Is there any point

[cooljimy84]

My question is....

Is there any point in me getting a black edition AM2 ??
My 5200 clocks to 3 Ghz, so would i really see any difference in a 3.2 ??

I play games like Need for speed Pro/most wanted, F.E.A.R. ,Unreal 2007
and i will be playing Spore when it finally comes out....
I only see a few drops in FPS, normal in open areas or when there lots going on...

I've got a 8800 GTX as my graphics card

I'm in two minds....

Thanks

 

[Herojuana]

Is 0.2 Ghz worth £100 to you?

 

[cooljimy84]

was thinkin of getting the 5000 black edition, but just seen the 6400 which has 1mb of cache not 512 like my current chip.....

 

[Justintime]

No point at all tbh, even highly o'ced you won't see anything significant or anything at all.

 

[cooljimy84]

i thought as much....

Think i might just start giving her 1.7 volts...... LOL

see if i can break 3.1 stable..

 

[Justintime]

Sell it to some n00b and get a Q6600 setup

 

[Hesky82]

Even with the additional cache I really doubt you will see any improvement in gaming with an extra .2ghz

Are the fastest am2 chips pretty much on there clocking limits then? I guess if there anything like the old 939 cpus there was little or no additional overclocking headroom left over with the FX chips unless you were to use extreme cooling.

I should imagine an overclocked one of those new wolfdale intel dual core cpu's would boost your fps in games quite a bit, maybe go in that direction.

 

[Minstadave]

Most modern games are GPU limited, especially at high res, so it doesn't make much difference what CPU you use.

 

[Hesky82]

example of what a significantly faster cpu can do to crysis playability....

36.730 fps amd opteron 180 @ 2900mhz | nvidia 8800gt 512mb @ 775/1000/1691 | Windows XP 32bit

Just upgraded the CPU to a wolfdale 8500 @ 3.8ghz and now get 44.9 fps, same gpu and gpu settings

Big jumps from quite a slow cpu can make a pretty noticeable difference! even in gpu limited games.

Also another instance was when my friend ran his new hd3870xt on his old amd 3700+ at 2.5ghz and was initially pretty disappointing. Later we switched his system to a 3.2GHz c2d setup. The system was transformed significantly, bioshock and a few other games ran much smoother.

 

[cooljimy84]

Yer i was going to go Intel, but at the time overclockers had a deal on every thing i needed to get my rig watercooled and running via amd route.

 

[Hesky82]

cool, so your going to push the 5200+ even more then??