thinking of getting a x2 cpu

[bakes0310]

But is it worth it i dont multitask the hardest work my pc goes through is games, so basically all i want it for is to improve my games framerates.

 

[bakes0310]

Ive just seen in this weeks offers a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+
and it says thats the last of the x2s that britain will be getting so thats really made me think.

Should i get it at that once in a lifetime great offer as i will bound to notice a little performance in a few of my games, i really do want my system to last for as long as possible until ive got to make the move to vista and dx10 system.

Should my x1900xtx stretch its legs (not be bottlenecked) with the x1900xtx thus seeing a improvemnt in games.

 

[bakes0310]

i really do want to keep my 939 system as long as possible its my fave pc i ever had and would hate to get rid of it just yet

Theres nothing left for me to get for my pc to improve my gaming performance except maybe a soundcard......DOH! now ive got a choice of either buying:

x2 3800
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition

 

[bakes0310]

How high is that 3700+ clocked anyway?

2.5ghz

 

[bakes0310]

Well ive just ordered the x2 4800 so i hope i will notice a difference

 

[bakes0310]

Lol, .

they want me to buy it

 

[bakes0310]

hopefully the cpu will come tuesday as its bank holiday.

I dont need a new monitor as i bought the vx922 19" about 3 months ago, and i dont need new graphics card as i have the connect3d x1900xtx, but a hard drive i dont need either still got about 17gb left

Ive just ran 3dmark05 and i got 11127 which is nice so ill run it again when my x2 x4800 is in my rig

 

[bakes0310]

i would love to overclock my 4800 to fx62 speeds but i dont know how, i watched a mate overclock my [email protected].

EDIT: just read an improved beginners guide and now i feel confident to overclock the x2 4800

 

[bakes0310]

I took the plunge for a 4600 X2 cpu I've never looked back. Some games developers are now taking advantage of dual core games such as Quake 4 and Half Life 2: Episode 1 support dual cores.

I found that the improvements to frame rates are small but it does help keeping them more consistent. Also if you want to avoid that tedious yet essential task of virus scanning you can do this whilst playing a game so you don't have to wait ages.

Might be worth a memory upgrade, if you start doing twice as many tasks you'll need twice as much memory.

I like it and i think it works well.

cheers for the input, i cant wait till it arrives which i expect will be tuesday.
If a 3700 sandeigo runs at 2.4 whats a 4800 running at 2.9

I dont think a memory upgrade is needed as 2gb is enough for a good long time.

I agree with games starting to use dualcore and patches coming out for dual core support, im just crossing my fingers for an oblivion patch

 

[bakes0310]

well it arrived today ive only just ran 3dmark05 and it gave an extra 1200 points so im getting about 11400 which is nice ill try out some games later