I am going to upgrade soon (as in build a new computer) and wanted to know wat is the speed of a 939-pin AMD® Athlon-64 X2 3800+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology. Also what would i need to run it with out burning it out.

It has 2 cores, running at 2.0ghz each. All you need is the standard heatsink/fan that comes in the pack. It will run plenty cool with that. FX-57 @ 3.1ghz 4GB of OCZ PC-4200 500GBx4 drive array Sapphire X850 XT-PE Fujitsu 1920x1080 projector

thanks. Also does that mean it will run at 4.oghz or wat? Also nice rig u got there.

this is wat my computer will consist of. i would like your opinion A MSI K8N Neo4-F nForce4 chipset w/7.1 sound GB lan S-ATA Raid USB 2.0 PCI-E mother board,420 watt power, ati x800gt 16xpci-e 256mb 1024 mb of ram (512x2), 160gb western digital harddrive 7200rpm ultra ATA-100 2mb cache, creative labs soundblaster audigy-2 z platnium. tell me if im missising any thing. Besides the case cuase i got that covered.

No the 3800+ means it will do task equal to a Pentium D for a Pentiumn 4 at 3.8ghz. No these chips won't go higher then 2.8ghz as in real ghz speed. The next generation from what I have been reading that will be on the 65nm and will indeed reach real speeds of 4ghz and beyond.

bring on the ghz... Coincidently, 65nm will drastically reduce thermal energy outpoint aswell, so not only will it be fast, it will also be cool... well, cool-er. A good example is nvidia's 7800, being as the manufacturing process on the 7800 is smaller then that of the 6800, thus it does not reguire a massive two slot occupying heatsink as the 6800u's do. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. --Kierkegaard--

Yeah so basiclly what you are getting with the X2's are nothing more then either 2 Venice cores slapped together or 2 San Diego cores slapped together based on the combined cache size.