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Performance Increase from AMD to Intel??

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I currently have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.40GHz (Socket 939) CPU, and shall probably be getting a Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB). How much of a boost in performance shall i get from the new intel cpu if i dont overclock it, as they are both the same speed, 2.4GHz?
 
Yeah but no games and not a lot of programs will use the advantage of the 4 cpu's over the 2 will it??
 
Well, in terms of performance my first post still stands. It WILL process things more quickly. I think your question should have been will I FEEL a difference.

In terms of games and stuff, more and more are using multiple cores and that trend will only continue. If youre only browsing the web then I wouldnt bother.
 
So instead of me upgrading my mobo (to an intel one) and Ram to DDR2, i might aswell just same money and buy only the GFX card, Nvidia 8800GTX on its own!?
 
I'm not a gamer, so someone will be able to answer that better, but I think moving to a 8800GTX will make your CPU a bottleneck.

If youre into games I would go for a higher clock dual core Core 2 Duo CPU rather than the Quad at lower clock speeds.
 
So instead of me upgrading my mobo (to an intel one) and Ram to DDR2, i might aswell just same money and buy only the GFX card, Nvidia 8800GTX on its own!?
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It depends what graphics card you have now obviously but you'll see more from a 8800 GTX than a Q6600.

In current games stock X2 4800+ to stock Q6600 you prolly won't even notice.
 
The jump going to a Q6600 will be noticeable, even without applications using all cores.

What gfx card do you have at the moment?
 
That is still a good card, so I would keep it for now and upgrade to a Core 2 Duo setup :cool:
 
At 3GHz and with an 8800GTX, there isn't much difference between Intel and AMD.

Overclock that sucker, buy a 8800GTX and you'll be fine until the next big thing comes out.
 
How easy are the AMD X2's to overclock then, i have a ASUS A8N-SLI mobo, and am using the retail heatsink and fan with the CPU?
 
lettuce said:
I currently have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ 2.40GHz (Socket 939) CPU, and shall probably be getting a Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB). How much of a boost in performance shall i get from the new intel cpu if i dont overclock it, as they are both the same speed, 2.4GHz?
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I did exactly that yesterday, from a 4600+ S939 to the Q6600 with a Tuniq tower sat on top of it , Geil RAM and a EVGA 680i motherboard..... I am staggered at how much difference there is, the only game I play is America's army and I can run it all high, no lag, no delay.... just awesome. In XP I double click on a program icon and it is up running.....

Overclocked it via the BIOS to 3Ghz, temps are about 42 degrees in the living room (which is always warm) at idle and it kicks up to about 60 after playing for a couple of hours.

If you got the cash then buy it!!!! :cool:
 
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I would say clock your 4800 you should be able to get a min of 2.8 with stock cooler.

Over clocking is very easy with that board.

If you want higher speeds get a better cooler.

Then get the 8800GTX.

Then wait till early next year see what all the new chips (AMD & Intel) bring.

Mail in trust if you require any more help clocking your 939
 
I would probably get a Tuniq tower sat to cool the cpu, but im not 10% sure what my case is now, ive had it 2 years and i know that the Tuniq tower sat does fit into all case, anyone know how wide the case has to be to accompany the Tuniq tower sat cooler?
 
I think if you have the money you should go for it, I currently have an opteron 170 @ 2.8Ghz with 2Gb although I have a Q6600 G0 on order (should be here tuesday cos they didnt have one of my items in stock, even though it said it was on the site :/).

While not all games use quad core, most do support dual core. The main difference you will notice their is games that do support dual core with get 100% use of those 2 cores, the rest will be left for windows in the background which should equate for a nice 10-20% increase alone.

And ofcourse when games do start to support more than 2 cores you will again see a nice performance increase again. As for graphics card an 8800gtx with your cpu will be bottlenecked. My 2900xt is bottlenecked by my opteron at 2.8Ghz and the 2900xt is not even close to the 8800gtx in quiet a few games (besides unreal 3 ones :P)
 
Went from an opty 165 @ 2.4 to a E6750 @ 3.2 and the difference was huge. Boots quicker, every thing loads noticeably faster and to give you an idea of CPU benchmark differences (super pi 1m) it went from about 29 seconds to 19 seconds. First time I have ever built an intel system and I'm really pleased with it.

Do you really need the quad core though? Dual core should do most people fine and will save you a few quid to put towards some other components.

Dave
 
thehmsjellyfish said:
Went from a AMD X2 4800 @ 3.1ghz to Q6600 at 3ghz and i wouldnt say the performance was all that great. But thats personal preference.
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Depends what you're doing, if gaming maybe the performance increase isn't that good but run it through a proper CPU benchmark and the result should be a lot better. The Core 2 Duo architecture is about 25% more effective per clock cycle than the AMD architecture.
 
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