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I may be wrong here but I believe your XP3200 would perform very close to a
1.4ghz Opteron.
I don't see a reason to get an Opteron unless you are wanting at least a
dual setup.
If you are going single CPU then get one of the Athlon 64 CPUs like the
Athlon 64 3400+ which runs at 2.2ghz, btw, and currently sells for $416 at
newegg.com.
But since you were going to get the Opteron 240 (1.4ghz), I see you maybe
are wanting to keep your spending down since the Opteron 240 goes for $192
right now. So if that is the case then I'd recommend the 2ghz Athlon 64
3000+ for $223. Only $30 more than the Opteron 240 but I bet a much better
performer since they are both 64bit AMD CPUs and the Athlon 64 3000+ runs
600mhz faster and they should both be just as overclockable but I don't know
that part for sure. Did you hear the Athlon 64 3000+ CPUs were locked or
something?
Personally, around Christmas time I wanted the fastest thing there was so I
built a FX-51 system and am very happy with it.
Another thing that should figure into your plan, I guess, is this: What
video card do you have? If it is an expensive AGP card then of course I'd
not wait for that new PCI-express interface unless you have a buyer for your
current card.
OK so that said, I see you do video editing/encoding. I would heavily
recommend you look into a dual CPU system. So here is a post (modified some
for you) I made lower down in this same thread that applies to someone who
does what you do:
Around Christmas I put together an FX-51 system.
I had a hard time finding a motherboard so I went with the dual cpu board by
MSI with socket 940. They only have one, the K8T Master2-Far. The Master 1
is for one CPU only.
But now I'm glad I bought the Master 2. Here is why.
My last system was an AMD dual 1800+ setup.
Now that I'm running just one processor, I'm finding sure, when I'm doing
one thing at a time - like gaming - it ROCKS. But when I am burning a CD or
running Media Player maximized (not even full screen) or other CPU-intensive
apps (like video or music editing), yeah it runs them great by themselves
but if I pull
up something else in the other monitor, SLOW. Any kind of multitasking is
noticably lame. Very bad at multitasking. I doubt any worse than any other
single CPU system EXCEPT for Intels hyperthreaded CPUs and I stay away from
those for other reasons. Luckily there aren't tons of times I'm needing this
capability. But it is really annoying when I'm rendering a movie or a set of
hirez 3D images for an animation and the machine stutters when I try to
bring up some other app to say work in Photoshop or send email while the
render is happening in the background.
Okay so here is what I recommend and what I wish I had done in the first
place: Buy a dual 940 motherboard. And it should be possible to run an
Opteron 248 (same chip and price as the FX-51 but MP enabled) by itself
until you can afford or desire to have two running at the same time. We all
know these 940 chipset CPUs will be dropping in price fast over the coming
weeks as 939 rolls out. So you will end up with a screamer
whether you decide to stay with one CPU or go with two. Since I opted for
the FX-51, I have to now get rid of it so I can buy two Opteron 248's. Oh
and if you are rolling in the dough, get the Opteron 250 instead!
Caveat: If you want to overclock, don't get the MSI board! It's barely
overclockable.
I hear, though, there is at least one 940 board out there that is
overclockable. But me, I'm wanting stability more than anything and heck a
stock-clocked (well barely overclocked) FX-51 combined with a gig of DDR RAM
(make sure you get your RAM divided up into two sticks, no matter what
amount you get), and a GeForce 5950 ultra, I'm able to play Unreal
Tournament 2004 with everything jacked to max and great frame rates. So why
overclock? Yeah yeah... when Doom3 or Half Life finally come out then maybe
I'll need to but I doubt it. By then maybe I'll have dropped two Opteron
250's into this motherboard and snagged the next generation video card
Oh and by the way if you are doing video editing, you probably already know
this but if not: You can never have enough RAM! If I were you and could
afford it, I'd go with 2 or even 4 gigs.
I hope this rambling email helped some!!!
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> Thanks for the comments this is what I am looking at getting now:
>
> AMD Opteron (1 WAY) 1.4ghz 64 Bit 1400 Mhz
> With the ASUS Asus SK8V
> How would this perform against my XP3200 (I play lots of games and do TONS
> of video editing/encoding) so I need a pretty beefy system. Or would I be
> better of waiting for the new PCI format as I understand that AMD are
asking
> motherboard makers to drop support for the old PCI slots.
> I understand that this configuration I will be able to overclock hoping to
> provide FX51 performance.
> Anyone suggest what memory I can use with this setup too as this is
another
> grey area I have had lots of conflicting infomation.
> The memory in my current system is :
> Corsair Value Select 2x 512 DDR 400 (cas 2.5)
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