What,s the Diff??!!

[doglips]

Hey, Gona upgrade my Old Socket A....Want to go with a AMD 939.....Lookin at the AMD 3500 or the 3800....prices are Great! My question is what is the diff in the 3500BP and the 3500CG? The spec's are the same!?!??

 

[YO_KID37]

Hey, Gona upgrade my Old Socket A....Want to go with a AMD 939.....Lookin at the AMD 3500 or the 3800....prices are Great! My question is what is the diff in the 3500BP and the 3500CG? The spec's are the same!?!??

Want To donate me your old Chip? I've got a pretty old system SocketA maybe if i get a Faster Clocked Chip i can last. until i can gather enough money to pay for a full featured 965chip Motherboard (getting a EX6800 as a gift at December)

 

[bmouring]

Stepping: the BP is from the E3 stepping, CG from E4. Generally speaking, not much is different but the later stepping (E4) should have small improvements/tweaks in it.
Will you notice it? Probably not (some places claim E3 is better for overclocking, other claim E4 is, they are probably about the same so that the statistical noise of any one stepping's performance makes both possible).
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[doglips]

Sorry Man....In my House it's hand me down time....Wife get's the old stuff so I can get the new stuff

 

[YO_KID37]

Sorry Man....In my House it's hand me down time....Wife get's the old stuff so I can get the new stuff

Oh alright no problem dude. i'm probbly gonig to donate this to my younger cousin too. he's liek a child prodigy hes only in grade 3 but can do english at 6th grade and math almost better than me, and i'm just done academic grade 11 math. it'll be a good gift for him cuse i ran this for years its this a good reliable CPU. this CPU here is become my baby. overclocknig thru the years handling the 80-90c heat i put her through the heat when my fan went bad. she's my best friends since i was 12

 

[turpit]

Hey, Gona upgrade my Old Socket A....Want to go with a AMD 939.....Lookin at the AMD 3500 or the 3800....prices are Great! My question is what is the diff in the 3500BP and the 3500CG? The spec's are the same!?!??

Just some stuff to think about. I appologize If you've already heard/know all this:

If your going to go AMD, you may want to skip the socket 939 chip upgrade and move to a socket AM2 mobo. Basically the same chips as 939, but they use the newer DDR2. Also AMD wont support socket 939 much longer, meaning its not really going to be upgradable to much longer, but AM2 will be around for awhile.

If you can wait, huge price drops are coming for AMD on 24 July, so you will be able to get a significantly faster chip for the same money.

Finally, if you havent heard, Intel's Core 2 will be out in about a week and a half. From all the reviews, it will quite a bit faster than AMD, but priced very low.

Just some stuff to

 

[doglips]

Yes i know all this....i want to stick to my 939 plan...cause Im cheap! And the 939 is good enough for what I'm doin. I can upgrade my MB,Processor,GPU...for about $350....$400...get a disent rig that will last me another 2 years or so??!!! Reuse my OCZ memory,HD,case,case fans, PSU...it's a cheap upgrade for me....not much of a gamer...just pokin around...play a little Ages of Empire now and them...My sons a Big gamer...His rig is a AMD 3200 939...pretty fast! so this should be a Great upgrade for me. I new when i wrote this that I'd get the AM2 talk....I do apreciate all the advise givin...but I'm stickin to my plan! Just wondered about the diff...looks like most people are buyin the BP chip!!??!!! Any one else have there 2 cents worth???

 

[CptCpu]

AM2 is at the same price as 939 or cheaper plus DDR2 should be cheaper than regular DDR. Hands down the AM2 platform is a better choice.

 

[doglips]

Please read the above post........Isaid i dont want to buy new memory! just proc,MB,GPU!

 

[CptCpu]

I read it.