CPU advice for socket 939

[Disheveled DrFreeze]

Add in the price difference with the fact there was no nForce chipset and the Athlon takes the p4 to the pier with cement shoes, puts a bullet in it's head and lights it on fire then pushes it over after roasting marshmallows.

hey, i didnt say i prefered the P4 to the athlon Xp, i did not, i had an Nforce 2 board with an xp 2600 myself , its just that you said an athlon XP routinely outdoes a P4 clocked 1 GHz faster, which just isnt true, thats what i was responding too.

and yeah, tell me about the price difference, back in 2003 i was drooling over the newly released P4 3.0 GHz, the first 800 mhz northwood, hyperthreading too i believe, i wanted that badboy, then i ended up going for an athlon XP 2600+ for a quarter of the price not to mention not having to get a $300 specialist mobo

i did love my good old amd machine, when my mom decides to upgrade, that cpu and vid card (the almighty GF 4 Ti 4800se) will come back to me, and be put up on the wall in a frame

*allright, enough geeking out*

[MapleBuster]

Get a decent overclockable 939 SLI board for now, maybe add some more Ram. In the future look to twin up your GF card, then get a Dual Core Athlon a while later. Should keep you going performance wise for a few years. An added advantage would be the low cost of the GPU and CPU down the line.

[melancholy]

Get a decent overclockable 939 SLI board for now, maybe add some more Ram. In the future look to twin up your GF card, then get a Dual Core Athlon a while later. Should keep you going performance wise for a few years. An added advantage would be the low cost of the GPU and CPU down the line.

Why would he want to buy another 939 motherboard? If he was going to update his motherboard, buying another 939 would be a terrible idea.

[MapleBuster]

Lower cost mainly. Also, getting a newer board would offer very little benefit in this case, there really isn't any need to go for anything newer. If the idea is to overclock his present CPU, add up to 3 gig of RAM whilst adding a second GF7 card and overclock everything available via the board, the SLI-capable 939 boards I've seen are all capable of this. By the time he picks up his multicore Athlon in a couple of years time, it shouldn't cost more than a few dollars

Hell, I'm sure I could dream up the looby of all PC rigs given an infinite budget, but I don't think that is the point of the thread really.