Which one of this will be better

[Mictlan]

I'm planning on upgrade my home system and I would like to know which one will be a better one.

Currently I have the following setup:

AMD64 Venice 3200+
DFI Venus nForce4 mobo
2*512 MB of Corsair XMS PC3200 @ 400Mhz 2-2-2-5
nForce 6800 BFG Vid Card (Forgot to model :D)
250 GB SATA HD

I want to buy another pair of Corsair memory and any of this:

AMD64 X2 Manchester 4200+ (2.0 GHz and 2*512Mb L2)
AMD64 X2 Toledo 4400+ (2.2 GHz and 2*1MB L2)
AMD64 X2 Toledo 4800+ (2.4 GHz and 2*1MB L2)

There is also the FX-60 but that one cost a lot of money so Im not even dreaming of getting one....much less consider buying it.

Just FYI I can tell you which are the prices for them.

AMD64 4200+ 263.00 USD
AMD64 4400+ 303.25 USD
AMD64 4800+ 373.50 USD

Any advice will be welcome :D

[Hamm3r]

I would say go with Toledo 4400+, for 40$ more you get double cache and 11x multi. 4800+ aint worth 70bucks more.
4200+ is a very good choice if you are tight on budget, but if you can afford spending a little more than go with Toledo. Thats just my opinion.

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

Agree with Hamm3r.

[hitbyaprkedcar7]

I got my 4800 for 288 from mwave.com , it still is currently 288

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/DeepSearch.hmx?scriteria=Processors+%2D+CPU+AMD+%2 D+ATHLON+64+X2+%28+SOCKET+939+%29+4800&All=y&DID=CPU&PID=CPU-A64X2

[Teque5]

i dunno - im making the same choice right now :confused:
X2 4200+ (http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__AMD_Athlon_64_X2_4200_Dual_Core_Processor,__915 7341) Shipped is $191
AMD 4400+ (http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__AMD_Athlon_64_X2_4400_Dual_Core_Processor,__173 27271) Shipped is $244

is 30% more money (50$) really worth the extra 1mb cache?

according to Toms Hardware, (http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=479&model2=478&chart=186) the difference is somewhat minimal
ive been on the edge of making this decision for a while...

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

is 30% more money (50$) really worth the extra 1mb cache?


SETI loves a big L2 Cache ;)

[TC]

Juan if you can do it, I would say sell the whole thing and change to a conroe system. After trying a conroe and seeing the future predictions I jumped ship and sold all of my AMD equipment. It's the biggest change I've ever seen in my 31 year IT experience.

[Mictlan]

Well Tim, the market for used parts in Mexico is really not good....I was planning on keep this until well into the Vista/Conroe/Core2Duo era, and see what I get then.

It took me a long, lob time to move from Intel to AMD, this rig is about 2 years old (it first came with a LanParty nFroce4 :D) and was really pushed because I needed to upgrade my vid card from AGP to PCI Express. I don't regect the change as this system has been rock hard stable with a really modest oc....specially after I got the new 600 W PSU :D

Now Im bidding my time and waiting to get a Core2Duo rig at work, from there I can start palnning my next upgrade. But from the latest technology I would really prefer to see how the new DX10 vid cards develop, which is the "new" CPU hit (or miss....LOL) and if I should get new optical drives.