K8N Neo2 Plat Upgrades?

On Feb 19, 10:02 pm, ned.math...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 19, 9:51 pm, Glasspider <Glasspi...@spamblock.com> wrote:
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> > That is an intensive use which could benefit of an upgrade. In most
> > instances, WinXP (I'm making an assumption based on the age of your
> > machine) gains little from memory over 1Gig. Since DDR is relatively
> > expensive, the cost to performance increase ratio is pretty low.
> > However, you might benefit if your RAM usage in consistently high in
> > task manager.
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> > You'll definitely gain from a processor upgrade. I recently put a dual
> > core of about the same speed as my single core in my Neo4 version of
> > your board. For $50 I got two horses pulling the cart at the same speed.
> > The upgrade matched my usage which is characterized by heavy
> > multi-tasking. If you are doing DAW with no other tasks, then I'd agree
> > that you'd benefit from the fastest single-core that'll fit.
>
> > On the other hand, if you have the scratch an upgrade is in your near
> > future anyway. However, if you are buying an off the shelf Vista machine
> > I'd wait until SP1 is released. Vista is all kinds of messed up.
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> > 'pider
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> > > well I have been using it as a DAW and would like to amp it up a bit -
> > > but it must be very stable.
>
> so is the FX-55 the biggest/fastest cpu that the Neo2 will take?
>
> and if you know these cpu's - what are the merits of the different
> iterations - Clawhammer vs San Diego for example?
>
> ps - I'd probably never buy and off the shelf computer (Apple or
> anything else) as building them is too much fun.
>
> pps - as an aside - my other machine: ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe - Athlon
> 64x2 3800+ - Corsair CMX512-6400XLPRO 1gb - totally smokes this Neo2
> beast.

another possible cpu route I forgot to mention is the Opteron 175/180
- but I don't know how to tell if they're necessarily faster than an
FX-55 or a 64x2 4800+

ned.mathers@gmail.com wrote:
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> another possible cpu route I forgot to mention is the Opteron 175/180
> - but I don't know how to tell if they're necessarily faster than an
> FX-55 or a 64x2 4800+

Neither is a bad upgrade, but in my opinion that $200 - $400 would be
better applied to new hardware.

'pider

ned.mathers@gmail.com wrote:
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> another possible cpu route I forgot to mention is the Opteron 175/180
> - but I don't know how to tell if they're necessarily faster than an
> FX-55 or a 64x2 4800+

Neither is a bad upgrade, but in my opinion that $200 - $400 would be
better applied to new hardware.

'pider