Venice 3200 question

[robphelan]

excuse my ignorance.. i haven't dealt with any of the newer chips.. i still have a P4 3.o GHz...

if i move to a Venice 3200, that's an AMD64 athlon, right? does that mean it's 64 bit? if so, what kind of compatibility problems might i run into, if any, while gaming ?

thanks,
robert

 

[Scouzer]

yes it is 64 bit

no problems in gaming

 

[Aznguy1872]

Just problems with some drivers and software.

 

[joejccva]

I built the rig in my sig about 6 months ago or so and the only 2 problems i've had were 1 bad PSU and 1 bad stick of memory. One of my OCZ 512mb sticks went bad, thanks to memtest86 telling me. Replaced and everything has been fine. I play MMORPG's games mostly. No problems.

 

[Zebo]

I'm not sure why you'd upgrade unless overclcoking to say 2.5-2.8Ghz.. Really your best bet is a new video card for gaming.. not saying the 3200 is'nt faster but we're talking like 10-20% here.. not worth new board, new mem, new processor and building for 20%.

 

[robphelan]

Originally posted by: Zebo
I'm not sure why you'd upgrade unless overclcoking to say 2.5-2.8Ghz.. Really your best bet is a new video card for gaming.. not saying the 3200 is'nt faster but we're talking like 10-20% here.. not worth new board, new mem, new processor and building for 20%.

i'm upgrading because of a new video card... i just bought an 7800 GT CO .

but my current mobo is mATX socket 478 AGP and I need a PCI-E slot now.

i've only found 1 board in existence that meets those 3 requirements (mATX, socket 478, PPCI-E) and it's OOS.

 

[Sunrise089]

Nice pick on the video card, and the A64 3200+ will be just fine - no compatability problems in a normal install, the 64 bit just allows you to run WinXP-64, but at the moment there is very little reason to do so. On the other hand if you have not bought your chip yet and if you plan to overclock at all then look into Opteron 144s. Same basic chip, but double the cache and normally overclocks better, they go in and out of stock, but depending on timing you may find one for cheap.