Please check this sandybridge spec - upgrading from 939 4200x2 (lol)

Clark the White · 12 Jan 2011 at 20:22

Hi folks please can you give your opinions on this spec. This should be an enormous upgrade as I will be upgrading from:
4200 x2 939 amd
2gb ram
win xp 32 (lol)

I don't require a PSU (have corsair 650) or graphics card (GTX460) or hard drive

thanks in advance for your advice / comments!

stulid · 12 Jan 2011 at 20:29

Thats fine, just question the need for 8GB of ram? you playing games or going to be video editing etc?

And the ram isnt actually in stock, this corsair stuff is - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Or 1333mhz rated stuff - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-053-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

Subliminal Aura · 13 Jan 2011 at 00:26

Take the RAM - Silly dirt cheap prices at the moment.

You're going to enjoy a massive bump up from the performance of a 939 !

ps Get yourself an SSD (please ?!)

Clark the White · 13 Jan 2011 at 07:44

thanks It will be for purely for gaming, no video editing required.
thanks for the ram advice. I will get an ssd too.

1kiwi · 13 Jan 2011 at 10:59

Yep - SSD will make a huge difference!

Dark_Angel · 13 Jan 2011 at 11:06

Take 8GB.

I'm using the Geil Value 8GB set, it's very very good. Apparently it runs on very low voltages too (though I've not played with it).

In your basket, I see no copy of windows 7... you'll need a 64 bit OS with 4GB of RAM or more.

bakes0310 · 13 Jan 2011 at 11:09

Let us know how you get on when you get the kit. I always wanted to upgrade from a big gap in generations. But it never happens i always see the next best intel/amd and here i go again. But not this time im gonna ignore sandybridge and bulldozer......

Dark_Angel · 13 Jan 2011 at 11:12

I can personally vouch for Sandy Bridge. I went from a 775 quad, and the difference is completely huge. I was unlucky enough to have a motherboard which didn't let me clock my quad high though, so that probably added fuel to the upgrade.

shadow_boxer · 13 Jan 2011 at 11:31

Yeah good setup there. No real need to have 8GB RAM but with prices so cheap could just get it. Should be a nice bump in performance for you.

Clark the White · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:17

thanks very much for the replies!

I already have win 7 64bit ready to install (idn't bother installing it on this 4200 x2 machine though)

also what is the current benchmarking tools you all use? as before i destroy this system I will bench and compare it to the sandybridge - should be nice difference!

Dark_Angel · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:24

3d mark and Heaven are what I use.

As well as the usual Crysis / other games.

Subliminal Aura · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:27

Fritz for cpu / smp performance + search these forums for fritz results to compare against.

cinebench is also a must

Everest for memory benchmark

hdtune/etc for your drives....

Keep us posted btw it would be lovely to see how much of a boost you got.
Finger in the air figures from me ...

cpu - 4.5x
memory - 3x
ssd - 4x