have just read some where that they are not as good as they could be so I was looking at this one instead the OCZ ModStream 520W Modular PSU = £63.01

Does the above build need changing anywhere before I send them the list?
 
Back
Top