From a Athlon 64 3000 to a X2 3800

[Ace Modder]

What kind of performance increase will I see...
New CPU is being del on Saturday for me

Also has 2GB RAM, and a X1950XT etc...

 

[hp7909]

Going from 64 3000+ to X2 4600+ I sow a tremendous increase in multi-tasking, converting videos & other general usage. Gaming not much since I did not change my (pathetic) GFX. I guess on yours with that amount RAM & GFX you should see some good gains

Don't forget to install the Dual-Core optimizer (here)

 

[MeatLoaf]

Yeah as above id say you'd get a pretty decent performance increase with the X2

 

[geeza]

would going from an opteron [email protected] to a X2 3800 clocked around 2.7ghz be a good increase or not?

 

[Tetras]

In what?

 

[geeza]

windows and games, including newer games like supreme commander.

It has got 1/2 the cache per core that my opteron has though

 

[555BUK]

windows and games, including newer games like supreme commander.

It has got 1/2 the cache per core that my opteron has though

To be honest, unless you multitask or do much video encoding you will not notice any real difference with dual-core.

 

[geeza]

To be honest, unless you multitask or do much video encoding you will not notice any real difference with dual-core.

waht about future games, ill be getting the 3800 for not much more than what i will sell my opteron for hopefully aswell

 

[squiffy]

waht about future games, ill be getting the 3800 for not much more than what i will sell my opteron for hopefully aswell

555buk is right, there really isn't much difference between SC and DC (of identical core speeds) unless you do heavy multi-tasking plus want the system to be responsive.

Try encoding music high priority then play a game. I can do that on my DC. Forget it on the SC.

However Windows itself will use DC so any "100% CPU spike" from a application won't halt the system for that split second.

A dual core is nice to have though, and with the prices now it's a no brainer.

 

[allllec]

waht about future games, ill be getting the 3800 for not much more than what i will sell my opteron for hopefully aswell

by the time games are multithreaded your upgrade plans probably would have changed.. so it might not be worth committing just yet.. just an idea anyway

either way good luck

Alec

 

[calnen]

Supreme commander *does* use dual cores, and it makes a big difference. (This is comparing my single-core athlon 64 with a friends core-2 duo, using the same graphics card and ram. His is *much* faster in the game!)

SC loves dual-core. Go on, you know you want to

 

[riddlermarc]

Don't forget to install the Dual-Core optimizer (here)

Would I need to install this under Vista (I am assuming so)?

 

[hp7909]

Would I need to install this under Vista (I am assuming so)?

Don't think so. Think its a fix for XP. Vista, MS should have sorted that out themselves or should not be an issue anymore...

The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.