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3400+ vs Conroe 6300

BurningHorizons

BurningHorizons

BurningHorizons

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Hello,

I'm in the horrible situation that to go to decent Conroe spec is going to cost me +£500.

I currently have:
3400+ Clawhammer at stock
Epox NF3
1GB Crucial DDR
6800 Ultra AGP

It's a great stable system that has served me well for two years.

So I don't have to upgrade everything at once I'm seriously considering going for the Asrock 775Dual-VSTA with a Core 2 DUO E6300 for £160.
This means that I can keep my graphics card and memory and update those to PCI-E and DDR2 at a later date.

Would you upgrade to the above, stick with what I've got, or go whole hog and stick +£500 (more like £800 to do it right!) on the the credit card.

Due to board limitations, I will not be overclocking very much.

What would you do?
What is the performace difference likely to be?
Is it worth upgading at all?
 
wizardmaxx said:
Depends if your current setup does everything u want it to.
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It does, but if the performance difference will be greater, I'll upgrade for the £160. I should still be able to get £70 for my current CPU and mobo too.
 
I think the Asrock board will limit you as you already know, so perfomance wise benchmarks will show goood improvement but in normal use you might not notice much difference, you will probably be a little dissapointed and will have to spend the extra cash to get a better overclock and really see the benefits of conroe.
 
If you can get £40 for the 3400 then it'll only cost another £60 for a xs (edit x2 sorry) 3800 which sounds pretty tempting.

Pos do that and wait for the quad core intel thingy (I haven't researched this as you can tell) which may see dual core conroe prices drop.
 
3800 x2 is going set u back 110 excl while e6300 if only a fiver more and at stock outperforms the 4600 x2. Thats the biggest problem here. Price to performance.
 
PeteLucky7 said:
If you can get £40 for the 3400 then it'll only cost another £60 for a xs 3800 which sounds pretty tempting.

Pos do that and wait for the quad core intel thingy (I haven't researched this as you can tell) which may see dual core conroe prices drop.
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Personally don't think conroe will drop in price when kentsfield is released. They have cornered the market at the moment and they know it. Major price drops will only happen if AMD release something that can compete at a similar price.
 
wizardmaxx said:
3800 x2 is going set u back 110 excl while e6300 if only a fiver more and at stock outperforms the 4600 x2. Thats the biggest problem here. Price to performance.
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Especially when considering how much C2D overclocks as well, for the price of an E6300 you can have performance better than top of the range AMD.
 
well i know how good E6300 is,but honestly i don't wish to pay that much for a pc,but on the other site i'm kinda crazy for this pc configuration here!!
E6300,1024 MB DDR II,Mobo Gigabyte,Vga Ati Radeon x1600Pro 512MB DDRII PCi,200GB SATA II (8MB 7200rpm) DVD DL,card reader,....
I guess i'll wait till crimbo and will than buy it to my self,but who knows maybe earlier!! :D :D :D ;)
 
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