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going from amd to intel.

johnno

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well for christams i will be upgrading my system i will be going from a athlon x2 3800 at 2.5ghz. to a e6300 and will be overlcocking obviously. but the main reason i will be upgrading is to play css as i feel the game feels quite unrepsonsive atm. will upgrading to the e6300. give me any performance increase in css. fps, overall feeling of the game???
 
Indeed. Though an E6300 would be a great upgrade a 3800+ should be able to nicely handle CS:S when coupled with a capable GPU. What's your graphics card and at what resolution do you game?
 
An e6300 would not make much difference (if any) in REALITY, if he gets a good buy from his old CPU then sure go for an e6300 though.

i guess his current system may not be setup properly.

--Jonny
 
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amd athlon 3800+ @2.5ghz
2gb of generic ram
asus a8n-e
x1800xt 256mb

i would have thought this would be enough to handle cs:s. but dosent seem like it i play it at highest res with medium detail.
 
AMD Athlon 4600+ @ 3ghz
DFI lanparty UT ultra-d skt 939
OCZ gold xtc pc3200 2gb
BFG 8800gtx

I got around 100fps average on source ( all high , aa etc etc )

Switched over to a :

Intel core2duo e6600
EVGA 680i
BFG 8800gtx
Corsair dominator 2gb pc6400 (this was when i didnt overclock)

With the intel system i get around 300fps + average so.. big performance increase for me .
 
benchmarking source is very CPU based... even with my E6600 @ 3gig it will peg the default fps_max 300 cap pretty much all the way through the stress test with max settings...
 
My old 2ghz 3200 venice ran this on high with no problems with an X800 no aa, so how an X2 seems sluggish seems very odd! Silly question but have you installed all your drivers inc the amd dual core driver?
 
According to Tomshardware....a e6400 at stock speeds is about the same speed as a X2 4800-5000+ AMD. So anything heavy on CPU, like the Source tester, is going to blitz it.
 
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my old x2 3800 with a X800 use to get 80 - 100FPS, your system doesnt sound like its running correctly, try searching the forums for a link to a dos command that allows you to hardcode an exe (CSS) to run only on 1 core (affinity), you can do this from task manager once its loaded (right click on the exe and select affinity) but this doesnt always work as well. Try this before you upgrade.
 
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