Your opinions

[Jaffa_Cake]

I have a friend buying a new pc very soon and I am wondering which combination will give a better gaming benchmark.

AMD 3800+ X2 (ocd to 2.5GHz) with a 7900GS

or

E4300 (ocd to 3GHz) with a 7600GT

This is on 1280x1024 resolution.

I think the E4300 will win by miles but im not being very persuasive.

Opinions please!

 

[semi-pro waster]

The 7900GS is the better card so I'd stick with it, the 7600GT might be a bit of a bottleneck for the E4300 at that sort of speed. The X2s aren't bad chips, just on a price/performance basis they are slightly outclassed by the Core2Duos.

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

The 7900GS is the better card so I'd stick with it, the 7600GT might be a bit of a bottleneck for the E4300 at that sort of speed. The X2s aren't bad chips, just on a price/performance basis they are slightly outclassed by the Core2Duos.

I had a feeling someone might say that. I would go for the C2d purly because it would make my pc about 2x faster doing anything except playing games

 

[semi-pro waster]

Well, you did ask about gaming. In ordinary use the Core2Duo is faster by a fair margin although not twice as fast. I'm assuming that everything else remains the same other than the graphics card, motherboard and CPU.

 

[man_from_uncle]

I'd go Core 2 Duo too. While a 7900gs is a cut above a 7600gt, an e4300 at 3ghz is head and shoulders faster than a X2 3800 at 2.5ghz.

I'd seriously look at the 8600gt instead of either though. Won't keep up with a 7900gs, but when overclocked they beat a 7600gt, plus you've got the IQ and DX10 benefits.

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

Well, you did ask about gaming. In ordinary use the Core2Duo is faster by a fair margin although not twice as fast. I'm assuming that everything else remains the same other than the graphics card, motherboard and CPU.

Im quoting these numbers from superpi times E4300 gets 19s whereas a 3800+ gets about 36/37 oc'd.