Price Guides November 2004: CPU and Motherboards
by Adam Rader on November 18, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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AMD Processors - Athlon XP
Two factors often ring true of enthusiasts and system builders. They like technologies that have been around for a while and are proven, and they like to get the most that they can get out of existing hardware. The Athlon XP still serves both of these purposes very well, whether you are building a new system from scratch or you just want to upgrade your existing Socket A chip. With the introduction of Athlon 64 and Sempron products from AMD, Athlon XP prices are only going to get lower and lower.Since prices are low, and because the Athlon XP doesn't have an infinite amount of time left to live, we have raised the standards a bit for this week's recommendation. The Athlon XP 2800+, available for less than $100, is a chip that can provide a noticeable bump in gaming and high-end performance for a lot of users who are running older non-Barton processors. The price to performance ratio on this chip is also one worth checking out if you don't really want to deal with upgrading to a new socket, motherboard and processor all at once. Picking out a lower processor, such as a 2500+ or even 2000+ is a great way to build a basic system as well.
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Chadder007 - Friday, November 19, 2004 - link
"N'wood S478 3.4c $133 more than 3.4 Prescott. Unbelievable. You can see what people are buying. intel should continue with N'wood and S478. "I agree about Socket 478....Intel didn't care to give those users too much of an upgrade path and just jumped all over to the new socket way too soon with little justification to do so.
qballshalls2002 - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
Still waiting for the nForce4 boards to show before I go slurging again. Hehehe!aw - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
Haha...sorry...I meant if you were trying to get to 1:1 DDR600 like a lot of Anandtechers are inclined to do. My DDR is bigger than your DDR;-)
jmke - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
" The only thing that will hold it back is the quality of your RAM... "most A64 boards features excellent memory:htt(fsb) dividers, and the impact on performance versus running memory at 1:1 is minimal
aw - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
I agree with #8. My new 3000+ easily hits 2.4ghz which makes it $160 3800+. The only thing that will hold it back is the quality of your RAM...arswihart - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
why get Athlon64 3200+ 90nm instead of 3000+? Can't they both overclock the same, as shown in Anand's own tests?bofkentucky - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
In the 9xx board section, its is the intel 915 chipset, not 912.Pumpkinierre - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
N'wood S478 3.4c $133 more than 3.4 Prescott. Unbelievable. You can see what people are buying. intel should continue with N'wood and S478.PseudoKnight - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
The Athlon XP 2800+ is flipping me off. I'm scared.slurmsmackenzie - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
how come the 915 chipset isn't listed? it offers pci-e without the conversion to ddr2? anandtech always puts the emphasis on the fact that an upgrade to 775 is an entire system overhaul, when 915 offers the meager upgrade of processor/mobo, or cpu/mobo/video card without a performance drop from 925x. so why a 925x board is suggested for price/performance efficiency is beyond me.