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Any benefits upgrading to an X2

Hawklord

Hawklord

Hawklord

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Hi, I've recently upgraded my mobo and graphics card to PCI-e and have an Asus A8N5X and a powercolour X1800XT 512mb. I'm currently running it all with an A64 3500+ Newcastle CPU @2.4 Ghz and was wondering whether there would be any benefits to upgrading to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4200BVBOX) (CP-126-AM)?
What improvements to gaming would it give me and what would I have to do to my current software as I've only just done a re-insatll of windows in my last upgrade and don't really want to go through all that again. Is it just a matter of out with the old and in with the new cpu and installing different drivers or something?
I've got a buyer for my old cpu and mobo so what would be a reasonable price for the A64 3500+(with Swiftech MCX6400-V HSF) Newcastle and Asus A8V delux mobo?

thanks
 
I upgraded from a 3700 and noticed a heck of a lot of difference in Windows and doing more than 1 thing at once. I have no regrets.

I don't do that much gaming so can't comment there.
 
Shouldn't need to reinstall, depends what you use your pc for tbh. Gaming depends on the game. For everything else is definately worthwhile.
 
wilders said:
Theres not a lot of difference in gaming as games arent utilising the dual core yet....
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True but if you have one core taking care of the windows bits n bobs it leaves one core compleatly free to run your game, so it's not going to suddenly slow down when windows desides to do a random defrag or somthing just as spazzy.
 
wilders said:
Theres not a lot of difference in gaming as games arent utilising the dual core yet....
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No but i am sure that games will utilise dual core soon and if the op buys dualcore then he will be ready..I have dualcore and i think it,s fantastic for doing multiple things and my pc not slowing down trying to cope :) ..
 
Been thinking about this myself as well. I have a winchester 3500 running at 2.6gig. Whats the equivalent X2 chip to match that, if you assume only one core working, i.e. games? Do they clock ok on half multipliers?
 
Fx 60 runs two cores at 2.6 with 1 meg cache on each. The winchester has half the cache.
My opty 165 runs at 2.45 on my as rock so is roughly equivilent to 2 x A64 3800's with twice the cache.
They dont like half multis.
 
I had a massive improvement in Quake4, small improvement in Oblivion (with tweaks) and multi-tasking in windows can't be beat.

with a x2 3800 at stock
 
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