Swapping P4 3gig 800 for 3200 64 bit
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If going amd64 i would go for socket939 however there aren't a great deal of good mobos ready yet soI would wait a bit. A64 is a good move though IMO
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O right sorry. I'm not sure which is worth more....
I have an Asus K8V which is a Via chipset board, I have yet to find the max for this system as I'm taking it slow so as not to hurt it in any way, the 300Mhz difference between stock and 2300 is very amazing. Mines at 2200 atm and it's so fast its silly 
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I've heard some horror stories about the nForce3 250 chipsets and the 150s dont support the full HT of the CPU. I would say go for a Via 800 chipset board and upgrade when the new ones mature a little and more become available with better reviews.
The Asus board I have is great and seems to have a fair amount of clocking options on it. Have a look around, the Abit MAX board is good also but has an issue with Corsair RAM so that's the only thing that put me off it really.
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.I've heard some horror stories about the nForce3 250 chipsets and the 150s dont support the full HT of the CPU. I would say go for a Via 800 chipset board and upgrade when the new ones mature a little and more become available with better reviews.
The Asus board I have is great and seems to have a fair amount of clocking options on it. Have a look around, the Abit MAX board is good also but has an issue with Corsair RAM so that's the only thing that put me off it really.
Boardy
got my AMD 64bit today, its a work computer but bought just for me 
I was given £1500 so i chose the components i wnated, tho i decided not to abuse this and i bought the best combo, an AMD64 3000, 1 gig of Geil Value PC 3200 and an asus mobo (cant remember which, about mid range)
What i think of it:
Its a nice machine, it runs rather like my P4 in windows, much smoother than my other Athlon XPs.
I expected it to be a good bencher, i downloaded and installed aquamark and , also Powerstrip.
My CPU wasnt overclocked, so stock 2000mhz, i clocked my Saphire 9800Pro @ 435/380 (first settings i used) this is 20mhz faster than i run on my 9800Pro (damn retail ATI chips, shud of got the saphire)
Anyway, the AMD 64 scored a reasonable 45k, not as much as I was expecting, compared to my P4 currently running at 3.6 ghz, the ram running at 192 FSB and the gfx card @ 435/360 i score 48k.
Surely the 3k loss in creds cant be down to no dual channel on the 64bit? I think perhaps the A64's have been overated maybe? but thats just my opinion. They are definately an improvement over XPs, windows is now much nicer to use, but benchmarking on a 32bit O/S, my P4 kills it, even with all the crappy dividers im running at the moment.
I was given £1500 so i chose the components i wnated, tho i decided not to abuse this and i bought the best combo, an AMD64 3000, 1 gig of Geil Value PC 3200 and an asus mobo (cant remember which, about mid range)
What i think of it:
Its a nice machine, it runs rather like my P4 in windows, much smoother than my other Athlon XPs.
I expected it to be a good bencher, i downloaded and installed aquamark and , also Powerstrip.
My CPU wasnt overclocked, so stock 2000mhz, i clocked my Saphire 9800Pro @ 435/380 (first settings i used) this is 20mhz faster than i run on my 9800Pro (damn retail ATI chips, shud of got the saphire)
Anyway, the AMD 64 scored a reasonable 45k, not as much as I was expecting, compared to my P4 currently running at 3.6 ghz, the ram running at 192 FSB and the gfx card @ 435/360 i score 48k.
Surely the 3k loss in creds cant be down to no dual channel on the 64bit? I think perhaps the A64's have been overated maybe? but thats just my opinion. They are definately an improvement over XPs, windows is now much nicer to use, but benchmarking on a 32bit O/S, my P4 kills it, even with all the crappy dividers im running at the moment.
I never had probs with my XP's running windows I found the P4's that I had to be a hell of a lot slower?? I guess I didn't have an 800fsb P4 it was a 533 but on my p4 3gig my xp2800 would load and run programs faster than it when the p4 machine had no programs loaded so????
I am still awaiting the arrival of my parts should be here tomorrow and going to order my case today (cheers Phil) and rebuilding on thurs night I just hope all goes smoothly and I dont get the blaster worm again as soon as I connect to the internet ffs loool
I am still awaiting the arrival of my parts should be here tomorrow and going to order my case today (cheers Phil) and rebuilding on thurs night I just hope all goes smoothly and I dont get the blaster worm again as soon as I connect to the internet ffs loool
