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This week only X2 4200s

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Soldato
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Hi all

Currently finances are pretty tight so can't consider the upgrade I would really love to go for. Just seen the 4200s are down to just over £50. Is it worth the upgrade from the A64 4000+ in my sig?

I play Eve Online a lot with multiple accounts and have heard you can run separate instances on separate cores. Is this correct?

TIA

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^ seconded

I bought one to replace my (t)rusty old 3500+ the 4200 is at 2.8 rock solid and turning in some staggering bench figures for such a bargain bucket price
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Save a tenna and go for the 3800+ it easily clocks to 2.6 at least most at 2.8ghz
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True, but sometimes the higher multi can help with ram dividers and fsb limitations on motherboards.

At these prices though, they're both a great choice for 939 users. :cool:
 
Thanks a lot for feedback guys. Have ordered the 4200 and hope it will make that little bit of difference to running multiple instances of the game.

Time to start saving the pennies for a more serious upgrade towards the early part of next year. :D

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They're a steal at that price - You should be very happy with it - especially if you're running eve windowed and have stuff open on a 2nd monitor! Get some multi-tasking goodness in :D
 
wez130 said:
i've just oredered one of these to replace my A64 3000 venice, will i see a huge difference? :D
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As soon as you multi-task, or use something that uses 100% of a core, then want to use it at the same time.

Before you rip out the 3000, open up DVD shrink and re-shrink a 8GB movie down to 4.4gb, highest priority. Open up task manager, it should say 100% and you system should be unusable. Even things like light applications will be slow to load up and system will be unreponsibe. Whilst it's still encoding, start playing a game. It'll be around 1fps.

when the 4200x2 arrives do the same, the game should be playable, this time with playable framerate.
 
squiffy said:
As soon as you multi-task, or use something that uses 100% of a core, then want to use it at the same time.

Before you rip out the 3000, open up DVD shrink and re-shrink a 8GB movie down to 4.4gb, highest priority. Open up task manager, it should say 100% and you system should be unusable. Even things like light applications will be slow to load up and system will be unreponsibe. Whilst it's still encoding, start playing a game. It'll be around 1fps.

when the 4200x2 arrives do the same, the game should be playable, this time with playable framerate.
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I vote this to be the dictionary definition and example of "Dual Core" :D
 
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