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Best amd cpu to buy?
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the volt mod is essential and so easy a baby can do it
If you making a cost conscious upgrade now the perceived wisdom is to get an ASRock 939 Dual-SATA2 board in combination with an Opteron 146/148. The slight problem is that Opteron's are not around in abundance.
This system would prove the best bang for buck as 146/148 have been regularly getting up to and beyond 2.8Ghz (FX-57) speeds for considerably less outlay (£150 Vs £700). At this speed an Opteron is identical to an FX-57 and should be faster due to the higher system frequencies to clock it.
This system would prove the best bang for buck as 146/148 have been regularly getting up to and beyond 2.8Ghz (FX-57) speeds for considerably less outlay (£150 Vs £700). At this speed an Opteron is identical to an FX-57 and should be faster due to the higher system frequencies to clock it.
ajgoodfellow said:There's a Quake IV dual core patch that gives a sizable improvement. FEAR is said to have multi-threaded elements and there is a dual core patch for COD2. UT2007 is also said to benefit from dual core processors and the new graphics card drivers increase performance for dual core chips
Isn't the COD2 Duel Core patch just to fix an issue when running on an X2 system, rather than make the game multi-threaded, though?
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4400+ very good cpu clocks to 2.65 easy 2mb cache nuff said
Hi,KingAdora said:
well that XP1900+ is still a useable cpu but everything that is on offer now will perform a lot better.
I think you have shown good self control in not upgrading so long (and saved a buck or two!) but there are some real *bargains* out there now!
As you already saw AMD now have a few different products, but the flavour of the month now are X2's and 1x series Opterons.
I have never used an X2 processor, but I am fairly well read, and on paper they look amazing, however with the hype aside I don't believe that dual core CPU's are quite ready for prime-time yet (not much game support etc). People that use X2 for serious graphics/video-editing work using software that takes *full* advantage of two cores are laughing.
In a year to two years I believe dual-core will be a *must have*, until then I don't think its worth it (unless you can justify having two cores so that your norton anti virus can run faster
)My vote is on a single core cpu, running as fast as possible, currently the best all rounder appears to be the athlon FX57 (2.8GHz) but at its current price offer *POOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* value for money. The current *Bang-for-buck* processor is the Opteron 144/146 which acording to many (many) reports can be overclocked to similar speeds as the FX57 which costs 6x as much.