I won an Abit AV8 3rd Eye, which AMD64/939 is best for it?

[RealBlackStuff]

I entered the competition in the VIA Arena Gamers Website, just for fun.
Guess what?
I won! A copy of Call of Duty: United Offensive and best of all:
a brand new ABIT AV8 3rd Eye motherboard!
No processor or memory, though.

Question, which AMD/64 Socket-939 has the best bang for the buck?

 

[Didou]

Best bang for the buck would certainly be the new 3200+ (2GHz) or 3000+ (1.8GHz) chips. The 3500+ is still quite expensive. Be carefull though, the 3200+ & 3000+ are 0.09 parts & most of the time the motherboard needs a BIOS update prior to installing those CPUs or you get not POST at all.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

These prices (from xxx.xx) are in Euro, incl. VAT:

What should I go for, 130nm or the newer 90nm?
The latest BIOS for my mobo is from 12 Nov, 2004

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Newcastle" (130nm), 1800MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 139.30
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Winchester" (90nm), 1800MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 134.74
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "Newcastle" (130nm), 2000MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 178.35
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "Winchester" (90nm), 2000MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 174.38
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ "Newcastle" (130nm), 2200MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 231.01
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ "Winchester" (90nm), 2200MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 244.03
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ "Newcastle" (130nm), 2400MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 540.19
AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 2400MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 1MB L2 Cache from 622.93
AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 2600MHz, 200MHz FSB, Socket 939, Boxed 64 Bit, 512kB L2 Cache from 652.34
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53, 2400MHz, Socket 939, Boxed 64-Bit, 1MB Cache from 774.72
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, 2600MHz, Socket 939, Boxed 64-Bit, 1MB Cache from 715.36

 

[Didou]

The 3200+ (either Winchester or Newcastle) should do nicely. The Winchester based one is less power hungry then the Newcastle but aside from that they both will perform exactly the same.

 

[pizzada]

Hi Didou, you had told me a few days back that the AthlonXPs were not optimized for DUAL CHannel, so I looked into getting an Athlon64, for a socket 939 MoBoard so that I could have DUAL Channel, plus room to upgrade the CPU in a year or so.

Would you mind taking a look at these 2 and telling me if Im wasting my time ?

Motherboard: CHAINTECH "S1689" ALi M1689 Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL ---http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-052&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit Processor - Retail ---
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-501&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

Also, you mentioned to 'RealBlack' about the chips not POSTing on some MoBoards, and might need a BIOS update first....would it be too much to ask how that is done?
This is my first build, and I don't wanna screw anything up..
Thanks, peace.