Sandy 3700 to Conroe

[pabloB]

Hey there,

I don't pretend to know too much about Conroe, I haven't researched it too much but have read a couple of threads here. I'm just wondering if people that have been upgrading their AMD systems to Conroe are happy with the results. Have you seen a boost in performance mainly in games? I get a bonus next month and was thinking of getting a new build going.

Prices seem to be really good for Conroe but off course there is the added expense of new Mobo, mem etc etc.

I'd love to hear from anyone that has upgraded in a similar manner to that that i'm thinking of going. Apologies if this subject has been done to death, had a little search and couldn't find too much but i'll as always be happily be proved wrong.

Cheers

 

[pabloB]

Some interesting replies here! I should have mentioned that I game at 1900 x 1200. Having played a bit of Company of Heroes with all settings maxed out is does stutter a little every now and again. My GPU is a x1900xt, so I was wondering if I was CPU limited.

The overclocks on Conroe seem fantastic and surely a Conroe at 3.5ghx is going to slam my Sandy at 2.7ghz any day in games. I'm assuming that the current mobo's supporting the Conroe socket will be around for some time yet - as I don't really want to have to get another mobo 6 months down the line again.

Looks like I need to get my research hat on lol!!!

 

[pabloB]

Must say I'm intrigued that not much would appear to be gained from shelling out on a Conroe set up. I know I'm only looking at the numbers, i.e a Conroe running at say 3.2ghz. I would have thought this would have slammed my Sandy at 2.7ghz as to me the Conroe is running faster. The Sandy must be one hell of a good chip in terms of gaming ,if there's not going to be much difference in FPS. My decision is one based purely on how my games play as that's really all I use my PC for, aside from Office for Work. Looks like it would pay me to wait a bit. Although there does seem to be some satisfied customers who have made the change..... Jeeez I dunno what to do lol

Would people agree?

 

[pabloB]

ALl i know is my fps have jumped up on bf2 since going on this conroe system previoulsy had a 3800 A64, my advice would be if you have a A64 939 setup keep that and upgrade, but if building from scratch Core2 wins the day over AM2.

Absolutely, not interested in AM2 at all to be fair as wouldn't really gain anything going that route.

Hmmmmm, part of me wants to play with new components - I've never had an Intel set up before either. I've had this set up for a while now lol..