which am2 cpu , 6000 or 5000 black ed?

[~>Dg<~]

well upgrading my cpu to either but dont know which soon.
1 hand says get the 6000 for 90 delivered but other says get the 5000 black ed with unlocked multi and just up the multi to 15 to just over 3gig but it has less cache but it will be cheaper.
pls dont say get conroe im on am2 so its not worth the hassle for the money thanks.
which should i get to last till another 6 months or so. going to be getting a 8800gt or the new rad 670 in next month.

 

[chomik]

get the cheaper one ..

 

[Bleek]

It has less cache?

In which case I'd go for the 6000+

 

[psychas]

why dont get E6550 ? cheap to and good ?

 

[PeteLucky7]

why dont get E6550 ? cheap to and good ?

pls dont say get conroe im on am2 so its not worth the hassle for the money thanks.

I'd say 6000 for the cache though. But also, there's a 65nm version of the 5200+ with 1mb of cache per core (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). If you could find that it'd probably clock higher/run cooler than the 90nm ones.

See here:

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/default.aspx?sid=prdathlon64x2dt

 

[thefishdude]

if you into over clocking then go for the 5000 bacl toms hardware just done a big article on abudget overclocking using this cpu

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Athlon64-X2-5000-Black-Edition,review-29679.html

they had it running rock solid at stock volts 3.1ghz

and if you into being green it uses half the amount of power of ist bigger brother black editin when at stock

 

[Bleek]

To me the chip of choice is the 65nm 5200+ 2.7GHz (NOT the current 2.6GHz 90nm) http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=77

It incorporates the larger 1MB L2 cache, has a nice high multiplier of 13.5, runs cools, runs low volts and therefore is a prime candidate for overclocking.

Even a mild memory speed of 250MHz will reap a large ~3.4GHz.

 

[Bleek]

...oh and if anyone can find a G2 PLEASE let me know!!!

 

[dr. sarf]

I've got the 6000+ on my system and extrememly happy with it, currently clocked at 3.1Ghz until my new Arctic Freezer arrives from here.
I've just always been an AMD kinda guy.

 

[Bleek]

I've just always been an AMD kinda guy.

I've been an AMD supporter since day one.