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These are always fun just to see how we've updated over the years, if it was worth it and general thoughts?
I went from a Duron 1.2Ghz
To a Barton Athlon XP 2500 (decent update but bang per buck the Duron was great really)
Then to a XP 3200, IMO probably was not worth the update and cost though it was faster no question.
Next up socket change (939) and Athlon 64 3000 Winchester..well performance was improved a tad..but not tons so I would say I should have held off a bit longer, but the X2 64's were quite expensive
Next move was a 3500 Athlon 64 (only because I built another pc and use the older CPU) otherwise not a worthwhile update.
Most dramatic move was from that to the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ held off a bit until prices were better I think I paid somewhere near to £200 odd for it though can't remember exactly
That was a fairly big step up at the time and you really felt as if mult tasking was there not the hour glass waiting we had before. Very worthwhile improvement in performance for me.
I kept that running for years (few updates graphics and more ram) served me well for over 5 years until I decided that I needed a bit more beef, but probably the best update I made and the most worthwhile in performance relative to cost.
I ignored the AM2/AM2+/AM3 and waiting for bulldozer (good update time for me DDR 3 v DDR1, lost more performance on offer for good prices) FX didn't show up so I went with a Phenom II 840 ticked me over for about a year or so then FX6100.
Moving from a 64 4200 x2 to the PhII was a big update performance wise all around, HDD's much bigger, even budget GPU's were a lot better than my old 7600GS) loads more ram 16Gb v 2Gb) massive update really and probably cost less than the orginal build.
Then FX6100 with the cashback and fairly big price cuts..IMHO worth if for Athlon II x4 or lower users.
As time has gone on I've increased performance a lot, and spent a lot less on processors than I used to. I would expect a longer time beteen updates in the future for me. Being 100% honest I changed processors too much early on, in some cases the improvement in performance was not really worth the hassle or cost..bar the move to a dual core from a single one.
Share your AMD update history (or indeed any other CPU's you bought) and your thoughs
I went from a Duron 1.2Ghz
To a Barton Athlon XP 2500 (decent update but bang per buck the Duron was great really)
Then to a XP 3200, IMO probably was not worth the update and cost though it was faster no question.
Next up socket change (939) and Athlon 64 3000 Winchester..well performance was improved a tad..but not tons so I would say I should have held off a bit longer, but the X2 64's were quite expensive
Next move was a 3500 Athlon 64 (only because I built another pc and use the older CPU) otherwise not a worthwhile update.
Most dramatic move was from that to the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ held off a bit until prices were better I think I paid somewhere near to £200 odd for it though can't remember exactly
That was a fairly big step up at the time and you really felt as if mult tasking was there not the hour glass waiting we had before. Very worthwhile improvement in performance for me.
I kept that running for years (few updates graphics and more ram) served me well for over 5 years until I decided that I needed a bit more beef, but probably the best update I made and the most worthwhile in performance relative to cost.
I ignored the AM2/AM2+/AM3 and waiting for bulldozer (good update time for me DDR 3 v DDR1, lost more performance on offer for good prices) FX didn't show up so I went with a Phenom II 840 ticked me over for about a year or so then FX6100.
Moving from a 64 4200 x2 to the PhII was a big update performance wise all around, HDD's much bigger, even budget GPU's were a lot better than my old 7600GS) loads more ram 16Gb v 2Gb) massive update really and probably cost less than the orginal build.
Then FX6100 with the cashback and fairly big price cuts..IMHO worth if for Athlon II x4 or lower users.
As time has gone on I've increased performance a lot, and spent a lot less on processors than I used to. I would expect a longer time beteen updates in the future for me. Being 100% honest I changed processors too much early on, in some cases the improvement in performance was not really worth the hassle or cost..bar the move to a dual core from a single one.
Share your AMD update history (or indeed any other CPU's you bought) and your thoughs
