Worthy investement?

Marcus_X

Marcus_X

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Hi guys,

I've been seeing the AMD X2 4800+ Toledo CPU dropping in price fast, but I'm wondering if it's a worthy investement? I'm thinking of replacing my AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego with this in the near future.

I mainly focus playing the latest games, and since more and more games seem to benefit from having a dual-core cpu's I was wondering if I could expect better performance from this possible upgrade.

If you wonder what system I'm using to play these games please refer to the "My computer" link to the left.

Many thanks,

Marcus
 
It would depend on the game. Quake 4 will, but wether you notice it is a different story. The only game I'm aware of that's supposed to really take advantage of dual core/SMP is some upcoming DX10 game called 'Alan Wake'.

If you're wanting to encode and game at the same time, this would be a good investment, but unless you know that a game will give you a marked improvement, I'd hold onto the money, and see what the next GPU cycle brings for video cards or just put it toward a Core 2 box with SLI or Crossfire.
 
well my moto is might as well. i did, when building my current pc i was just going to make a replica of my other one but then i found a 4600 for like 50 dollars cheaper that normal so i got it.
 
Too bad I'm not building a replica Swansen, the difference in a new Athlon 4000+ and a new Athlon X2 4800+ is still 160,- ~ 200,- euro's at various retailers.

It's seen that the dual-core cpu's appearance didn't get as much excitement as the new quad-core cpu's get at the moment and game developers are more interested in developing games for quad-core technology like you see Valve has stated a couple of days ago.

I'm only interested in upgrading since multi core cpu's are dropping in price fast, and you see more and more of today's prebuilt systems from the better larger home pc developers are having multi-core cpu's as standard option.

If there is no real benefit like faster overall speed of all tasks which I don't even perform simultaniously I guess I can wait until quadcore has been out for a while and Vista and DirectX10 are bug free. The most games I play run smooth as hell at 1280 x 1024 with all options on high anyway :D

Thanks for the advice though,

Marcus
 
The 4800+ is an X2 Athlon64, which has 2 cores on it. It's like having 2 CPUs in one physical package. There's a cache for each core, but more cache tends to add more cost than performance, so unless you have an application that makes good use of cache, spending gobs of money for a CPU with tons of cache is a waste. The 4800+ is clocked faster, but it's not quite on the same blow-for blow level given the dual-core nature.

With 2GB of RAM, he'll be set for awhile.
 
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