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geforce fatality
AMD upgrade to current Pentium?
I am torn right now. I am running a P4 Prescott at 3.0Ghz stock, and I have 2 gigs of 433Mhz RAM. My video card is a nVidia Geforce 7800GS. Sound card is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality.
Here's the question...
I am thinking about upgrading my computer. Would it really be worth it to spend the money on a new board, RAM and CPU, keeping in mind I have the 7800GS GPU? I was looking between the AMD AM2+ sockets, the Athlon X2 and the Opterons, but the top speeds that I can afford are no faster than what I'm running now, other than the RAM speed and the Prescott is still a dual core chip. It runs pretty reliable.
I use recording software like Cakewalk Sonar often, but I also play a lot of 3d games. Is it worth my time right now to upgrade anything, considering what I have still runs pretty well. If so, for recording with Cakewalk AND playing Diablo 3 when it gets released, which AMD processor would be in my best interest? Thanks!
Athlon 64s and Phenoms do perform significantly better than P4s...a 2.4GHz Athlon 64 single core can beat a 3GHz P4 pretty easily as Athlons have a more efficient architecture, and can do much more work clock-for-clock. The dual cores are even better.
Prescott isn't a dual-core, it's a fake dual core that uses Hypeprthreading to make it have 2 logical cores, but in reality it only has a single physical core. A true dual core with two physical cores would perform much better.
It's possible to upgrade to a relatively fast Athlon X2, 4GB of DDR2-1066, and a decent Gigabyte AM2+ motherboard for about $170 + OS reinstall.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.186160
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
If you can afford one though a Phenom II X4 quad-core will be much better.