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Processor for games
Name: yas Date: February 16, 2006 at 03:40:40 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: 2.4/512 Product: INTEL/PENTIUM 4
Comment:
Hi guys can you tell me which processor is good for games intel pentium 4 640 3.2ghz or amd athlon 64 3200+ 2ghz
Name: Cobra_R Date: February 16, 2006 at 04:40:13 Pacific
Reply:
The AMD Athlon 64 3200+, then overclock it to 2.4ghz and you will really start to see a preformance increase over the Pentium 4 640 3.2ghz processor in terms of gaming.
Although Intel processors a good processors, they are overrated for their price IMO.
Pemtium D Smithfield cores are a prime example of that. Worst dual core processor you can buy. Infact they are that bad of a dual core processor that a single core mainstream processor can out benchmark them in nearly 90% of all benchmark test when up against the same ghz speed. Xbit labs had a big artical on the first generation Pentium D's
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