$100 for new amd cpu

[Iliketobenaked]

I have a 4200x2 right Im willing to spend up $120 next week,what do you recommend?

 

[Iliketobenaked]

I will never get a intel cpu not in this life or the next.

 

[JFry]

*the record scratches and the music cuts out*
Care to share why?

 

[Asus]

Do you play games on this PC or do CPU intensive stuff? What GPU do you have? Not much worth upgrading to in the AMD CPU line. Not from an AMD X2 4200 and not with $120. If you know how, OCing would be a better value and then have that $120 as insurance in case the CPU fries.

Do you already have DDR2 memory? (evil thoughts of recommending Intel CPUs)

 

[Sedako]

I will never get a intel cpu not in this life or the next.

Then you'll be missing out on the best CPUs available. AMD chips are just not up to par anymore, and you'll be greatly limiting yourself.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

Do you play games on this PC or do CPU intensive stuff? What GPU do you have? Not much worth upgrading to in the AMD CPU line. Not from an AMD X2 4200 and not with $120. If you know how, OCing would be a better value and then have that $120 as insurance in case the CPU fries.

Do you already have DDR2 memory? (evil thoughts of recommending Intel CPUs)

a 8800GT from BFG

 

[Iliketobenaked]

so what about the 500 or 5400 not worth upgrading with?

 

[giant384]

6000 is worth going to

 

[Iliketobenaked]

so basically between 4200 and 6000 theres nothing else thats worth getting for me?

 

[giant384]

his point is that it wont be a really noticeable difference unless you move up to the next generation cpus. the phenom cpus would be worth spending your money for and would be a nice upgrade.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

even if the clock per core is lower? like mine is 2.2 and the phenom 8000 something has 2.1

 

[Krynn72]

Yes, even then.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

how can I figure out if my mainboard supports tri cores?

 

[giant384]

how can I figure out if my mainboard supports tri cores?

if your motherboard supports socket AM2

 

[Iliketobenaked]

yeah it's a AMD AM2 socket board I guess Im either getting 8400tri or 6400dual core

 

[Iliketobenaked]

Why do make it sound faster then?


it should be 8400>6400 no?

 

[giant384]

umm there are alot of games that support multiple cores...where have you been? the applications on that bench weren't even able to take advantage of more then one core. maybe a few were but im not sure which.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128014 ok I have this mobo when I check this website http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2287
only a few phenoms work which one should I get?

 

[Iliketobenaked]

I really want to get this CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16819103250
but its not listed on that cpu supported list do you think I should call Gigabyte and ask them about it?

 

[giant384]

the 9750 just looks to be an overclocked version of the 9700 and 9600. damn that thing uses alot of power.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

I went ahead and ordered the amd6000

looking at reviews I guess its easy to overclock to 3.2Ghz I'm gonna be more happy then with my 4200 for sure now.

 

[No Limit]

I don't know why you needed to upgrade, your original CPU was fine.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

I dunno man newegg reviews says that people even upgraded from the 4600 tp the 6000 and they noticed a difference too.Not only that the cache size is now 1mb instead of 512kb....I honestly I have no idea what that means but it sounds good ^___^

 

[Nemesis6]

Check out this page, it's excellent for comparing CPUs - http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/processors/3d-studio-max-9,369.html

Remember to look at the different examples, it seems that you do get quite a boost from +4600 to +6000.

 

[Druckles]

I have a 4400 on my computer, and it runs fine. I can run Crysis on very high (low object detail) and it's playable for the most part.

I intend to upgrade to a Phenom at some point in the future, but as Source is so nicely optimised, there is little need as of yet.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

well Im sure Crysis will run much better though and UT3.

 

[Iliketobenaked]

ok Im about to test a few games...

 

[Iliketobenaked]

I love this thing flawless gameplay with Crysis and UT3 CoD4 runs like a charm with everything maxed out.