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Debating upgrade to 3700+ 754 clawhammer

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D22

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On my current setup, my motherboard can only do 222 stable at 1:1 with the ram. This would be enough to get a 754 clawhammer to above FX-55 speeds if it could actually pull it off. I would probably keep my stock sempron heatsink and sell my 3100+ bare. Upgrade cost would run me like $70 net. I guess I am worried if I should even bother. After tweaking my system I now get 8200 in 3dmark05, and the new games seem to be stressing dual-core so much I guess I am just wondering if I should let this sempron hold out until I do flip my whole platform to an e4300 or something of the like.

Ram pricing is killing me though. It went from $110 for 2 gigs to $200+. So it is $70 for nice upgrade, or roughly $400 to go conroe.
 
Through the end of the month (IIRC) Newegg has a deal for a socket 939 setup around $108 shipped. The CPU is an OEM 3400+ (2.2GHz, basically a 3500+ but OEM only) and an ECS Nforce 4 Ultra chipset board. You can use the same HSF that you're using now and probably sell your CPU/mobo for around $40-60, thus making for a cheap upgrade. You'll be recycling all your existing parts, get better performance (especially after an overclock), get better memory bandwidth if your 1GB is a dual channel kit.
 
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