Opteron 165, X2 4200+ or Intel 805D

[jthunder]

Here is the senario, I mostly do media editing / encoding, and play the occasional game, I also like to have a cool and quiet system.

Which of the options below would you do if you were me?

Current System:
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 3200+ venice
2 GB DDR KVR

Option 1:
Sell the CPU and purchase an Opteron 165 for 380+tax

Option 2:
Sell the CPU and purchase a second hand X2 4200+ for 350.00 OBO (so probably like 330.00)

Option 3:
Sell my whole rig and buy an Intel 805, Asus 775 MB and new ram for approximately 350-400+tax depending on the ram.

Thanks

 

[shinigamiX]

If you're going to go with 3 wait a month, Intel's new Core microarchitecture is coming out then and early tests have seen some incredible results, comfortably beating any of AMD's offerings. Otherwise go for the Opteron.

 

[jthunder]

I will have about $400.00 total to spend, I don't know that I'll be able to upgrade to the CoreDuo.

But I do want to take advantage of a dual core CPU for improving my encoding times, that's why this dilemma.

 

[shinigamiX]

In theat case, I'd recommend the Opteron.

 

[MrsD]

I would wait and get a X2 when the prices drop.
No point in spending so much on an opteron. You wont be able to upgrade your system after that because 939 will be gone.

 

[ryokinshin]

dont bother with the 4200 go with 3800 when the price drops

 

[SidVicious]

dont bother with the 4200 go with 3800 when the price drops

Agreed, especially if the X2 3800+ gets a price drop similar to what the 3800+ went through this week :

Even though I doubt that the X2 3800+ will drop below 175$, a hundred dollar drop is worth the wait.

I'm sure that a 400MHz OC on stock Vcore is definetly possible, '06 E4 Manchesters have that much headroom...

 

[jthunder]

Any idea on when the price drop will happen?

 

[darth_farter]

drop will happen at the conroe launch time. so at July 23-24th

 

[NEO3]

Right now...Opteron.
Next week...Conroe (if avaliable).

 

[Ycon]

None, go with Conroe.