I've been talking about upgrading my pc for ages & I’m finally going to do it, but I just don’t know if I need a £100+ processor when I can get an AMD 6000+ X2 for £60
It depends on your criteria
I look about at what the latest from both camps is, read the spec sheets paying particular attention to the TDP, and look at pricing and benchmarks. Once I've chosen the range I'll work out the best Ghz per £ for each processor in that range and pick the one that scores highest on the day I order. I don't bother looking at quads - I've been using duals for years and not found any performance issues that'd be helped by adding more processors in a single user machine.
AMD stuff is almost always better value, BUT - generally the motherboards available don't meet my criteria. So I'll go with an Intel CPU and an Intel board.
(To answer, it'd be quicker than the X4 9950. You don't need a quad. And it's better than the 6000 X2, but the differences are apples and pears.)
Cheers Cools, So there is no need for a Quad (I kind of thought that).
The price difference is not just processor with shuttles Looking at it the costs are getting out of hand. £600-800 by the time I add a monitor, new speakers, keyboard, mouse……
So I think I’ll just stick with the crappy desktop for a little longer. sigh
45nm design, 6mb cache, easily OC to 4ghz. I have one running Gauntlet Legends around 97-103% on Mame 64-bit. Shuttle Prima XPC case intel p35 mobo. ArcadeVGA, 8gb Ram (it's cheap so I splurged) etc.
45nm design, 6mb cache, easily OC to 4ghz. I have one running Gauntlet Legends around 97-103% on Mame 64-bit. Shuttle Prima XPC case intel p35 mobo. ArcadeVGA, 8gb Ram (it's cheap so I splurged) etc.
Now i just need to get me a stripped out OS to run it - i tried vliting vista64 but it goes into a loop on updating and then switches it self off.
I guess vista64 is better than vista32, but would xp64 be better than vista32, and would tinyXP32 be better than the lot of them because it has so little running?
I couldnt belive the bloat in vista when i installed it btw - terrible, terrible OS IMHO
Looking at it the costs are getting out of hand. £600-800 by the time I add a monitor, new speakers, keyboard, mouse……
