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How do you rate your Conroe upgrade?

Kaiju

Kaiju

Kaiju

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I swapped from a AMD64 3700+ @ 2.8GHz, 2GB, etc to a E4300 @ 3.2GHz (currently on Orthos, as 3.0GHz stable 10Hrs Orthos), 2GB, etc and it's faster in benches by a mile, but i'm just not seeing the performance a lot of people seem to suggest.

"It blows away my AM2," sorta thing, yeah okay, in benches certainly.

I'm sure my new system is faster, i'm just wondering how others feel about their C2D system?
 
Benchmarks, hell yes this is great.
General windows use, Did I upgrade :/ (feels slower as I got rid of my raid)
Games, no real difference.

3dsmax rendering. Oh now this is what I'm talking about, well worth the upgrade, rendering times have basicly halved going from a 2.4GHz Oppy170 to a e6600@3GHz.
 
From a64 3200 @ 2.2, 2gb of ram to c2d 3ghz and 2gb ram

Games: Certainly, MTW2 is awesome was the main reason for upgrade, anno 1701 runs like a dream as well though i think a 8800gts could make all the better :D

I just have to watch my mates P4 dual core to see how much better this preforms in games. Though ironically rainbow six: vegas runs better on his furnace :P

Windows: Not convinced whether it was worth the money, sometimes good, sometimes bad :confused:

Yes it was worth the upgrade as i got a nice price for my old kit, though hopefully vista will enlighten my dual cores to let me see improvements in windows
 
Previous Spec

P4 630 @ 3Ghz
2Gb DDR
X1900XT-X

Current Spec
E6300 @ 3.29Ghz
2 Gb DDR-II
X1900XT-X

Windows: Yes I have a seen a massive improvement, even when the CPU was at stock (1.86Ghz) loading times into windows have vastly improved. Video encoding takes half the time, unraring files is now a dream.

Games: Hell yes, BF2142 was badly bottlenecked by the CPU, the E6300 lets my X1900 perform in its full glory.

I cant recommend these new C2D enough, I was umming and arring for quite sometime if it was worth a +£300 upgrade, I can glady say now that it is.
 
GazD said:
I cant recommend these new C2D enough, I was umming and arring for quite sometime if it was worth a +£300 upgrade, I can glady say now that it is.
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Thanks to my RAM (Got £180 for a pair of OCZ EB's), my upgrade cost me next to nothing. :D
 
i brought the e6300 & asrock dual agp/pci-e board for £161 used my other componments that i brought when i had a p4 3ghz northwood & i must say the games i used to play with the 3ghz northwood run a hell of a lot smoother now!

Best purchase i have made yet, although i've never had an amd based system always been Intel but this is miles ahead of any of those i had before.
 
My Previous Spec

AMD x2 3800+ @ 2.7Ghz
2Gb Geil 400
7900GTO @ 720/830
Asus A8R32-MVP

Spec Now

E6300 @ 3.3Ghz
2Gb Geil 800
7900GTO @ 720/830
Asus P5B Deluxe

Benchmarks

Super Pi
3800+ @ 2.7Ghz - 34 Seconds
E6300 @ 3.3Ghz - 17 Seconds

3DMark 06
3800+ / 7900GTO @ 720/800 - 6430 Marks
E6300 / 7900GTO @ 720/800 - 6889 Marks

Results

Windows - Seems more responsive, but I guess thats mainly down to the format, however halfed my DVD encoding time from 1 hour to 30mins.

Gaming - Big step up for Battlefield. With the same clocks on the titan It would dip sometimes to 20-30fps with 40 players. Now I get 60-70. Amazing difference considering I play it most of the time.

This is my first Intel since my PIII733 and im very pleased. The upgrade cost me £150 in total as I sold my other rig for £250.
 
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My old system was:

Intel P4 3.4GHz N/wood (@ stock speed), 2GB OCZ PC3200 Plat. Asus AX800XT (ATI 800 XT PE).

New system, as in sig.

Real life, windows xp runs quicker, video encoding is over twice as fast, haven't really tried any games yet, but I would think they will run much better.

As regards benches, cpu/graphics related 2-3 times as fast generally.

Have to say I'm very pleased with C2D.

EDIT:

Forgot to say, Adobe Photoshop runs quite a bit better (quicker and smoother). :)
 
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My old machine was an Athlon64 4000 @ 3ghz, 2gb of Mushkin PC3200 and an Asrock SLI motherboard, never used to crash that much but occasionally things would lock up, I'd get the (very) odd BSOD and video/photo editting became tediously slow at times.

With a C2D, after some initial teething problems with my Xfi, now it's rock solid, never crashes, nothing locks up, Dealing with large RAW's and TIFF's in photoshop is a breeze and the odd video conversion I've done has taken less than half the time. Best £400 upgrade ever.
 
my windows seems slower, probably due to this new hard-drive, im convinced my old ones were faster, ill be formatting and instlal windows on those babys within 2 weeks anway. Loads loads loads faster at everything. Installing and unzipping things, wow, shows the sheer power of the c2d. Mates theiving all my files etc and dvds etc off my computer, makes a little noise and thats all, i can play 2142 while people are leeching stuff off my pc over the network and the c2d doesnt bat an eyelid.
 
On second thought, I can now Ctrl+Alt+Del out of 2142 to Windows and jump straight back in game. Before, on my my single core i'd get nothing but a black screen.

Hooray for dual core! :D
 
I like that too, aswell as being able to leave up azeurus and msn etc without having any performance hit really :D
 
Wow, this is the kind of stuff I need to read right now as I need to justify my new upgrade path to C2D. Thanks, very imformative thread.
 
Went from an X2 4400+ @ 2.5Ghz >> C2D E6300 @ 3.33Ghz

And the difference is day and night in pretty much everything.

Even though both were dual core the C2D just seems to do multitasking better.

The whole windows experience is smoother in general, games are considerably faster, and the system is far more solid, i'm yet to see a single BSOD since changing to the Intel platform and chipset. **Touch Wood**

One of the best upgrades i've made in a while.
 
In CPU Bound games like EQ2 I noticed a huge improvement. Turning the fancy Shading and shadows to a higher seting.
 
lol cd burner is quicker with c2d , I DON'T think so unless it can magically alter your burners speed !
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How do you know i dont have magical powers

Cairnsey said:
He means the converting/encoding before hand, surely :p
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Yes, but as it encodes/converts quicker, the whole burning process is shorter.
 
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