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"Intel to Athlon upgrade"

I have been thinking about a upgrade for a while now and i am looking at getting a athlon 64 3700+ but i haven't got the foggest about althons performance and alot of places don't have them in benchmarks so it's hard to see how much of a performance increase i am going to get.

I currently have a Intel 2.4 P4 and i was thinking of going to a 3.4 P4 but after reading a few things i decided that i am going to go for a 64bit athlon.

Does anyone own a 3700+ or know anything about what sort of pentium they match up to?

thanks

Yeah, the San Diego is better, it will be a slight bit faster due to see4 or something like that and because it’s 90nm it will run cooler.

It is socket 939 but you can definitely get motherboards with a 939 CPU slot and AGP.

If I'm thinking of the right thing then San Diego uses 90nm dies instead of 130nm.

Anyway, it's a better architecture.

erm i haven't got a clue what that means.

Is that the 939 socket one? as i need one that can go in a motherboard with a AGP slot. so i think it has to be the 7** version

The one i was looking at is clawhammer.

Just making sure you’re buying the San Diego version, right?

If i haddn't just eaten it you would have got a cookie.

Looks like this wil be an increase of about 33% from my current CPU whch is worth the 200 odd quid. My 2.4 has lasted me 2 years so thats not too bad, and theres nothing wrong with it so i can use it for a spare computer.

Thanks.

Finally leaving the dark side, Mr.chip.

It’s impossible to compare the 3700+ to an Intel equivalent as they both have strong points and weakness. You should find that 3700+ will probably beat or match any Intel chip in games.
Unfortunately Pentiums wipe the flaw with encoding etc.

This should come in use: [URL]http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html?modelx=33&model1=65&model2=16&chart=21[/URL]

I have been thinking about a upgrade for a while now and i am looking at getting a athlon 64 3700+ but i haven't got the foggest about althons performance and alot of places don't have them in benchmarks so it's hard to see how much of a performance increase i am going to get.

I currently have a Intel 2.4 P4 and i was thinking of going to a 3.4 P4 but after reading a few things i decided that i am going to go for a 64bit athlon.

Does anyone own a 3700+ or know anything about what sort of pentium they match up to?

thanks