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97thruhiker:
Yeah its a little frustrating as a little over a year ago the 939 socket on AMD motherboards were all the rage.  Additionally that 4000 series was selling for over $400.  Well I'm not to worried about the phasing out of the 939 socket as it still is pretty widely followed in the Athlon 64FX series processors and I already have it on my current motherboard.  I was just wondering about the performance upgrade going from a 3200 to a 4000.

Chris:
I've really stopped worrying about sockets.  Maybe I just don't upgrade often enough, but by the time I'm ready to upgrade either the socket, memory, or some other aspect has changed so much that a processor swap won't do.  The last time I was actually able to upgrade a system via processor swap was on a 486.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: 97thruhiker on July 29, 2006, 08:53:12 pm ---I was just wondering about the performance upgrade going from a 3200 to a 4000.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/page24.html#opengl

if it helps.

stephenp1983:
Socket 939 is being replaced with AM2, I think however that it will be around for awhile longer as new sockets sometimes take awhile to get up to par.  The newest processors from Intel however are s uppose to surpass the amd ones in performance.  That's one of the reasons you saw the recent price drop.  I would stay with socket 939 and look at one of the dual core processors as they just took a big price drop.  If your building a new system them look into the core 2 duo by intel atm.

97thruhiker:

--- Quote from: stephenp1983 on July 31, 2006, 12:29:38 pm ---Socket 939 is being replaced with AM2, I think however that it will be around for awhile longer as new sockets sometimes take awhile to get up to par.  The newest processors from Intel however are s uppose to surpass the amd ones in performance.  That's one of the reasons you saw the recent price drop.  I would stay with socket 939 and look at one of the dual core processors as they just took a big price drop.  If your building a new system them look into the core 2 duo by intel atm.

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Yes I plan on sticking with the motherboard I have as its less then a year old.  I really wanted that 4000 series processor last fall when I built this thing but did not want to drop the money on it (had to buy all the other pieces for computer at the same time).  Now that its less then $140 I'm considering changing / upgrading.


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on July 31, 2006, 12:22:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: 97thruhiker on July 29, 2006, 08:53:12 pm ---I was just wondering about the performance upgrade going from a 3200 to a 4000.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/page24.html#opengl

if it helps.

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Thanks for the link

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