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Are conroes worth it?

Robert

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I can get:

AMD 939 4600 X2
Asus MVR32 (whatever it's called)

=£260

E6600
Mobo
ram

=£500

Are they that much better to warrant moving over?
 
i have the 939 stk 4800x2 dual core on quad sli 7950GX2 nvidia cards atm

personally for me im not upgrading as of yet !! waits for quad core
 
Robert said:
I can get:

AMD 939 4600 X2
Asus MVR32 (whatever it's called)

=£260

E6600
Mobo
ram

=£500

Are they that much better to warrant moving over?
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I say no tbh. We've reached a point where the mid to top end 939's aren't going to be a bottleneck for a nice long time.

I'm not saying conroe's aren't fast, but system demand at the moment is no where near a justification for spending an extra £240.
 
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Erm... 6300 will save you £100+ and offer similar performance plus be much quicker when clocked.

If you got the Geil on offer for £160, the DS3 for around £100 and the 6300 + cooler for £130 it would be £390. Certainly worth it imo.
 
Confusion said:
quad core is only a few weeks away ;)
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However Quad core is even more and is not aimed at the desktop market.
Intel have already said that dual-core has a desktop life of at least another year with faster & faster chips.

Of course there is the market for quad core - it's just not at a desktop level.
 
Raikiri said:
Erm... 6300 will save you £100+ and offer similar performance plus be much quicker when clocked.

If you got the Geil on offer for £160, the DS3 for around £100 and the 6300 + cooler for £130 it would be £390. Certainly worth it imo.
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Go with this option!
 
Raikiri said:
Erm... 6300 will save you £100+ and offer similar performance plus be much quicker when clocked.

If you got the Geil on offer for £160, the DS3 for around £100 and the 6300 + cooler for £130 it would be £390. Certainly worth it imo.
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agreed
 
Robert said:
Guys I don't want to find that I get a bad clocker and i'm stuck with an E6300...could this happen? If so I'll wait a little longer for the E6600.

Edit:

e6300

Geil 6400 (ThisWeekOnly)

Asus P5B Deluxe or Gigabyte DS3

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7

Would the Asus board be ok? I just like asus for some reason.
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There are so many success stories on here with good e6300 overclocks. i havnt heard of any that overclock bad. You got the same chance with the e6600 anyway. Ive heard good overclocks with the P5B and also with the DS3. Both good boards. So what you chosen is a good system for overclocking.
 
Either board would serve you well, the 'this week only' on the ram is finished though I'm afraid. You could always try calling sales and see if they'll let you have it for the special price though.
 
Robert said:
One thing: are these oc's stable? I will be rendering a lot this year and need a stable PC.
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Well my pc hasnt crashed yet ;) 12 hours running orthos, dual 32mb super pi etc. Nobody that overclocks is gonna leave their system unstable cos it will be crashing all the time. Go check the core 2 duo overclocking thread in this section of the forum for more insight to overclocking a C2D processor.
 
On the CPU bottleneck thing...

I have a 7950GX2 (ressurected yay!) and the performance difference between my core 2 duo at 2.4gig and 3gig is huge - some stuff only shows a marginal performance difference i.e. 3D Marks - other stuff shows a HUGE performance difference... to give an example 3D Marks 03 at 2.4gig gives me ~35K while at 3gig and higher I've gotten 38+K... whereas the half life 2 lost coast video stress test the difference is 150 to 210fps! ok if the engine wasn't hogging CPU then the difference in rendering performance wouldn't be so great... so...

when I see people benchmarking a QUAD 7950GX2 setup on an AMD 3800+ or even X2 4800 and not getting hardly any performance difference between that and a single 7950GX2 I have to laugh (not that QUAD SLI is that great - but unless your running a C2D at atleast 3.5gig then a QUAD 7950GX2 setup is utterly pointless)
 
All i'm going to say is...

unlike the 8800's, the Conroes are WELL worth the performance gain they bring to the table, for the cost involved.

You're going to have to trust us, as it's hard to describe how fast they are, but trust me, you will see a big difference.

I went from a 3400 Athlon64 to an E6300 and to an E6600 and everything feels so much more responsive. The extra core makes quite a difference.
 
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