Is it worth selling A64X2 to go Core 2 DUO E6600?

[yannis76]

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The performance increase is staggering [/QUOTE]

Could you please be more specific? Where do you see this difference? I am only asking because I am interested in this upgrade...

 

[slap ed]

I think if we are honest most of us do it for the same reason

Although, I am trying to resist the Conroe upgrade madness over my current X24400 at the mo...Tough though, & I can feel myself weakening

thank god i'm not the only one

 

[Stelly]

you will really not look back after getting Conroe

Stelly

 

[dark4orz]

Do people realise that surfing the internet,posting in forums etc will not be any faster?

Try rendering a mini DV sequence in Adobe premier and then report back!

re-encoding a dvd on tmpgenc takes me around 3hrs on my amd x2, how will that compare with conroe ????

 

[BoomAM]

re-encoding a dvd on tmpgenc takes me around 3hrs on my amd x2, how will that compare with conroe ????

I would have thought about the same give or take 10mins or so.
Go and look for Conroe reviews, that'll probably have some encoder benchmarks in it, with a comparison to AMD X2's.

 

[Monstermunch]

Hey everyone hope your all doin good,

As the title says really...


Is it worth selling my setup

AMD A64 4400+ X2
2X1GB CRUCIAL BALLISTIX TRACER DDR500
DFI LANPARTY ULTRA-D
7900GTX


For a Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 setup? (Obviously keeping the 7900GTX!)

I work MOSTLY in Music (Cubase / Reason) and in Windows, also play games occasionally (BF2 etc)

Noticeable difference?

Put simply...... NO!

 

[-Ad-]

wait for qaud core

im waiting for 40 cores which should be out in another year or so with x32 sli.

Not that any programs will take advantage of any of it.

 

[dbmzk1]

I am currently running a single core Athlon 64 at 2.44ghz. I can play most current games at max settings with no real problems. I can rip a DVD using DVD Shrink in 15-45 mins. I can play a game, listen to music, have fraps recording the game, browse the web, talk on msn/xfire/ventrilo/skype and have utorrent running... all at the same time... and I don't have any problems with slowdown and I am happy with the speed it does it at.

Sure I would love to do everything faster, who wouldn't. But I just cant justify spending any money on it at the moment because the only reason for making it faster would be simply just for the hell of it.

So in my opinion unless you can get the upgrade dirt cheap, which you cant now AMD have cut their prices, then no its not worth it at the moment.

 

[wellibob]

Intel core 2 duo chips are faster than AMD`s chips. Its an upgrade however you want to put it. What would i do if i couldnt upgrade ? ... i`d wait. I sold my 939 socket gear at a loss , but i sold it b4 it was worthless . Once youve built your new rig, few days later i`ll be looking to upgrade somethink else... its how i am, and others too. Justification varies on your outlook.

 

[wam7]

For you SeanyK, I suspect the answer would be that you wouldn't see that much difference. For Music apps like CubaseSX and Reason et al, the amount of memory is more crucial to the fluency off the app. CPU's have long been powerful enough to run these well.

I also do a lot of video encoding/transcoding where my own tests show that I will get at least 40% improvement in the apps I use in going to Conroe.

 

[sablabra]

Then when quad core comes out that will cost a fortune then someone will say wait for 8 core then 12 core then 100000000000 cores.

There is always something better around the corner.Waiting is pointless IMO

You could think of it that way, but his system is VERY capable at this date. When quad core comes it will probably be slightly outdated. So waiting isn't pointless, most of us can't just buy every new thing because "waiting is pointless"

 

[jaws104]

For you SeanyK, I suspect the answer would be that you wouldn't see that much difference. For Music apps like CubaseSX and Reason et al, the amount of memory is more crucial to the fluency off the app. CPU's have long been powerful enough to run these well.

I also do a lot of video encoding/transcoding where my own tests show that I will get at least 40% improvement in the apps I use in going to Conroe.

I use reaktor a lot and many of its heavier ensembles are seriously CPU limited, I would expect to see a big improvement there (from X2 3800)

 

[wam7]

I use reaktor a lot and many of its heavier ensembles are seriously CPU limited, I would expect to see a big improvement there (from X2 3800)

I use Kontakt from within Cubase on my old P4 @3.6 and never run into CPU problems even when loading a fair few samples.

 

[Reiver]

When quad core comes will the current crop of motherboards (975x) be compatible?

 

[cavemanoc]

Ask Maddness - he's running a Kentfield

 

[jaws104]

I use Kontakt from within Cubase on my old P4 @3.6 and never run into CPU problems even when loading a fair few samples.

This is because samples are loaded into memory or stream direct from harddrive, whereas synthesisers -reaktor, absynth or whatever rely mostly on CPU

Reason is kind of a hybrid as its a jack of all trades app, and cubase will tax various components in your machine depending on what VST's you load

 

[juno_first]

I suppose I'm a prime candidate with a 4400, to upgrade to the Coroe, but the only game that struggles is TR7 & thats because its badly coded.
Canapus uses dualcore & only takes 9 minutes to convert a film so the Intel will take 5 minutes eh?
I think graphics card upgrades are more important for games as I've played games like Quake4 in a window & the damn thing only uses 20% CPU time ffs, so if I go Conroe I'll get more fps when benchmarking but what real world difference will there be?
Maybe Crysis will be the crunch point on whether upgrade CPU or graphics or both
AMD surely won't lye down but Intel is looking very good at the moment (about time)...