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anyone gone c2d to am2?

I havent, but a friend of mine did from a e22xx something, to a 5000+ BE and a AM2+ motherboard and some ATI 3870's. He prefers it, and I'm not one to argue lol. Just prefered the system as a whole, not sure why.
 
After a number of people arguing with me that AMD is better for everything full stop and that I had no experience of an AM2 setup, I actually went and bought/tested the hardware against my E6300 and as expected, like my previous S939 Toledo vs LGA775 Conroe comparisons it simply backs up what 99% of this forum know already. :rolleyes:

There's nothing wrong with an Athlon 64 X2 setup and realistically unless you buy computers for benchmarking or counting how many seconds it takes for you to encode or render you'd often struggle to notice the difference between the two setups (assuming they're both operating at the same clock frequencies and with the same memory, graphics cards, background processes).

Just as equally, it means that it makes absolutely no sense to do something that is a side step at best. I'm not sure why someone would swap from Core 2 Duo to Athlon 64 X2 but it's certainly not for superior performance.
 
If you don't overlcock, mid to high range X2's destroy low range c2d's / Pentium Dual cores. Aside fro that, I see little other reason.
 
I can see why someone would go for an amd setup from the start instead of intel
It is far far cheaper
I recently bought a Q6600 setup with loads of top notch gear cost me a bomb about £1000
my friend asked me to work out an amd system for him
came to about £300
 
Nickolai said:
I can see why someone would go for an amd setup from the start instead of intel
It is far far cheaper
I recently bought a Q6600 setup with loads of top notch gear cost me a bomb about £1000
my friend asked me to work out an amd system for him
came to about £300
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What so the C2D cost you £700 on top when compared to the equivalent £300 AMD system?
 
Nickolai said:
I can see why someone would go for an amd setup from the start instead of intel
It is far far cheaper
I recently bought a Q6600 setup with loads of top notch gear cost me a bomb about £1000
my friend asked me to work out an amd system for him
came to about £300
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... so your comparing your top notch system for £1000 with a cheap budget system for £300 and then saying it was cheaper? i could get a P4 full system for £70... whats your point
 
Nickolai said:
I can see why someone would go for an amd setup from the start instead of intel
It is far far cheaper
I recently bought a Q6600 setup with loads of top notch gear cost me a bomb about £1000
my friend asked me to work out an amd system for him
came to about £300
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Sorry but your arguement is rubbish and simply does not hold up. You are comparing a high spec Intel rig against a budget AMD rig. Now go and compare a quad core AMD rig against it and you will find that it is more expensive than the Intel rig. You can buy a C2D based rig for a similar price or even cheaper (depending on where you shop) than an AMD rig.
 
Nickolai said:
I can see why someone would go for an amd setup from the start instead of intel
It is far far cheaper
I recently bought a Q6600 setup with loads of top notch gear cost me a bomb about £1000
my friend asked me to work out an amd system for him
came to about £300
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ofcourse a q6600 etc system will be more expensive than a low end amd..
 
My Pentium 120mhz cost £1300,yet my current rig cost <£900!.

I'm so glad i went for a quad core setup, Pentium I's are a complete rip-off!!
 
Can get a nice e2140 setup for around £300 clock the chip to 3GHz and you are hard pushed to find a faster AMD system :D Why buy/move to inferior CPUs?
 
look dont get your knickers in a twist
my point was merely that amd rigs are cheaper IF! you arent upgrading as such and are basically buying a whole new system i say this because of the upgrade paths available in the future, whether mine is top notch or not it doesnt matter and i should have added more information in the first post.

and my point was that if you was about to make a new system and price was more important than performance then in my opinion going with amd would be a better option because...

AthlonX2 4400? 2.5ghz i think is about £50
Ballistix £50
Crossfire AM2 mobo £50 (and if i recall correctly there is one on OCuk with the 790fx chipset)

and intel
c2d 2.0 ghz is £50 (im not sure whether a 2.5ghz athlon is faster or slower than this)
ballistix £50
P35 motherboard about £55

but!!! with amd you dont require a new motherboard to eventually upgrade to the phenom if you wanted to nor a new socket like most of us of intel will need if we eventually want to go with nehalem,

and to the guy who mentioned overclocking i made this post in the assumption that someone wouldnt be overclocking

i should have included more information in my first post and for that i apologize but don't be getting all worked up about a rather daft question in the first place because if anyone had a c2d system and wanted to upgrade they would simply buy a better processor or overclock the existing one rather than 'downgrade' to Athlons or phenom
 
i've always bought amd in the past for performance per £, and overclockability

now intel excels in these fields, so getting a c2d soon
 
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