need a good/cheap CPU

[nachtkap]

my curent PC is fast approching retirement age so its time for a new one. its just that ive been out the loop for a while as far as hardware goes for a while.

i wanna get another amd cpu i just dont anything about the ones that are on the market rigth now. meaning i got no clue if there are any cpu´s out there that i wanna stay from.

as far as price goes i dont wanna spend more then the "Athlon 64 3700+ Athlon 64 3700+ OPGA, "San Diego"" cost rigth now
the cpu that fits my wallet the best rigth now would be Athlon 64 3500+ Athlon 64 3500+ OPGA, "Venice" i just dont know anything about it =/

any opinoins would be appreciated =)

thx =)

 

[CLohre]

If I were you I would get a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ E3 if you can find it. They go about for $149. I have one and Overclocked it to 2.25GHZ from its original 1.8GHZ and that is running at the AThlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHZ speeds and with a little help you can go way further.

There are numerous people on this forum who have a 3000+ and are runnig it at 2.4 to 2.7GHZ which is an enormous bang for your buck. Its harder to find E3 3000+ chips, E6 are the "newer" but not excatly better for OC'ing.

 

[nachtkap]

so none of the current cores have any mayor flaws ? that was the main thing i was concerned about

 

[Wnh5001]

the athlon 64 3200 is a great deal in my opinion, i think its at 170 (sudden jump in 10 bucks in <one week for some odd reason) used to be like 160 for a whole month or so. so i suggest u look around and track down some prices for your ideal price. i bought mine for 157 shipped at 2.0 ghz stocked overclocked to 2.4 easily.

 

[Zap]

I saw "good/cheap CPU" and was gonna suggest a Sempron, but looks like your budget for the CPU itself goes past $200 - not what poor unemployed students like myself would consider "cheap" but to each their own.

The 3700+ and 3500+ are the same MHz, just that the former has twice the cache. They are both reasonably overclockable and good performers. Whether you get anything lower depends on if you plan to overclock.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

See if you can find one of the Socket 939 Opterons at a good price and then overclock it.