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Processor Upgrade
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Name: Fuzzy Logic
Date: January 15, 2007 at 10:13:57 Pacific
Subject: Processor UpgradeOS: XP ProCPU/Ram: Sempron 3000/1GBModel/Manufacturer: Home made job :- |
Comment: I am thinking of upgrading my PC, and I am undecided about which processor to get. I have heard good and bad things about intel and AMD, even though I have been told by some people that intels dual core procesor is now the way to go, i have other people telling me that AMN are still the best. I have narrowed down my descision to two processors... Athlon 64x2 4400+
Intel Core 2 Duo e6300 what do you recommend and why?
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Response Number 2
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Name: Sabertooth
Date: January 15, 2007 at 11:35:14 Pacific
Subject: Processor Upgrade |
Reply: (edit)Well, there two variants of the X2 4400+, the 939 (Toledo) & the AM2 (Windsor). The S939 will run you at least $250 for the retail package and for AM2 add another $50 or more to that amount. Ironically an AM2 4600+ clocked higher by 200MHz but with half as much L2 is actually cheaper than these two. Anyhow if you've set aside that much money just for the CPU, you must be planning on building something pretty decent & you best be looking at building around a (C2D) Conroe, no doubt, you'll get better value for your money overall. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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Response Number 5
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Name: Sabertooth
Date: January 15, 2007 at 14:07:25 Pacific
Subject: Processor Upgrade |
Reply: (edit)Hey Fuzzy, I actually used the Conroe term loosely back there, but the fact of the matter is, a true Allendale (C2D) comes *native* with 2MB L2 Cache and even despite being very often referred to as Allendales the E6300/E6400 are actually conroes with half of their L2 disabled. The recently surfaced (C2D) E4300 is actually a true Allendale because of unlike the E6300/E6400 it comes *native* with 2MB L2 Cache. This is also the same core to be used in the junior models of the E6000 series. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cp...
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Response Number 6
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Name: Cobra_R
Date: January 15, 2007 at 15:34:24 Pacific
Subject: Processor Upgrade |
Reply: (edit)The Core 2 Duo 6300/6400 with half of its L2 cache disabled from the full featured Core 2 Duo 6600/6700/6800 reminds me of what AMD did when they came out with a AMD 64 X2 4600+ on the Toledo Core with half of it's cache disabled from the full featured AMD 64 X2 4800+ model. The Allendale core will be the new budget dual core processor core which will replace the Celeron D processor budget line and the up and coming Pentium E2000 baes on the Allendale core is going to target the Celeron D price range. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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