Based on the CPU Charts at tomshardware.com, it looks like the Athlon 64 3500+ would blow the socks off of your 2.4GHz P4. The Athlon 3200+ would be a closer race, but it should at least be comparable.
Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > radio.biz] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:31 PM > To: Flex Radio Reflector > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Dual Core Optimization > > Since I shot off my mouth about a 200 dollar upgrade, a private note > effectively challenged me to go find it. > > Now, when I was doing 200 dollar upgrades, I was really paying close > attention to the products and the market and so on. > > This is more like one hour wonder stuff, so there may be some dollars I > could remove with more study and in some places (e.g. motherboards) > there's really some scope to go find something else -- lots of unexamined > alternatives out there. > > But, asking at a site I trust for this sort of thing, it looks like, if I > had to buy it right now, this minute, based on what I know, it would be > more like 250 to 300 dollars (mostly depending on what I did about the > graphics card). > > One setup looks like this at, I'm told 275 US Dollars: > > 1 ASUS M2NPV-VM Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - > Retail > Model #: M2NPV-VM Item #: N82E16813131014 > > 1 CORSAIR VALUE SELECT 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 > 5300) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS1GBKIT667D2 - Retail > Model #: VS1GBKIT667D2 Item #: N82E16820145568 > > 1 AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Orleans 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Processor Model > ADA3500CNBOX - Retail > Model #: ADA3500CNBOX Item #: N82E16819103633 > > another (with a bit less memory and single channel) looks like this: > > ASUS M2NPV-VM is 82 dollars > AMD 64 3200 boxed retail is 100 dollars > Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200 . CL=4 . UNBUFFERED . ECC . DDR2-533 . 1.8V . 64Meg > x 72 > . . . is 75 dollars > > Toss in maybe 30 to 50 dollars if I put in an actual video card (my old > one probably doesn't plug in here anymore) instead of doing on-board > video. > > That's the one hour wonder version of it. > > Any of my betters want to tell me that this won't match my glitch-free P > IV 2.4 gig Intel? > > > Larry WO0Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
