Help me decide new cpu or not?

[Reapsy]

I've just seen I can buy a socket 939 AMD Opteron 185, 2.6GHz for £215. Is it worth it or a waste of money?

[Nick Smith]

no, its not worth it...

might aswell buy C2D + board + DDR2 ram at that price

[SiM]

Waste of money... better of changing to C2D or AM3 later...

[staffsMike]

for that price you can get 2gb or dewcent overclocking ram, a cdc e4300 and an overclocking board..so no its not lol

[Reapsy]

Ok from the same shop I can get

Asus PB5
E4300
Corsair 2048MB PC5400 675 MHz

comes too £215

Would I be able to overclock to 3ghz with that ram or would I need the faster PC6400 stuff?

[Sprite]

Ok from the same shop I can get

Asus PB5
E4300
Corsair 2048MB PC5400 675 MHz

comes too £215

Would I be able to overclock to 3ghz with that ram or would I need the faster PC6400 stuff?

333x9=3GHz RAM at 2:1 would be 666Mhz so you should be fine.

Where are you shopping btw ?

[Reapsy]

333x9=3GHz RAM at 2:1 would be 666Mhz so you should be fine.

Where are you shopping btw ?

Oh right thats good coz the pc6400 is more expensive

http://www.komplett.co.uk

[Crossbow]

E4300 = £73
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=532081

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro = £12
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=340995

Gigabyte GA 965P-DS3 = £70
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=437659

GeIL 2GB PC6400C4 Ultra Low Latency = £73 (incl del)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...-058-GL&tool=3

And overclock the lot? G

[Flewis]

You dont need 800MHz ram, 667MHz will get you to 3GHz, 667MHz cas4 will overclock a certain amount esp. if u relax the timings.
You only really need 800MHz ram for the 6400/20 and 6300/20 or for super high clocks with top end cooling.

[Sprite]

Get some multiple orders at ebuyer with google checkout going

[Reapsy]

Hmm was just reading about that new intel quad core chip running at 3.33Ghz. I think I might wait and see how much one of those costs. I never did have much luck when it comes to overclocking anyway.

[aidanjt]

Price just dropped to £350 last month, wont go down again till about Q3/4.

[jimbouk]

If you are wanting to upgrade and spend even less then the S939 AMD X2 4200+ can be had for £82.24 at scan. That'd give you a performance boost without having to dump your old system.

Depends whether you are going for a very top of the line system or just wanting one that will do everything fine but not quite as zippy.

[Reapsy]

Well I'm after 10k or more in 3dmark 06 I don't think the 4200+ is gunna get me there.

[jimbouk]

Fair enough, if you're going for benchmark scores then C2D all the way.

[Reapsy]

Well I guess I should have said I'm after a better framerate in my game of choice DDO but as I can't bench it I was using 3dmark as a guide. Getting around 5k in 3dmark 06 atm with the 3200+