AMD equivalent of E5200?

[fozzybear]

As title. Which AMD chip is similar to the E5200? Moneys too tight to mention at the moment and i'm tempted to get an ultra cheap new build together. Is the AMD X2 4200+ a decent buy at £29.99?

 

[Lightnix]

I'll just echo what I said in this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17936356

The 6000+ is about the same speed as the E5200, but the E5200 will clock by a higher percentage, run cooler and costs less.

That said, the 4200+ for £29.99, well you can't really complain for that kind of price can you? According to this, the 4000+ is faster than the nearest price competitor to the 4200+, the Celeron E1200, so for the money, the 4200+ is a good chip.

 

[fozzybear]

Sorry, forgot about that thread. The 5000+ can be had for around £38. Compared to the E5200 and its price, is that a reasonable alternative?

 

[cpatain-chaos]

if you're simply browsing / photo editing / light gaming then the 4200 is a snip at that price and will do the job.

 

[Trunks9486]

The 5000+ Black is a good processor if you can find it cheap enough, it can overclock to 3GHz quite easily.

 

[Pulseammo]

I have a bone to pick with the link posted in the other thread showing the 6000+ to be about the same as the E5200 in games. Those tests show absolutely nothing, the games aren't running at real world resolution, they are being run at a low resolution to test only the CPU, and quite frankly, who cares, they may have run super pi again for all we should care. When you're running a game you want to know what effect dropping a CPU in has on the effect of the system as a whole at a setting that you'd actually game at, they've already posted pure number crunching benchmarks, they didn't need to post another useless set.

I'm not saying that the 6000 isn't on par with the E5200 for number crunching tasks, I'm simply saying those gaming benchmarks (if that's what you're interested in) are about as useless as a chocolate teapot imo.

Edit: Just to make sure people absolutely understand this, my statements are only related to the gaming benchmarks, the OP should really specify whether he is actually looking to do number crunching tasks, I'm just fed up of seeing gaming benchmarks where they may as well have just run some other integer test again.

Edit 2: For clarity I'm talking about this link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2duo-e7300-pdc-e5200_6.html#sect0

 

[fozzybear]

I'll be using it for a bit of everything. eg. Photoshop, gaming. I'll stick with the e5200. It'll be my first Intel build. Lets hope i'm not disappointed.