Upgrade to AMD 64 X2 question

[G]

I have a MSI K8N Neo4-SLI motherboard and recently upgraded my memory
to 2 GB and graphics card to a 7900GT. I have a AMD 64 3000+
currently installed and am looking to upgrade to a dual core
processor. It is my understanding the X2 4800s are the last of the
939s. How soon are they ending production on these? I noticed newegg
isn't selling Retail versions at the moment. Is that due to supply?
or is AMD no longer making the retail version? I would prefer the
retail version due to longer warranty.

Should I go for the X2 4800 or should I look for best bang for the
buck say a X2 4400?

Thanks

G

 

[Geoff]

Good luck getting one, most places are out of stock and the few I did find
are charging like $700+ for a boxed version.

-g

 

[philo]

I have a MSI K8N Neo4-SLI motherboard and recently upgraded my memory
to 2 GB and graphics card to a 7900GT. I have a AMD 64 3000+
currently installed and am looking to upgrade to a dual core
processor. It is my understanding the X2 4800s are the last of the
939s. How soon are they ending production on these? I noticed newegg
isn't selling Retail versions at the moment. Is that due to supply?
or is AMD no longer making the retail version? I would prefer the
retail version due to longer warranty.

Should I go for the X2 4800 or should I look for best bang for the
buck say a X2 4400?

Well I got an X2-3800 when they were still quite new as they were pricey!
Works great with the 2 gigs of RAM I also bought.

I doubt you'd see too much difference between a 4400 and a 4800 but I'd
still
get the fastest one you can afford.

The machine I built is used primarily for PhotoshopCS2
and dual booting XP x32 / XP x64

If you are now using XP x32
you may want to buy the cheaper CPU and spend some of your savings on XP
x64


Although the difference was not obvious at first...
XP x64 does seem to run Photoshop CS2 better

 

[Mike T.]

I have a MSI K8N Neo4-SLI motherboard and recently upgraded my memory
to 2 GB and graphics card to a 7900GT. I have a AMD 64 3000+
currently installed and am looking to upgrade to a dual core
processor. It is my understanding the X2 4800s are the last of the
939s. How soon are they ending production on these? I noticed newegg
isn't selling Retail versions at the moment. Is that due to supply?
or is AMD no longer making the retail version? I would prefer the
retail version due to longer warranty.

Should I go for the X2 4800 or should I look for best bang for the
buck say a X2 4400?

Thanks

That depends. What is the system used for? You aren't going to get much of
a performance increase given your current system and potential upgrade paths
listed, UNLESS you are constantly multi-tasking. For example, your system
as is should run all current games and Windows Vista just fine, and you will
see no performance increase by swapping just the CPU. But if you are
constantly compiling code while running office apps and blah blah blah . . .
then you might benefit by swapping CPUs. -Dave

 

[Conor]

I have a MSI K8N Neo4-SLI motherboard and recently upgraded my memory
to 2 GB and graphics card to a 7900GT. I have a AMD 64 3000+
currently installed and am looking to upgrade to a dual core
processor. It is my understanding the X2 4800s are the last of the
939s. How soon are they ending production on these?

I think they already have. I can't find anyone with a X2 4800 for sale
in the UK online and it's been like that for a few weeks. Got mine off
Ebay in the end.

Should I go for the X2 4800 or should I look for best bang for the
buck say a X2 4400?

At least with the 4800 you know you've upgraded as far as you can so in
the future when it gets too slow, you're looking at a new system.

 

[OSbandito]

I think they already have. I can't find anyone with a X2 4800 for sale
in the UK online and it's been like that for a few weeks. Got mine off
Ebay in the end.

At least with the 4800 you know you've upgraded as far as you can so in
the future when it gets too slow, you're looking at a new system.

Wow, you guys are really purists. I'd sell my mother to get a sys. like
G already has.

 

[johns]

I would go with the 4400. Good chance the 4800 might not
be BIOS compatible, and you would wind up with a kludge
if it took a BIOS upgrade to get you there. The advantage
which I have tested ... dual core vs single core .. is that
one processor seems to offload background operations
while the other is involved in something like a game. So
you do get game speed improvement. You can see that
in a huge game like Gothic 3 which will use up most of
your 2 gigs of ram during the game. The 2nd core will
keep it from going to paging off the hard drive, and the
screen getting jumpy. Also, the 939 chipset has a problem
running more than 2 gigs of ram ... ddr400 will drop back
to ddr333, and the socket AM2 seems to deal with that,
plus it runs ddr2. Save your money for that as an upgrade,
and that will preserve your 7950GT as a keeper in the
next upgrade. I"ve done the same upgrade, plus I added
2 more gigs of ram to stop any page-file access if I
can. That LOOKS like a huge speed increase in
gameing.

johns