PC Peripherals AMD upgrade for Multimedia ?

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Hi, I have an A8N SLI premium with 3500+, but its getting laggier more & more & am not a gamer but do make my movies edit / convert & watch them a lot...

I got to choose an upgrade to begin with Rs.5/7ish K (for the moment the lesser the better... maybe will be doing the next better step in christmas...jolly well

1) will moving from 3500 to 3800 X2 Dual Core AM2

make a big diff or I wait for 4000/4200 ?

2) x300se to 7600 GS/GT (I got this suggestion from GFX board)

3) I got 1 GB (512x2) - increase to 2 GB ?

priority wise please advice 1,2,3... and also if anything else you may think might help...

also I got 5500 speakers but is there a decent card (= or better than audigy xs) with easy digital output

thanks guys, you helped configure this system last year now please help upgrade this year :hap2: :cool2: :clap:
 
If you have an ATI GPU, and want to video encode quickly, try Avivo ... its real fast... but has only noob level settings:D ... nothing advanced
 
1) X2 will make a big diff while encoding. The faster the better :D
2) GFX card will make no diff at all, unless you get a radeon X1xxx and avivo. But that didn't really take of very well.
3) More ram will also help. :)
 
Unless you will be getting a really good deal on the 4xxx, I would suggest getting the 3800 and start encoding right away :D
 
Will the new proccies have SSE4? If they do, then definitely wait, as video encoding software will use SSE4 extensively. Otherwise, I guess you can choose. You will always get a better deal by waiting, but by then the better deal may not seem like a better deal.
 
lol...thanks

ok 1 more help if possible...can anyone suggest a scanner with -ve scanner 5/7K range
 
Sandy said:
dude OC that 3500+ :P
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disagree there sandy, no way a single core comes even close to a DC. And its not about whether the app is coded to use multiple processing paths, just the way the dual core's operate. I'd say a 2.6 GHz single core, would be as fast as a 2~2.2 GHz dual core.

Upgrade to that 3800, or wait a bit for a 4200+ Price should be 2K more max :)
 
KingKrool said:
Will the new proccies have SSE4? If they do, then definitely wait, as video encoding software will use SSE4 extensively. Otherwise, I guess you can choose. You will always get a better deal by waiting, but by then the better deal may not seem like a better deal.
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No proccy is gonna have SSE4 until about a year at least :P
 
Baron said:
Hi, I have an A8N SLI premium with 3500+,

1) will moving from 3500 to 3800 X2 Dual Core AM2

make a big diff or I wait for 4000/4200 ?
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May be u know this already, but upgrading from 3500+ to AM2 will call for upgrading the mobo (socket AM2) and RAM (DDR2) as well..
 
AM2 is a waste of money... esp if you are upgrading from 939. Better get a real upgrade... a core 2 duo :P.
 
hey are you guys saying 3800+ etc wont work on my 939 ???? I should have listened last year when some of you guys told me to go for pentium for mumtimedia..., last year amd 64 was the fad, now duo core when will my wallet stop bleeding...maybe next yer applecore :( I think christmas is in for a major overhaul then...
 
lol. well.. if u are lucky enough to find a socket-939 3800+ (dual core) then that would be the basic upgrade u cud do to ur system. Or, look for Opteron 165 (s-939, dual core) which has 2x1MB cache against that of 2x512KB on the 3800+ (s-939). These days the s-939 dual core chips are hardly in supply. U'll have a tough time finding one. But if u r planning a overhaul, then its a no brainer but to go with C2D.
 
an amd x2 3800+ should serve you well .

and a GFX card has got nothing to do with video encoding . its only the processor .
 
ok thanks, so finally upto which AMDs can my A8N sli premium (939) take & is there any upcoming cpu's will not be compatible ? if so I might act now...rather than later... sorry but mask got too technical for a layman like me...
 
hehe.. let me be a less technical this time.

1. What you have (A8N-SLi and 3500+) are socket-939 motherboardboard and processor.
2. The AM2 series of processors you are talking about is a socket-940 (socket-AM2) processor and hence it will not fit in ur existing motherboard.
3. AM2 processors will require you to buy a new compatible motherboard and new DDR2 RAM. the RAM u have with u now are DDR RAM.
4. Performance wise, AM2 processors dont give u much leverage than socket-939. In plain words, its not worth upgrading from socket-939 to socket-AM2 (like Chaos mentioned).

As of this moment, Intel's Core 2 Duo processors with good boards are the king in performance - gaming as well as number crunching.
 
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Baron said:
lol...thanks
ok 1 more help if possible...can anyone suggest a scanner with -ve scanner 5/7K range
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You can try out the CanoScan 4200F must be for 7K, cant really say how good is that but have used its bigger bro the CanoScan 8400F which costed 14K 6 months back.

The 8400 had some grains on very high resolution negative scans when taken on stock but with some tweaks the quality improved.
 
Baron, Socket 939 AthlonX2s come in 3800, 4200, 4400, 4600 & 4800 flavours respectivley. dont know about the availablity, you might have to look around (a lot) or hassle your local friendly comp guy to get it for you.

btw, question aimed at everyone else.. howcome the shortage of 939s? cause newegg is still shipping them, so are most us based websites, noone importing them anymore?
 
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