One of the guys I work with is going to take the plunge to dual core, and on my recommendation he's going conroe.
See he has an XP3200+ machine, with 1GB Corsair Value ram, and a 6600GT in an MSI board (not sure which one)
Now he's not a gamer, but he does like to take his digital video camera and make family films of his grandchildren etc. All that encoding and handeling big video files is proving to be just too much for the old 3200 to handle. He said this has to be done real cheaply. He originally was just going to get an asrock dual board and an X2-3800 which would cost him, if i'm right, about £150 and would have been a solid enough upgrade.
But i though.. if your gonna use an asrock board that supports agp and pcie why not make it and intel one... then, he could also make the processor a conroe
So i had a look and i see asrock do infact do basically the same board for the conroe as the S939 one, with it also supporting DDR1 and DDR2.
I figured it'd do him just fine.
So we're looking at about £50 inc delivery for the board (had to source from another e-tailer) and an E6300 for about £140ish delivered. so that'd be £200 to go from SKTA XP3200 to a Core2Duo. Can't be bad. I know the asrock will probably be a poor overclocker but to be honest I don't think he will overclock it.
He is asking me if it would be worth his while putting another hundred in the kitty and getting an E6600 instead since he read a review about it recently and got him hooked. Thing is, i'm thinking that the DDR1 and old AGP card will be a real bottleneck so i figured it wasn't worth the extra hundred especially if he wasn't overclocking.
I figured he could get about a hundred for his old mobo and cpu on the bay to help compensate for his layout on the new board n chip. My way it's only costing him a theoretical £100 for a pretty big speed increase.
So yeah, what do you guys think?
Asrock Dual Intel based with E6300 for ~£200
Asrock Dual Intel based with E6600 for ~£300
Asrock Dual AMD based with X2-3800 for ~£150
You could basically take upto £100 off all those costs since i'm sure he will get around that for his old mobo n cpu, as i mentioned above.
See he has an XP3200+ machine, with 1GB Corsair Value ram, and a 6600GT in an MSI board (not sure which one)
Now he's not a gamer, but he does like to take his digital video camera and make family films of his grandchildren etc. All that encoding and handeling big video files is proving to be just too much for the old 3200 to handle. He said this has to be done real cheaply. He originally was just going to get an asrock dual board and an X2-3800 which would cost him, if i'm right, about £150 and would have been a solid enough upgrade.
But i though.. if your gonna use an asrock board that supports agp and pcie why not make it and intel one... then, he could also make the processor a conroe
So i had a look and i see asrock do infact do basically the same board for the conroe as the S939 one, with it also supporting DDR1 and DDR2.
I figured it'd do him just fine.
So we're looking at about £50 inc delivery for the board (had to source from another e-tailer) and an E6300 for about £140ish delivered. so that'd be £200 to go from SKTA XP3200 to a Core2Duo. Can't be bad. I know the asrock will probably be a poor overclocker but to be honest I don't think he will overclock it.
He is asking me if it would be worth his while putting another hundred in the kitty and getting an E6600 instead since he read a review about it recently and got him hooked. Thing is, i'm thinking that the DDR1 and old AGP card will be a real bottleneck so i figured it wasn't worth the extra hundred especially if he wasn't overclocking.
I figured he could get about a hundred for his old mobo and cpu on the bay to help compensate for his layout on the new board n chip. My way it's only costing him a theoretical £100 for a pretty big speed increase.
So yeah, what do you guys think?
Asrock Dual Intel based with E6300 for ~£200
Asrock Dual Intel based with E6600 for ~£300
Asrock Dual AMD based with X2-3800 for ~£150
You could basically take upto £100 off all those costs since i'm sure he will get around that for his old mobo n cpu, as i mentioned above.