Okay, I have an Athlon 3200 single core processor on my home theater pc. The motherboard is socket 939 and I know processors are going to get hard to find so I'm looking at getting either:
An Athlon X2 3800 (512MB cache, 2Ghz processor) --Toledo core
or
An Opteron 165 (1GB cache, 1.8Ghz processor) --Denmark core.
or
just keep the processor I have and not bother.
I will not be overclocking but may underclock to make machine quieter, just looking to make my computer a little more future friendly and add some horsepower. Its only tasks are playing video's and compressing DVD's to DIVX
2007-07-09 17:08:45 · 2 answers · asked by Jason T 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Out of those two I would recommend going with the 3800+. The extra processor speed on the 3800+ should overcome the fact that it has less cache than the Opteron. Either way I would suggest making one of the two upgrades, you should see a nice performance gain when compressing the DVDs, it will probably cut the time by about 40%.
2007-07-09 17:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go with the athlon x2 3800 the opterons are more for servers. the athlon will be much better for video tigerdirect had some great pricing on the 4200+ amd 64 athlon x2
2007-07-09 17:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by dj_lonewolf69 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋