Hello everyone, I've been looking at the AMD Phenom 9850 2.5ghz for some time now and I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not. Currently I am using an AMD X2 5600+ clocked at 2.8ghz. All I really do is play PC Games such as "The Orange Box" and other new titles (SPORE). When I'm not using my computer I allow World Community Grid to use my processor for their research. This is where I see the largest benefit. I'm also torn between the clock speeds. Would it be a smart decision to go from 2.8ghz to only 2.5ghz? I'm sure I could OC it though. So what do you think I should do, upgrade or not? Please don't tell me to go with Intel as It is not an option. System Specs: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ 2.8ghz ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe Motherboard 4gigs of DDR2 4-4-4-12 ZOTAC ZT-88TES3P-FCP GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor 150gigs OS: Vista 32bit Ultimate and Ubuntu 8.04
Your motherboard doesn't support Phenom CPU's. If you wanted to upgrade you'd have to buy a new motherboard that supports AM2+ sockets. With that said, it isn't worth the upgrade. Your OC'd Athlon is good enough.
What are you talking about?! Look: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - M2N-SLI Deluxe - AMD Live!™ Ready - Support AMD Socket AM2+/AM2 CPU - AMD Live™Ready! - NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Technology - Advanced Thermal Design: Heat-pipe Thermal solution - Dual channel DDR2 800 - ASUS Crystal Sound: ASUS Array Mic Noise Filter
Darn, my apologies. I could have sworn AM2 wasn't there previously :doh:. I checked it over here: Newegg.com - ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards And why doesn't newegg add Phenom to the "CPU Type" category! Newegg... you just made me look bad :dry:. In that case, the Phenom is definitely worth the purchase in my opinion. It's a Quad-Core compared to your Dual-Core and has a bigger L2 and L3 cache size. Its basically faster. Anyone else think differently?
