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Athlon to replace a Intel

timboellis said:
I had recently a Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8mhz 800 cant remeber the exact model with 2 gig of ram the question is this.

I was going to buy an Anthlon X2 64 4000 with 1 gig of ram will I notice any difference any way slower or faster for general usage and some far cry and would it be work getting another 1 gig stick as they were/will be runnign XP ?
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Absolutely no point in the switch tbh.

A c2d (I assume E4300 from your post about clocks) is give or take a couple of % is basically the same as a 4000/4200+ X2 anyway.

The swap would be fruitless.

If you really want some extra performance just up the FSB of the c2d to 1066mhz netting a nice 2.4ghz or basically a E6600 (-5% ish for the lack of L2 cache).
 
oweneades said:
Absolutely no point in the switch tbh.

A c2d (I assume E4300 from your post about clocks) is give or take a couple of % is basically the same as a 4000/4200+ X2 anyway.

The swap would be fruitless.

If you really want some extra performance just up the FSB of the c2d to 1066mhz netting a nice 2.4ghz or basically a E6600 (-5% ish for the lack of L2 cache).
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Again: I think ye are all miss reading the OP.

"I had recently a Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8mhz"

If he recently had, then he probably doesn't currently have! It probably was a loan or had the use of a friends PC.
 
Buying the AMD based on "bangs per buck" is a false economy imo - the conroe is far superior in many areas even when not overclocked... media encoding or file compression any one?

At the end of the day going from a 1.8gig conroe to a X2 4000+ isn't going to be hugely different for most end users (if you don't count your framerates) windows performance will be similiar, games should still get playable framerates, things should still run smoothly... you might not get as good benchmark results and might not have anything like as good overclocking potential - but unless your a diehard enthusiast you may never notice the difference...

I still say go for a conroe tho :D
 
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