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seen the price of 64 x2 6000+ lately?
- Thread starter McBunny
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ex Clio 172 owner :(
I'm thinking of upgrading soon.
Is there any real point to dual core? Would it speed up games or is it, like I think, so you can do something in the background like burn a dvd while playing a game, ie one core per task?
Would a 4400 chip be just as quick in a game as a x2 4400 chip?
Just wondering why the need for 4 cores on a home pc?
Is there any real point to dual core? Would it speed up games or is it, like I think, so you can do something in the background like burn a dvd while playing a game, ie one core per task?
Would a 4400 chip be just as quick in a game as a x2 4400 chip?
Just wondering why the need for 4 cores on a home pc?
Revels Mum & Sister
Just messing fella. That is a fantastic price for a serious piece of kit really. I have nothing agaisnt AMD, until the Dual Core Intels I used AMD
Games are now starting to use dual cores so you get an benefit ca be as much as an 80% increase in performance. Reason they dont make faster single cores is basically we have reached a limit with current tech when you start making it faster heat increases and unless you all want to switch to watercooling its just not logical to keep ramping up speeds plus multiple processing is faster anyway on applications designed to take advantage of it.
Plus processor speeds reflecting performance are a bit daft. As the new 2.6ghz intel core2duo chips outperform the old 3.6ghz P4 chips.
SLK 350
A 6000+ (£147) will put in similar benches to a C2D E6700 (£300+). Only problem being the AMD is stretched to the max, no OCing to be had at all.
The flipside to the coin is you can get a C2D E4300 for £95, and OC it stupidly quickly.
I just wish AMD would pull their finger out of thir fking sore arseholes and see the masses of it's former users (like me) who are stuck on socket 939 crying out for a 6000+. I'll be buggered if im going to upgrade to AM2, just so I can buy their latest chips.
They're taking a serious beating though, and by the time they drop their production to 55nm, Intel will be onto 45nm and their next architecture - It's a long way back for AMD me thinks.
SLK 350
Wozzaa, it's not dead at all. Some recent survey I looked at on a PC forum shown that 49% of AMD users were still using 939 - Now if AMD can't address those users waiting to upgrade with their latest incarnation of chips then it's pretty obvious why they are going downhill fast. As it stands they will lose that 49% of people to Intel's C2D platform.
