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Originally Posted by UncleMacro
have 64 bits in case you need to add a lot of RAM someday.
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While it true that 64bit can handle alot more ram then 32bit but if he ever wants more then 4gb he going to have to buy a new motherboard again because none of the current skt 939 motherboards supports more then 4gb of ram.
Besides that I pretty much agree with everything UncleMacro siad. I would like to secound his point that if you getting a athlon 64 3200 MAKE SURE YOU GET THE VEINCE CORE. Like he said San diago also a great core but they tend to only come in higher model then the 3200+. The lowest San diago core I can think of off the top of my head is the 3700+. Also good core are the manchester and the torldo but those are the dual core cpus and are very expensive.
Like he said unless you a extreme gamer SLI will do no good for you. I would get something with the Nforce4 ultra chipset.
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First, I've heard that AMD is gradually phasing out support for the older sockets, and 939 will be the "socket of the future." Is this accurate?
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skt 939 should be around for a few years but nothing last for ever. I think on there road map they have something called the M2 socket(940 pins but not compatiable with the 940 pin motherboard out right now).
Socket A is pretty much dead right now. all new cpu this year will be skt 754 semprons and skt 939 athlons 64/x2.
Some general things like already mention in the single core market pentium does a bit better with video rendering(things are alot more competive in the dual core market). Pentiums 4 tend to do a bit better in mutitasking to do to hyperthreading which better allows it to handle 2 threads at the same time(again this only counts for the single core market).
In gaming athlon 64 are the clear winner.
I think most likly you will be very happy with a athlon 64 3200+. I think it will perform just fine for your needs. the differences between the athlon 64 and pentiums 4 I mention in the last paragragh are pretty small in reality.