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I am bulding a new AMD system soon and i donn whats the best buy the 3200+ or the 64 3200+. I have bult systems with the 3200+ runs great good performance ect but i know nothing ab the 64 bit CPU's. I'de like to get in to a 64 bit chip but know nothing i want the best on the market can any one help. What are the major differences between the 3200+ and the 64 3200+ other than the bit.

With just the bit as you say, the performance is supposed to be twice that of the original 3200. In reality, you'll get an increase, but it will only be reconized by software programmed to used 64 bit processes. ie windows 64

I went from a athlon 3200+ to a A64 3200+ and the performance increases were very nice.

everything was just snappier, not to mention higher framrates and game loading performance.

The people who say A64's only perform better in 64 bit apps just don't know what they are talking about. and if you Fold, the performance increase is HUGE!

If you can afford it go a64! everyone here who has is beyond pleased.

the hard part is actually deciding on the mboard. My current top pick for a 754pin a64 is the Abit KV8 Pro, followed closely by the MSI K8T Neo. if you are going Sata with more then 2 drives the MSI is your pick, if not the Abit wins hands down. I would pick up that Abit for permanent use, but I have 4 sata drives and it just does not support that.

Greg

My new laptop is equipped with the a64 chip. It will keep up with any of my desktop systems by far. Buss speed, memory handling etc... it all works very well, even at the 32 bit (still equiped) version of OS. By far I have to agree its a superb chip/system.

The Athlon XP 3200+ is a POS compared to the 64 3200+. Does more work per clock cycle, has a improved L1 and L2 cache lantency and has a beefy 800 MHz full duplex independant BUS from the Processor to the RAM called (Hyper Transport). I am an Intel man myself but I can see the bad in Intel's proc's as well as AMD's.

Just my non biased 2 cents.

So a Athlon64 754 box with 1GB of RAM would be a nice box for video edt?

i went from a 2400 @ 2.2 to a 3200 on a dfi ut350 ann noticed about a 20% increase in benchmarks that i ran - also this baby folds very very fast - seeing some 4 minute wus.

the socket 939s are out and are not as expensive, but it seems that most of the 939 mbs use pci-e which will be great when they get the bugs worked out and if you have $$ for a new video card

How much performance difference between the 512 and 1MB cache cpu's ?

After much research...I just ordered a 3200-64 (939)
and a foxconn board based on the 755fx chipset.
See the reviews on Anandtech and performance comparisions.
It'll have 2 512mb mushkins running in dual channel.

Originally posted by wvjohn
i went from a 2400 @ 2.2 to a 3200 on a dfi ut350 ann noticed about a 20% increase in benchmarks that i ran - also this baby folds very very fast - seeing some 4 minute wus.

the socket 939s are out and are not as expensive, but it seems that most of the 939 mbs use pci-e which will be great when they get the bugs worked out and if you have $$ for a new video card

I found that it's a lot easier to find a 939 board with AGP than pci-e.