AMD FX 60 and Current AMD X2 CPU's

[bagman]

Hi there
Currently running a FX-60 and was wondering if any of you guys could give me a rough equivalent with the current AMD X2 CPU's.
For example, would it be fair to say that the FX-60 (2.6Hz ) could be compared to a AMD 64 X2 4800+ or AMD 64 X2 5200+ ??
Am I wrong in thinking that the FX 60 is just a multiplier unlocked 2.6Hz Athlon X2 ??
I appreciate that I am comparing a Socket-939 CPU with a Socket-AM2 so not exactly oranges and oranges, but with some games coming up it would be helpfull to get a close approximate to the latest dual-cores.

Appreciate your assistance

cheers

 

[w3bbo]

Are you changing motherboards or do you already have AM2? If not then I would suggest going for an intel based setup as they perform better atm.

With regards to FX60 and x2 4800 then yes they are basicly the same with the difference being the fx60 comes with an unlocked (up&down) multi as opposed to the downward only unlocked 4800.

Hope this helps.

 

[bagman]

Thank you for replying.

Apologies, I don't think I expained myself very well.
I will not be updating in the near term, but with some games due to be released over the next couple of months (Crysis, CoD4 etc ) I was after a comparison of one of today's AMD CPÚ's compared to my FX-60.

cheers

 

[Amonlym]

the 4800+ (atleast on 939) runs at 2400mhz, not 2600. the FX60 @ 2.6ghz (stock), by amd's normal naming would be called the 5200+.
most game boxes will specify something like "intel P4 / AMD XP 2.4ghz or greater, Core / AMD64 2ghz or greater" atleast in my experience - most have given up on giving the "ratings" completely, esp given the trend to name cpu's totally incomprehensibly is an opty 185 better than a pentium D 915? unless you are educated it means nothing.

i would expect games released in the comming months to start atleast quoting the windows vista performance index number in addition. this should make it much easier.

 

[Bleek]

Also it doesn't take in to account single core.

My opty 144 is a single core running at 2.7GHz but from what I can gather a X2 at similar lower clock speeds will out perform.

Hence my cheap upgrade path would be a ASrock AM2 riser/cpu card, ram and cpu for my S939 ASrock mobo.

For £150 all in it would make a simple upgrade, no mess, no OS changes, just throw the parts on the current board and I'm 'AM2ed-up".

In the current market if you're not chasing the most powerful machine I believe it's *healthy to support AMD, I play 1280x1024 and AMD is more than capable of delivering the figures in my environment.

*We can't let Intel run away with things else prices will creep, a monopoly isn't a good thing.