Upgrade from AMD3700 to 4600?

[benskia]

Hi.

Just wondering if its worth the upgrade, taking into account the price cuts just recently.

I dont particularly do a lot of multitasking. I've got my 3700 running at 2.86ghz on stock volts.

Do you reckon I could get a 4600 to run at the same speed & then get the added benefit of multitasking whenever I needed to?

Also, any news on any games coming out that will actually use dual core technology?

Thanks.

 

[OzyOly]

Hi.

Just wondering if its worth the upgrade, taking into account the price cuts just recently.

I dont particularly do a lot of multitasking. I've got my 3700 running at 2.86ghz on stock volts.

Do you reckon I could get a 4600 to run at the same speed & then get the added benefit of multitasking whenever I needed to?

Also, any news on any games coming out that will actually use dual core technology?

Thanks.

I'm not really a PC gamer but I know games such as Oblivion supports Dual core and that future games as in the next month and beyond will support dual core if not on release but by a patch.

As for general purpose use; you will notice the difference if you use a lot of background tasks such as virus scan, file sharing programmes( ) etc, but other then that you may not notice too much.

 

[squiffy]

I would not upgrade from a 3700 SC to a 4600 SC-you're only getting a few hundred mhz increase, but I would upgrade to a DC chip.

3700 is nippy, no point upgrading. Very little difference between mates 3700SC X1800XT and my gaming rig (sig) however Oblivion is slightly faster on my system. If you're going to clock 4600 to 2.8ghz no point upgrading at all, unless you clock it >3ghz.

Dual cores are useful if/when you do heavy windows processes, ie encoding music/videos, as the system will still have 50% of each core free, wheras single core will be fully loaded and the system will be really slow (unless you set priority lower) Regardless it'll finish the process quicker. ie 12 minutes versus 6 minutes for a video shrink

 

[Rizz]

I went from a 3700 which only did [email protected] volts to a 4200+ which does [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] is there a difference ? not much in games but there is a difference in multitasking using ts while gaming browsing running folding@home. Its better than my sandiego volts wise, but as your sandy does 2.84 default volts its hard to say, but i wouldnt get a 4600 I doubt it will clock higher than a 4200.