Dual core?

[Abyss of Borg]

Well I have a question I'm building my new system and in the process of ordering parts and am wondering about the CPU heavily. First of all I want to know if the 939 X2 3800+ is going down in price soon? I've heard rumors about it. Well I want to get that if the price drop rumors are true. But anyway my main choices right now are either a single core AMD like a 3200+ or maybe an Opteron 144 or a the lowest end Pentium D on a stretched budget. My system is for gaming pretty much. Should I be that desperate for dual core that I just get the cheapest one out there? Is it worth it?

 

[BBA]

Well I have a question I'm building my new system and in the process of ordering parts and am wondering about the CPU heavily. First of all I want to know if the 939 X2 3800+ is going down in price soon? I've heard rumors about it. Well I want to get that if the price drop rumors are true. But anyway my main choices right now are either a single core AMD like a 3200+ or maybe an Opteron 144 or a the lowest end Pentium D on a stretched budget. My system is for gaming pretty much. Should I be that desperate for dual core that I just get the cheapest one out there? Is it worth it?

I don't know about the price coming ddown, especially when a few weeks ago AMD announced it did not have materials to keep producing the base the die sits on so the production will be reduced below the demand...sounds like prices will likely go up instead.

 

[Stevennoland]

If you can wait about five months, AMD is supposed to release their M2 cores. This is such a short time to wait. You can use it as an exercise in patience and save some more money.

 

[discochan]

Well I have a question I'm building my new system and in the process of ordering parts and am wondering about the CPU heavily. First of all I want to know if the 939 X2 3800+ is going down in price soon? I've heard rumors about it. Well I want to get that if the price drop rumors are true. But anyway my main choices right now are either a single core AMD like a 3200+ or maybe an Opteron 144 or a the lowest end Pentium D on a stretched budget. My system is for gaming pretty much. Should I be that desperate for dual core that I just get the cheapest one out there? Is it worth it?

Even though the 3800+ is the cheapest dual core chip out there most people get it. Its a great chip and you should get it if you can. It can be easily OCed to the higher dual core chip speeds.