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Q6600 or the AMD Phenom 9500?
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What's your problem? If you choose other tests in the link I provided the Q6600 is still faster than Phenom, and in some cases by miles. I can't possibly link to every single test in that link...
What's your problem? If you choose other tests in the link I provided the Q6600 is still faster than Phenom, and in some cases by miles. I can't possibly link to every single test in that link...
Not if someone were to just use WinRAR all day
Phenoms are faster at that.Seriously though, go for the Intel route if you don't already have an AM2 motherboard.
I have a Phenom 9600 & 4GB Ram.. Going to throw them on a 790fx mobo and either a 3870x2 or 2 3870s in crossfire. (The only reason I went down that route was that I got the Phenom 9600 for around £100)
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SuperPi is heavily dependant on Cache size, 1-0 to Intel cause it can fit it all in cache instead of AMD's having to send it to RAM and back. Even P4's beat the Athlon 64's. Like I said before the Q6600 is the better deal at the moment, but lets keep in mind these are inanimate objects, not our children. Aslong as you can get a good deal on a Q6600 + mobo + cooler you'll have one hell of a CPU 
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at the moment there is absolutely no point in buying amd on a gaming system, at all.
AMD is strongly rumored to be releasing new CPUs at Cebit, which I think starts tomorrow. Wait a week and see what happens. It may be that nothing amazing is launched but what ever does get launched is likely to effect prices one way or another. If AMD Quad cores fall to around £100 then they may find a nice middle ground in the market.
That could be interesting! I don't need bleeding edge speed, but nice and fast for a budget would certainly tick the box for me.
No chance. Not a hope in hell of AMD releasing anything remotely interesting for at least 6 months. Even then AMD is pretty much finished speaking long term.
Anyways, curious what this news is, prolly just a press release indicating more delays
Edit - could be a paper launch of the Tricore chips, but even they are pants, well I mean they'll be a few £10 notes cheaper...but to be honest when you're not even talking a days work, might as well just plonk down the price of entry and get something decent. Since the price of entry is already very good at the moment for a nice juicy setup.
Or a E8400, thats what Im going to be ordering later this week. Should keep the gamming world going for a good few years, cos even my opty 185 @ 2.8 is being bottlenecked from my 3870 card, so the E8400 will be bottlenecked huge, cos the e8400 is over twice as fast then my opty 185 if I can gat it to 3.6.
I would go for a Quad if you want that level of longetivity.
Is the 3870 seriously being bottlenecked by the opty 185?
That's interesting, and good news for me and my Opty 180.
Yes,, cos while playing crysis, the max usage from the cpu is 75 - 80%
I cant understand why ppl want to go quad when cra**y opty 185s are being bottlenecked by even the 8800gtx I bet.. Basically quad cpus wont overtake dual undill the graphic cards makes use of both cores fully, and I cant see that happening for a good few yrs with a e8400 at 3.6ghz,. But like ppl say if you do a lot of encoding quad is best, but for gaming, the e8400 wont use both cores fully for a good few yrs, so why bother going quad???
No chance. Not a hope in hell of AMD releasing anything remotely interesting for at least 6 months. Even then AMD is pretty much finished speaking long term.
Anyways, curious what this news is, prolly just a press release indicating more delays
Edit - could be a paper launch of the Tricore chips, but even they are pants, well I mean they'll be a few £10 notes cheaper...but to be honest when you're not even talking a days work, might as well just plonk down the price of entry and get something decent. Since the price of entry is already very good at the moment for a nice juicy setup.
heh, another AMD doomer, and what do you know AMD will release when, do you work for them/work for a company close to them? if not then silence, and with tricore again stop dooming something before its ever released, nobody has any idea what they'll be like so your 'but even they are pants' statement is absurd
1 more point I'll like to add.... When I get my new system, Im not expecting it to be any faster then my current system, evern in windows, cos you have the bottleneck from the hdd. Basically the only thing im expecting the new system will be faster at, is when I do encoding and I dont do that very often anyway.
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That's good to know, cheers.
I've just purchased a couple of 8800GT's to replace my X1950PRO, but was thinking they'd be bottlenecked to the extreme by my Opty 180@2800. Obviously they'll still be bottlenecked, but possibly not to the extent I was first expecting.
It will be the other way around m8, graphics card will be bottlenecking cpu. If my motherboard wernt doing my head in so much, I would keep my sys for at least another year.
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