Dual Core X2 upgrade.

[Glow]

AM2 I'm guessing isn't the same as 939 I have a 3000+ at 2.6GHz would I notice much of a difference from a X2 Manchester 2.0?

 

[cooter]

depends on what you do. most people seem to feel like the comptuer is much faster, as i did. Dual core is the way to go.

 

[Murali]

I went from a P4 2.4C to a Athlon 3000+ and noticed a difference, because the 2.4C had hyperthreading... It just felt smoother. I promptly upgraded to a 3800+ X2 and haven't regretted it at all.

Multitasking feels so much smoother.

 

[Bleedblue12345]

i went from a non ht p4 2ghz to a x2 4200+, it was no contest

 

[sitheris]

I went from a 3200 to a 4400 x2 and it's incredible

 

[Adidas4275]

its really good for encoding divx and decoding DVDs it cuts your time in half

 

[killingfield1975]

conroe chips are the way to go if you are going to fully upgrade a system (well for now at least)

 

[Adidas4275]

yeah but AM2 is good because of AMDs future chips... but yes conroe is the way to go if you want to buy a new mobo, ram and CPU, if you stay with 939 its just a CPU and AM2 is all three again.


I agree with you, but some people like AMD and not Intel, i know myself and i just built my PC and i am going to change out all my parts... buy a new CPU and chipset block, new mobo, cpu and ram for some perfomance in superpi

I know they encode and decode amazingly fast but still I dont have alot of money.. so i went from a opteron 144 to a 3800+ X2 939 toledo core and make it do 2.6.. with my 36gb raptor and 2gb of DDR500 ram I think my system is still good. Maybe not the best as it once was close to being, opteron 144 @3.0 with 2 GB ram... and a 7800gtx a year and a half ago.

but still i like my PC and dont have the money to completely change out, like many of us...