Hello all, So I've got an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego CPU on my DFI LanParty nf4 motherboard, and it's running stock at 2.21GHz. I'm looking for an upgrade as it's a bit slow now but I don't want to spend too much money on upgrading the motherboard and everything together; just want to upgrade one thing - the processor. So far, the only fastest socket 939 compaitible processor I've found is the AMD Athlon FX-55 @ 2600MHz. Well that's the speed the eBay listing says. It's a used one and obviously is in excellent working condition (well it better be!), and is for sale for £53 including P+P. Do you think it would be worth making this upgrade, or would it not be much of a step forward? I'm looking to overclock my processor seeing as though I've got the DFI Lanparty motherboard so it will allow me to do so, but I need to figure out how to do that first. That's besides the point though! Hope someone can advise me Thank you
Precisely. At home, my main rig still runs an X2 3800+ and it does everything except game. As much as an FX would be good, even the cheapest mobo/cpu/ram combo currently available new will easily beat it.
i was in the same situation not long ago i had the 4000+ and wanted a dual. it was either upgrade to the fx60 or just stump up for an phenom ii motherboard and ram. went for the latter. the fx60 at the time were nearly £200! think i got my old phenom with board and ram for less than that.
I have a FX60 sitting here doing nothing. [edit] omg! Just checked ebay... they're still fetching over £100!
Try and find a San Diego Athlon 64 FX-57 instead. From what I've read here http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/DFI/LPNF4Expert/ Although not that specific, I'm guessing your motherboard may support up to a Manchester Athlon 64 X2 4600+ or a Toledo Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Getting on for £100 you can get a mobo/cpu/ram that will outperform it. False economy, I mean it must be on a DDR board. Perhaps if it was the last generation kit then maybe but a couple of generations ago, well, it's just not worth doing.
Think thats bad? I'm wondering why this is so high in price http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=1171&source=froogle
If you really don't want to spend much i'd suggest some like a budget bundle. Not usually a recommended retailer but you can get an AthlonII X2 255 + Gigabyte AM3 board and 4GB DDR3 RAM for £120 from OcUK. Bear in mind that's not got any IDE connectors though just in case you're still running IDE hard drives or opticals.
All I know is, I'm ebaying my FX60 while there are still enough idiots out there to buy it! Dam. I was gonna drill through it and make a keyring LOL. £100! That's a set of EBC Yellow Stuff brake pads for my Mustang.
Hi thank you all for your replies! Well I done some more searching and seen an FX-60 on eBay for £150, which is ridiculous . As Throbbi and adidan said, it looks like I'll be going for a CPU and mobo bundle - seen some in Maplin for around £200 - QUAD CORE AM3 Athlon™II X4 ASUS Board Bundle + 2GB DDR3 Memory. That sounds quite good! As jizwizard said, overclocking my current system will be just as good as buying the FX-60. But first I need to finish off my watercooling kit that I made and I'll try and overclock my current system before deciding whether to upgrade it or not. Also, my current RAM installed is 2 x512MB Crucial sticks in dual mode. Overclocking would mean I'd have to upgrade my RAM too, wouldn't it? Thank you all
I think that's the problem you see. Very old generation gear, once you start upgrading one thing you need to upgrade others. Pretty much the normal setup has 4Gb+ RAM now, and that RAM is far superior to the stuff you'd be using. You can try your overclock (sure why the hell not! It's fun ) but if you decide to upgrade, pick a budget and let us know. I'm not sure of the bundle you've seen but people on here will be able to point you onto the best kit for the budget you have and save you a few quid in the process.
If you do decide to get a bundle then you can easily beat the performance of that bundle by buying the parts seperately. You could easily get a Core i3 2100, 4GB of DDR3 Memory and a cheap H67 motherboard for around £200 and it'd destroy the Athlon X4 on everything apart from maybe rare applications that take full advantage of quad cores.
Agreed. That Maplin bundle isn't that great. Maplin are always overpriced for computer gear, and always sell archaic, low end stuff. The above thread is a better solution.
I have an Athlon 64 x2 4800 cpu for sale, if you're still looking at an upgrade? Side note: why does this thread highlight the word 'upgrade'?
I know someone who may take you up on that, if the OP isn't interested. Because the link you followed was based on a search for the word "upgrade".
