Well, I was looking at processors and I found that I can pick up an older Newcastle 3400+ clocked at 2.4 GHz that actually outperforms the newer Winchester one using the 90nm. Actually, sorry it's the 3200+ NC that outperforms the Winch and the 3400+ NC performs close to the 3500+ Winchester.
The only problem with the 3400+ is that it is only available on the older 754 socket. Are there any huge performance problems with this. I remember waiting to see the impact of 939, I thought it was gonna be huge with a dual channel memory controller but it ended up not really doing much.
Just wondering if I should take advantage of the low price and high performance of the chip, but unsure of what I am giving up by not using the 939 socket aside from upgrading, I don't care about upgradablity.
EDIT: The numbers are given like this 2200/250 for the 3500+ and 2400/200 for the 3400+ what does this second number signify? FSB?
The only problem with the 3400+ is that it is only available on the older 754 socket. Are there any huge performance problems with this. I remember waiting to see the impact of 939, I thought it was gonna be huge with a dual channel memory controller but it ended up not really doing much.
Just wondering if I should take advantage of the low price and high performance of the chip, but unsure of what I am giving up by not using the 939 socket aside from upgrading, I don't care about upgradablity.
EDIT: The numbers are given like this 2200/250 for the 3500+ and 2400/200 for the 3400+ what does this second number signify? FSB?