Im thinking of of replacing my AMD Athlon 64 4000 San Diego (socket 939) CPU to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (socket 939). Will this effect my gaming performance? I know the 4400 has dual core but its clock rate is 2200 MHz compared to the 2400 MHz of the 4000 san diego. Better for multitasking for sure, but how does it hold up gaming wise?
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AMD Athlon 64 4000 San Diego Vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+
- Thread starter baz76
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thanks for all the help so far. I bought the X2 4400+ and installed it today. I overclocked it slowly to 2.6 Ghz using:-
frequency: 260
multiplyer: 10
vcore: 1.475 v
HTT : x4
this held out ok for a while, played a few games and such with CPU temps reaching 35 idle and 48 loaded. But when i used benchmark 06 it froze during the CPU test. so ive i gone back down to 2200 for the time being. The thing is, im not sure what my memory should be clocked at. Ive got a dual channel PC4000 (2 gig in total) and dual channel PC2700 (128MX64 DDR) (2 gig also) Totalling 4 gig altogether. Could this be causing conflicts? Heres the rest of the system:-
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Socket 939) CPU
- AMD Freezer 64 Pro Approved Cooler
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Dual Channel Kit
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC2700 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Onboard Sound
- Tagan TG600-U25 600W Dual Engine ATX2.01 SLi Compliant Silent PSU
(Im also looking to get another 7900GTX and use SLI)
frequency: 260
multiplyer: 10
vcore: 1.475 v
HTT : x4
this held out ok for a while, played a few games and such with CPU temps reaching 35 idle and 48 loaded. But when i used benchmark 06 it froze during the CPU test. so ive i gone back down to 2200 for the time being. The thing is, im not sure what my memory should be clocked at. Ive got a dual channel PC4000 (2 gig in total) and dual channel PC2700 (128MX64 DDR) (2 gig also) Totalling 4 gig altogether. Could this be causing conflicts? Heres the rest of the system:-
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Socket 939) CPU
- AMD Freezer 64 Pro Approved Cooler
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC4000 Dual Channel Kit
- 2GB (2x1GB) DDR PC2700 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Onboard Sound
- Tagan TG600-U25 600W Dual Engine ATX2.01 SLi Compliant Silent PSU
(Im also looking to get another 7900GTX and use SLI)
I'm not sure what i should be aiming for as far overclocking my ram. Is the mixed ram such a problem? I don't know what clock speed its operating at, as it was set to auto in BIOS. Could this have resulted in the ram clock speed falling as the CPU speed increased? Ive set it to manual now, but i have no idea where to start.
Ive got the 4400+ stable at 2.4 GHz. I'm not going to push it much further until I'm sure what to do as far my mixed ram is concerned.
Oh. and gunnar the X2 4400+ fared much better than the single 4000+ in the overall performance benches i performed. Also, Games that are dual core aware are noticeably smoother but older games tend to show some of its limitations.
Ive got the 4400+ stable at 2.4 GHz. I'm not going to push it much further until I'm sure what to do as far my mixed ram is concerned.
Oh. and gunnar the X2 4400+ fared much better than the single 4000+ in the overall performance benches i performed. Also, Games that are dual core aware are noticeably smoother but older games tend to show some of its limitations.
OK, Ive removed the PC2700 which leaves me with the two sticks of PC4000. My CPU is currently overclocked to 2.4 GHz. Should i be thinking of overclocking my ram as well? The system seems stable at the moment but I'm really hoping to achieve 2.6 GHz in the long run.