Upgrade to AMD 3500 Venice or 3700 San Diego?

[by8man]

I currently have an MSI Neo 4 Platinum with AMD 3200 Winchester core and want to upgrade it and don't know for sure which would be best. Between the 3500 Venice and the 3700 San Diego will I see that big of a performance increase with the 3700? I only plan to do minor overclocking, I will be increasing my Ram also. Any suggestions welcome.

 

[n7]

Welcome to the forums.

Upgrading to a 3500+ or 3700+...how do i put this.

You aren't gonna see any difference unless all you do is bench every day.

Now if you wanted to OC, then okay, if your Winnie was a bum OCer, then i could maybe see where you are coming from.

But seeing as you don't want to OC much, why exactly upgrade then?

 

[RussianSensation]

bad upgrade decision.

Get Audigy 2ZS for $60, Get a new videocard, get another 1 gig of ram, take your gf out to dinner? But spending $200 to go from 3200+ (which will probably overclock to 3500+ speeds) to 3700+ is not worth it. Even if you take overclocking into consideration (I dont know what your system specs are) I am sure there are other ways to spend that money better (or not spend it and put it aside).

If you really want to upgrade your cpu, buy X2 3800+.

 

[by8man]

I'm putting my 3200 in my son's PC with an MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum board so I wanted to put something a litle faster in mine.

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: by8man
I'm putting my 3200 in my son's PC with an MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum board so I wanted to put something a litle faster in mine.

telling you right now your not going to see a speed differnce oc your 3200+ venice right now to 3700+ speeds and your not going to notice it. you need to upgrade to dual core opteron or x2 that would be the best bet.