Sandy 3700 to Conroe

[dark4orz]

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?

Well i tend to use my conroe mainly for video editing rather then playing games, not to say that i don't indulge now and again.

 

[Jabbs]

ALl i know is my fps have jumped up on bf2 since going on this conroe system previoulsy had a 3800 A64, i hover around 100fps and drop too lowest 70's was lucky to get over 70max before, 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.

Funny how before core 2 came out everyone was saying you goto get a fx62 etc, now core 2 pastes it everyone saying there really isn't that much difference between a sd3700 and a overclocked core 2.lol, i aint no fanboy as i had amd as long as i can remember but the simple fact core 2 thrashes it.

 

[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..

 

[Jabbs]

Maybe if you want a dual core see if you can pick up one cheap 2nd hand of members market or somet, but if you only a gamer there is no real point atm going this way, to my knowledge the only game that is written from the ground up to support dual core is Supreme Commander and of course Alan Wake uses quad/dual cores.

Maybe your best idea would to be wait and start from scratch with a whole rig.

 

[Kmodo]

Sorry, that remark was a bit strong, no offence to anyone, this was me expressing me own opinion, I don't see the justification of buying a better cpu, just to increase my frame rate in 1 or 2 games. In encoding and clocking yes, but the other no. I was just trying to make clear concise points, but people do worship their conroes

Fair enough buddy no worries, trust i still feel like a lil traitor ditching my beloveded AMD so I personally dont worship conroe. Seeing as AMD own ATI my next GPU will again be ATI the R600 me thinks. I did feel like AMD deserted 939 though, why would any1 changed thier whole rig to AM2 to see no performance gain whatsoever? If they released a 3.2-4ghz dual core 939 chip in a decent price bracket I would have went for that no questions asked but an overpriced £600 [email protected] was not really a choice

 

[Jabbs]

People hve gone to conroe for 1 reason they offer the best bang for buck as said above, who would spend £600 on a fx 62 when you could buy a core2/mobo/2gig ram for the same price its just common sense not worshiping.

 

[Edinho]

3700 SD to Conroe. Yes its good but i wouldnt be able to justify buying a new MB, RAM, and maybe gfx if your on AGP. IMO the money needed to upgrade isnt worth the performance gain. But then if you think money is no object go for it.

 

[dark4orz]

Fair enough buddy no worries, trust i still feel like a lil traitor ditching my beloveded AMD so I personally dont worship conroe. Seeing as AMD own ATI my next GPU will again be ATI the R600 me thinks. I did feel like AMD deserted 939 though, why would any1 changed thier whole rig to AM2 to see no performance gain whatsoever? If they released a 3.2-4ghz dual core 939 chip in a decent price bracket I would have went for that no questions asked but an overpriced £600 [email protected] was not really a choice

Agreed there was not much point of going the AM2 route, the performance gain is only 1-3%, mmmmm there is a sense of betrayalment of amd, I've just sold my X2 4800+ with a DFI Venus Board + 2GB G.Skill HZ Memory. Should I have Kept it ?

From what I've heard they have or they are bringing out a AM2 5200 with 2MB L2 Cache, but I don't know how much they would be or how they compare with Conroe chips.

 

[Jabbs]

You can be sure of one thing its going to cost the earth

 

[pegasus1]

Yup,

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz (Socket AM2) is £82 I mean for 38 quid more you get massive cpu power with core 2 duo.
Its a no brainer.

And a new mobo.

 

[easyrider]

And a new mobo.

I was making the assuption based on buying a new system

why would you get a single core solution when dual cores are only 38 quid more and offer faster perfromance than a FX 62!