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AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+

Stearsy

Stearsy

Stearsy

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Hey, been looking at this recently and not sure if its worth upgrading. At the moment i have AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and was just wondering if you guys think dual core is the way forward.

I've been doing a lot of video editing recently and sometimes games dont run as perfect as i would like. What do you guys think, or is it not worth the upgrade yet?

Pc specs are on sig.
Many Thanks

Stearsy
 
It is a good upgrade path.
In game performance you will be no faster, but multitasking will be so much better.
You know longer have to worry about closing loads of tasks to play a game like you may have had to on a single core.

As to what the others are saying, upgrade the RAM, 2GB of RAM is excellent with a dualcore, I wouldn't bother with the graphicsa card just yet, (depending on your budget ofcourse)
 
King_Boru said:
Nothing wrong with what he has.
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The thread did state games don't run as he would like. A Cpu and/or ram won't make a great difference to games.....a new graphics card would.

I am sure you would agree?

At the end of the day its all about buget.

King_Boru I guess you have the same card?

Matt
 
Yea im defintily thinking about getting this, just checked motherboard website and i think it works with it, however i need someone to confirm for me because it says

Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core (Manchester, 90nm, L2 Cache 2 x 512KB

Works: OK

My only concern is that it says, 'Manchster' but yet at the start it says 'Athlon'?? Can someone please confirm that this works before i make my purchase, cheers!

The link to the motherboard info
Here
 
Its a good upgrade path and from above, OcUK, seem to have decent X2 3800's in.

The X2 3800+ would improve your games, even without changing the graphics card a bit. However, to improve them the most is to change to a PCI-E board. Getting the quavilant graphics card but in PCI-E would provide better performance still.

Going to Dual Core A64 would be a good idea, if you decide to go to PCI-E aswell. Without a PCI_E you havnt got any further upgradeability tbh.

If you was to sell the MSI Neo2 board you have now with the A64 3200+ and AGP 6800 graphics card. You could get a decent Dual Core A64 and PCI-E setup.

That is what I recommend :)
 
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