Athlon 64 3500 vs 3800

[RearAdmiral]

Im looking to purchase one of the previous processors. Is the 3800 worth the price premium? I plan on OC'ing a plenty.

 

[Mr_Nuke]

3500+ and 3800+ have just been launched this monday, so I don't think there's yet anyone who can tell you how they overclock. I believe the 3500+ should be the solution, but if you have money to spend, the 3800+ may as well do it. Are you building a new system, or do you have the rest of the components in hand?

 

[RearAdmiral]

New system

 

[pitsi]

I believe one can pretty safely assume that the limit for overclocking any A64 130nm CPU is ~2.6GHz. That's just how much AMD's design can give @ 130nm, pretty much like ~2.2GHz was the limit for SocketA CPUs (mobile Bartons don't count!).