The upgradability of 939?

[ali_james]

Hi there,

After getting my newish sig rig I've thrown together all my old parts over the last few months. I built a rig from my step brother with a 939 3700+, 1.5gb of ram, 7900gto.

The rest of the stuff, a 939 A64 3000+ Winnie core (which I'll OC when I'm home next weekend, used to hit 2.3gig without getting too warm), 1 gig of ddr266, 6800gs, has gone to my mum and partner. He may be working from home a day a week soon and looking to use Catia or something like that on there. I don't have a clue how fast it'll run on there, currently he uses his laptop (old mobile Sempron) for it so I don't imagine it needs all that much horsepower.

Now getting to the point.. Whats going to give the biggest speed boost for the cash outlay for this system? Either 2gb of ddr400.. which is nearly £50? Or a dual core cpu, £loads on ebay? Or a whole cheapish socket 775 rebuild for a bit more than the ram and cpu?

Any input would be great, cheers guys

 

[Ham]

Id spend a little more and get a 775. The low level pentium/cellerys are stupidly cheap and more powerful than teh 939 chips at stock. A little overclock on stock volts make them the leaders.

 

[Toxcity]

You can pick up a 1.6Ghz celly for around £20 and they overclock like crazy.

Plus clock for clock they are hugely quicker then the old AMD chips.

 

[Rastalovich]

ebay a 939 x2 and/or just get some ddr400.

If he`s coping with a sempron, for a day out of the week ur oc`d Athlon will laugh at it. Keep the OS install nice and sensible, and keep that 266 memory at arms length from the pc at all times.

Funny enough I threw together a K7 Athlon 2600+ with 2 gig and a 6600GT for someone to work with. It`s upgrading their K7 1800 or similar, with 1g of 266 or similar. They`re over the moon.

All this speed is relative.

 

[ali_james]

Cheers guys

I think I lean more towards Rast on this one, I don't think the computers ever going to be used too intensely. I'll keep a watch out on ebay and check out some stores for some ram in the coming week.

So hopefully it will do fine for the time being. My sister has been using our ancient 1ghz Athlon Thunderbird for the last decade since we got it I think so anything's an improvement there

Cheers!

 

[ali_james]

I'm thinking a list of something like this...

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Replacement for the old nforce 3 cooler as well which isn't in the greatest condition. 2gb of ram and a, I'm guessing, reasonable power supply. Their fans are very good and thier better psu models seem decent, so I hope they know something about budget psu's. I think a cpu is out of the real scope for value for money.

Tbh, my old 3700+ system ran Crysis fine on low so I'm sure they'll be more than happy with this for a work, msn, word processor jobbie to live in my room while I'm at uni.

Look good?

Cheers!

 

[!TIMMY!]

Thats the ram I run @ 255fsb 3-4-4-7 1T, so its no bad I got a cheap X2 3800 off the bay that i clocked to 2.8ghz and it is great for what I paid for it. Well worth it over the single core.

 

[ionicle]

yeah, go 939, no need for intel, ya shouldnt need that much power, and that would be more expense, you can otherwise avoid

 

[ali_james]

Cheers man, glad that rams got some o/c ability The range is so limited now on ddr

The 3000+ chip o/c's pretty well so I'll see how that rolls for the time being. Cheers

 

[Rastalovich]

hehe I got 2x 3800x2 running at stock pumping out 700 ppd folding each, not folding@ 100% either.

 

[Ham]

hehe I got 2x 3800x2 running at stock pumping out 700 ppd folding each, not folding@ 100% either.

:whack:

Bad rast. OC now.

 

[Rastalovich]

LOL I knew putting it at size 1 wouldn`t be enough.

Currently I`m in a pretty bad situation and the current weather climate isn`t helping.

The room all the pcs are in is not suitable for them really, if I leave too many of them oc`d and folding at the same time, something will melt.

Gotta do something about it tbh. BUT I want to move, so all in good time.