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Upgrading my PC

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WildMonkey

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Jun 27, 2003
Hello guys.

It is about time to upgrade my PC. I have a large budget, but I'm cheap, I'm not willing to spend $1000 for a CPU but I am looking for something reasonably good.

I was just wondering what should I get and what kind of performance boost I would be looking at, percentage wise, if I go from a Newcastle 3000+ to a let's say Opty 148 or San Diego 3700+


Thanks for the help.
 
Do you plan to OC? How long are you willing to wait because a lot of places are out of Opertons and Yonah is just around the corner? Beyond that I think it would be a noticible improvement but not worth it at this time.
 
I plan to OC, but not to it's limit. I have a watercooling system.
I guess I can wait, but I just wanted to know what I should be looking for.
 
WildMonkey said:
I just wanted to know what I should be looking for.

Socket 939 Opteron.

Dual core if you have money / if you multi task / if you have to stop what you're doing just to let the CPU finish one big task.

Single core for best cost to performance ratio, if you wish to spend the (substantial) savings on other parts of the system, if you work on big things one at the time, etc.
 
Go with the Opteron 165 or 170, either are great OCers. Huge performance boost from single core to dual cores, well maybe not huge, but noticeable when playing games+other things.
 
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