FX60 and 4000+ San Diego

[Vault5ChOnG]

Hello,

Ive been on about this for awhile now and im still not clear on a few things. Firstly my setup is:

MSI RD480 Neo2
2x 1GB Geil Dual Channel RAM
Connect3d X1900XT-X 512MB
RADEON X1900 Crossfire Edition 512MB
AMD64 4000+ San Diego
FSP Sparkle 700W PSU

Now ive been told that having top of the range gfx and that cpu is bottlenecking my system. Which i would agree where ive spent over £700 on gfx and havnt updated my cpu. But i was on asking here before and was told that the FX series would be a waste of money and would not notice a huge performance difference.

Im thinking of going for the FX60, ive spent so much on the rest of my pc i would like to finish it off.I mainly use my pc for gaming and video editng.

So my question would be, Should i go for the FX60? Is my +4000 holding back my gfx? Could i maybe get a Intel CPU which outperforms the +4000 under the price of the FX60 as i would need a new mobo.

Thanks for your suggestions

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

Thanks for replys.

Im not in the knowhow of overclocking so default clock speeds will have to do for me .

Explicit: That im not an overclocker would buying a conroe be silly to do also?

The whole thing confuses me tbh. That a fx60 is only 2.6Gz 1mbCache and my 4000+ is 2.4gz and 1mbCache and the price difference between them is huge.

If i was only using this for games, would a X2 4800+ 2.4Gz 1MB L2 cache outperform my 4000+ 2.4Gz 1MB L2 cache as they are same speeds?

Thanks for helping a confused man out

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

Thanks for clearing that up for me m8 Think ill just wait till the dual core games come along and then think about it again.

PS: I go through stages like this every month btw (wanting to buy something). So if you spot me going to do stupid things just slap me back down to earth again .

Thanks again.

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

By going down the conroe route, would i see a noticable performance difference in games(FPS)/video editing(rendering movies) compared to what i have now?

And that X2 4400 OEM is only 2.2Gz and my 4000+ is 2.4 so would i be right in saying i would loose performance in my games(single thread)?

With my gfx running at 1280x1024 and DX7/DX9 with x4 antianalising on in call of duty 2 i get frame drops to 40ish in smoke/dust etc. This is where i want the extra performance gain. coz even 80fps i can feel the choppyness i love the smoothness feeling of high frames per second.

I always thought when i got my crossfire setup i would be able to crank all my settings up full and run any game with high fps without no dips in framerate. So this is making me think its my cpu holding my gfx back from there potential performance. Am i right in thinking this? or is 70fps considered high and playable when talking about these kind of things?

Cheers

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

Thanks once again . Am i better waiting still they are released? or should i pre-order?.(the conroes).

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

Ah, what kind of confusion? You would think the ones thay say "support next gen intel" should be ok.

Ill wait off anyways, by that time ill probably finished paying off my last upgrade LOL

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

K thanks a lot lads, Ill wait till theres more info on this and post back soon to see whats happening

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

Yeh, money is no problem for me. I have spent a bunch on crossfire setup which im running at the moment so i want to top if off with a top of the range cpu to finish my system as i feel the 4000+ is holding me back on the potential performance i could be getting.

So any conroe will out perform my 4000+ is what your telling me? even the 2.4gz conroe which is same speed as my current cpu? Sorry for more questions, im just not to clever when it comes to statistics

 

[Vault5ChOnG]

I'm not sure how the lower end Conroes compare, but the E6600 listed above will outperform your 4000+ by quite some way

Thats what i wanted to know im a happy boy now lol.