Is a Athlon64(939) 512kb 3XXX that much better than 2.4c p4?

[mayro]

Im considering upgradeing but with the dual cores comeing i really wouldnt want to waste money. How big of differance is their between the Athlon 64 {939} around the 3400 mark VRS the 2.4c pentium 4?

 

[bosox188]

It is WAY better, blows away a 2.4C P4.

 

[Ames]

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/socket_939-16.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64-3800_7.html

Some benchmarks.

 

[mayro]

so about 20% faster....

500 now... or 500 in 6 months?

 

[bosox188]

I'm gonna guess you have a 2.4C. I'd say $500 in 6 months.

 

[ailevation]

You can probably live with that 2.4C for another few months which is enough for you to save your dough on a huge upgrade. Those 2.4C's have good potential to overclock too. My cousin OC'ed his 2.4C to 3.0C on stock cooling... he idles like 45C and load at like 55C, which is okay since his shit didn't die yet and he has had it for about 2 years now. Oh yeah, this is all on stock cooling with his side case off . But hey 2.4C @ 3.0C= WOW!

 

[mayro]

Yes, the more and more i think the more sense it makes. They have been saying that 2 gigs will be the recomended ram size when longhorn comes outs so now that 2 gig rams are being made it seems us people who dont care about getting them last 5 fps and want to save 1000 bucks should wait.

*Dual Core Amd*
*2x 2gig ram ddr2*--supposably much better than current ddr2
*Ati 520* The around 400ish one.....
*NO SOUND BLASTER*

You cant have PAT enabled with a overclocked board. atleast with these asus... even though some stuff runs faster when i overclock... i find it better to leave it alone as the PAT gives almost 1k more memory under that pat tester.

 

[ailevation]

I think Asus posted a link other day benchmarking the performance of having 2 Gig of ram in your system... results were horrific with todays hardware. I think at the end of the article if you wanted to have 2 Gig that's running at 3200 speeds, you'd have to get four 512 PC3200 sticks, for performance sakes.

 

[Asus]

You can have 2 1GB sticks and it wouldn't kill performance like that article but the timings are generally much higher on those than 512MB sticks. Not to mention they cost a lot more!