Which X2?

airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
edited July 2006 in Hardware
Which one,
  • 3800
  • 4200
  • 4400
  • 4600

I am leaning towards the 4400, because I should still be able to hit 2.6 easy, as well as have a 1mb cache. or will the 4600 serve me better with an extra 200mhz stock? I cant afford the 4800.

Comments

  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    4400 :) is the best bang for the buck if it has 1MB cache per core :) the others all have 512KB
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Yeah since they lowered the prices that 4400 with 1MB cache per core looks very tempting even though my 3800+ with 512KB per core runs so nicely.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    yeh, thats what I was thinking, and i should be able to hit 2.6 easily, if not 2.7.

    Then I am also getting my brother a 4000+ since it is only $129, which is just awesome.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited July 2006
    Airborn, you might also consider the X2-3800 for your brother too, since it's only $166. That's if his board is socket 939 and not socket 754 of course. :)
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Last weeks prices, or next weeks??

    I wouldn't buy anything until the dust settles and Core2 is actually shipping.

    A few months back I went with the 3800. It is running 2.35 with 2GB of ram. I would like to put a little single 512 in and see how high the CPU will go.
    Today I would also go with the 4400. Get your brother the 3800 and save a couple of bucks.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    Which one,
    • 3800
    • 4200
    • 4400
    • 4600

    I am leaning towards the 4400, because I should still be able to hit 2.6 easy, as well as have a 1mb cache. or will the 4600 serve me better with an extra 200mhz stock? I cant afford the 4800.

    Serve you better at what?

    Chances are you'll get a better overclock with the 3800 ...IMO.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Well, I think that I want to get the 4400, as it has the nice cache. Then for my little bro, I was thinking of getting him the 4000+ and oc'ing it, because I heard that it would out perform the 3800X2, is that so?

    also, for his rig, I need a good stable 939 board with AGP on it, because rather than buy a new video card for it, I want to give him my 6800GT, as he would put it to good use. This board also needs to be decent at OC'ing, but I am starting to fear that I may not find on, the 4000 has a 12x multi doesnt it, so if I could even just get a small bump to 220, then that would land me at 2.6Ghz.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    edcentric wrote:
    Last weeks prices, or next weeks??

    I wouldn't buy anything until the dust settles and Core2 is actually shipping.

    A few months back I went with the 3800. It is running 2.35 with 2GB of ram. I would like to put a little single 512 in and see how high the CPU will go.
    Today I would also go with the 4400. Get your brother the 3800 and save a couple of bucks.

    Prices are coming down again, hot dog!

    I probably wont be getting these rigs immediately, I am still working stuff out, and just seing what will work, you dont think that these processors are going to go back up/disapear do you?
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Well, that is a tough call. 939 is going away, so I wouldn't wait too long.

    Ed's rule of buying electronics at a good price: If you need a part now, and you find it at a price you are willing to pay, then buy it and use it now.

    If you want to try to time the market just go buy lottery tickets.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    yeh, but timing this has a lot better odds than the oklahoma lottery, which I figured out to be roughly one in 5 million, picture a big tube wil 4,999,999 yellow bb's, and one red one, reach in and grab a bb, chances are, you didnt get the red one.

    This one, I will wait and see if they get better in a week or two, I have a good chance of timing this right I believe.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    Well, I think that I want to get the 4400, as it has the nice cache. Then for my little bro, I was thinking of getting him the 4000+ and oc'ing it, because I heard that it would out perform the 3800X2, is that so?

    also, for his rig, I need a good stable 939 board with AGP on it, because rather than buy a new video card for it, I want to give him my 6800GT, as he would put it to good use. This board also needs to be decent at OC'ing, but I am starting to fear that I may not find on, the 4000 has a 12x multi doesnt it, so if I could even just get a small bump to 220, then that would land me at 2.6Ghz.

    The 4400 I tried wouldn't do past 2.52.
    It all depends on the steppings I suppose. I looked at xtremesystems but I couldn't find the stepping chart. I'll look again.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    I suppose it would, I thought I have read some things on it, I know the 4000 will do 2.6 easily.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    Which one,
    • 3800
    • 4200
    • 4400
    • 4600

    I am leaning towards the 4400, because I should still be able to hit 2.6 easy, as well as have a 1mb cache. or will the 4600 serve me better with an extra 200mhz stock? I cant afford the 4800.
    X2 3800+ $169
    X2 4200+ $219
    X2 4400+ $455
    X2 4600+ $269
    X2 4800+ $499

    Considering current prices and future system changes I would grab a X2 3800+, OC it to 2.5ghz+ and call it a day.

    I would also go with a NF4 PCIe mobo. Grab a PCIe 6600GT or 7600GT, and sell the 6800GT while it still has good value.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    except that I can get a 4400 for $255.

    and maybe you didnt see that I am building two new computers, and putting different parts in another, as I am moving the 6800GT, and memory and other stuff from my current pc to the 4000 that I am going to build
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    yeah and the 4200 is $188. Prices are down even again today.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    airbornflght wrote:
    I suppose it would, I thought I have read some things on it, I know the 4000 will do 2.6 easily.

    It might ...depends on what stepping is shipping and what it will do. You can special order a select stepping but it will cost a bit extra.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited July 2006
    The ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 supports both AGP, PCI-Express, socket 939 AND (with a $30 add-in card) Socket AM2, and the board itself is only ~$65.

    It's also a really nice overclocker - just look at my sig.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    TheSmJ wrote:
    The ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 supports both AGP, PCI-Express, socket 939 AND (with a $30 add-in card) Socket AM2, and the board itself is only ~$65.

    It's also a really nice overclocker - just look at my sig.

    Sold!
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