Amd athlon 3400+ VS. 3500+

[JoeFaheyx]

Hi, I was thining of getting an Athlon 64 bit processor. I originally wanted a 3200+, but then I saw the 3400+ and the 3500+....Is there much of a difference between these 3 processors? There isn't a huge price difference, so I was thinking about the 3500+. By the way, I was thinking of getting either a K8n Neo2 plat. or an ASUS K8N-E-deluxe...Which mother board would you suggest? And why...THANKS!

 

[Mik3y]

search button is your friend. there is a recent thread on this.

 

[JoeFaheyx]

I can't find it.

 

[uOpt]

There are three models of 3400+.

You need to figure out what your applications are and then decide whether clockspeed, cache or memory bandwidth is critical for you. With 3400+ alone you get all three variants.

 

[JoeFaheyx]

So will only certain types of 3400+'s work with certain motherboards? Or if one worked with one motherboard, would the rest work with it? I am going to get a k8n neo2 plat. mobo, is one of the 3400+'s better for this?

 

[uOpt]

Well, you need to make a list with the sockets. The K8N is socket 754.

For Socket 754 you get the highest AMD64 clockspeed for the lowest money (and by far) with the 754 Newcastle 3400+. Almost all applications depend more on clockspeed than cache or RAM bandwidth, so that's best price/performance.

I chose that one based on that, and because I couldn't get a socket939 board with NVidia, much less NVidia's non-PCI Gigabit Ethernet.

If you want to overclock the whole equotation changes, but I can't help you with that.

I really hate the mess AMD is making out of it. Come on, three entirely different CPUs all named "Athlon 64 3400+" with not even a char to tell them apart. Are they kidding me? They almost lost that sale to me.