Aww, then a good replacement would be?Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
Aww, then a good replacement would be?Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
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also, I am not sure what graphics card it is, but I was reading about one that has a special driver for dual core machines that transferes phisics off the graphics card and on to the unused core when running graphics intenisive programs like games. something like a 30% increase in a quite a few gaming benchmarks.Originally Posted by Seedler
rather than an FX chip, get an opteron 100 series chip- it fits on 939s, and overclocks like crazy. up to Opteron 154 is singal core, everything above that is dual core. about the same price if you compare Ghz, but the Opteron is much higher quality and will most likely overclock more.Originally Posted by Seedler
The 4000+ is effectively a renamed S939 FX53, except that the 4000+ uses 90nm technology and the FX53 never got beyond 130nm technology.Originally Posted by Seedler
The FX55 would certainly give better performance, but how much I wouldn't like to say. In Gaming benchmarks, the FX60 gives about 4.5% improvement over the FX57, I would imagine the same would be true when comparing the FX55 with the 4000+. There's a big jump in power consumption between the 4000+ and the FX55 - 85W to 104W.
Performance difference between the 4000+ and the Opteron 150? Zero. However, the Opteron is likely to run slightly cooler (marginal) or overclock better. Worth considering since the price should be about the same, about £5 difference in UK.
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Sorry to hear it.Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
K then...whatever brand you can get, make sure it runs tight timings (i.e. 2,3,2,5 @1T or better)...the 90nm AMDs thrive on fast RAM.
Since you are getting one of the premier OCing motherboards why not just go for a nominally slower chip and plan on clocking it?
The money you save could go towards better cooling.
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No Hardrive? is he gonna use his current one?Originally Posted by Seedler
I'd take swap out the dual-core with a sata 3.0gb/s hardrive. He'd see faster load times with that.
Last edited by Wolfmight; 03-30-2006 at 01:55 PM.
Okay, thx for replies, the parts are coming in soon.
Decided to go with Oppy 150 for CPU.
Should get some nice benchmark results from this beast.
Biostar XE T5
i5-750 @ 4.0 GHZ stable (CM Hyper 212)
2 x 2GB Cosair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHZ
Radeon 5850 @ 866/1254MHZ
Intel X25-M in RAID 0
WD Caviar Black 2TB in RAID 0
3 x Asus 25.5" VW266H LCD [Eyefinity]
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