64but3500->4200X2 worth it?

[Black_Wolf]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103747

What do you guys think?

 

[Barney Fife]

No, Over priced, then again that's my opinion.

 

[The Brick]

Depends on what you plan to do with it. If you like multitasking (doing alot of stuff at the same time) then yes you will be happy with it. If it's purely for gaming, then I can't recommend it. Most games don't support or don't effeciently use dual core. The performance on single core operations is pretty much the same as your current amd 3500+.


Edit: btw, the cpu you linked is for the new amd AM2 platform. That cpu won't work in your socket 939 mainboard.

 

[Asus]

Both CPUs run at 2.2GHz. It's just the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ has 2 cores so it can work on multiple things.
What Brick said.

 

[Black_Wolf]

oh,I dodnt see it was AM2

 

[Asus]

oh,I dodnt see it was AM2

939 version

 

[-Psy-]

Well I got one about a week ago. I've yet to test it but as I've read from various sources when it's ran on a single core it's basically a 3500+.

 

[CptStern]

but wouldnt it future proof him a bit for when vista comes out? I'm also thinking of getting a 4200 x2 to replace my 3700

 

[The Brick]

Not really a good idea Stern, your performance would drop overall a bit. If you really need it you better spend the money once Vista is out, you'll get better performance for that $180.

 

[CptStern]

ya but wont 939 be dead by then? I just want to keep my current rig till DX10 cards come out so I can start from scratch

 

[Asus]

Is your 3700+ socket 754 (2.4GHz, 1mb L2 cache, single channel memory) or socket 939 (2.2GHz, 1mb L2 cache, dual channel memory)?
Either way it will run about the same as the X2 4200+ in games that are not multi-threaded. It's up to you. Selling your current CPU would help justify the price of course.

Now if you have Socket 754 and it is within your budget for new memory, then you might as well jump in bed with Conroe.

I think AMD said they will stop shipping Socket 939 CPUs near the end of the year. I'd expect stock to drop off about then.

 

[CptStern]

it's socket 939 with the 1mb cache ..i wont be switching to conroe or am2 till probably sometime next year as I dont want to purchase new ram/mobo till I upgrade everything ..my pc is good enough for now ..I just thought a x2 might be a good way of future proofing for the next year or so

I'll probably keep the 3700 and build another pc out of spare parts ..my not quite 3 yr old son will need a pc soon

 

[Asus]

Sounds good. A spare machine is always nice.

I was doing some benchmarking yesterday on my X2 4600+ and was noticing that the 2nd core was getting used more than I expected. I didn't have any extra programs running since I was benchmarking but when I played CSS or 3dmark05 (both do not take advantage of dual core) the 1st CPU would be full and the 2nd CPU would be around 20-30%. Maybe it had something to do with video drivers supporting dual core? link

Of course in 3dmark06 and Quake 4 both cores were sitting at ~60% since the game takes advantage of dual core. And from benchmarks online, a big performance boost over single core.
So it at least takes care of any overhead if you are not running other things.

 

[-Psy-]

Interesting but not exactly anything major