is athalon 4000 good enough for extreme gaming?

[corvetteguy]

i'm buying a really good system with dual 7800 gtx video cards and 2 150 gig raptors with raid 0 and 2g kingston hyperx ddr400
my question is if the athalon 4000 is good enough for extrme gaing with these other parts or if it is only worth getting the other stuff if i get an fx-55 or 57

keep in mind that i'm a newb while answering

 

[KingLoftusXII]

I play BF2 at 1600x1200 everything on high w/4xAA and average
40-60 fps with an AMD 64 3400+, 6800GT, and 2GB....
...so yeah, you should be fine.

I hope you're buying to build, not just buying. I wouldn't want to
know what they'd charge for that rig!

 

[Vile]

The 4400+ will handle everything just fine
But sure, if you can spare another 400 bucks, go for the FX series lol (Not that'll make much of a dif, since I've heard you can OC (Overclock) the 4000+ to match some entry lv FXs)

 

[Jason_dez]

YEAH dude the 400064 is compairable to the fx-53 in maxuim magazine if not almost the same chip.... 1mb l2 cache 2.4ghz san dieago (you can overclock of corse) read X2 vs 4000 in cpu chart dude it will answer maybe some of ur questions maybe get dual core cuz of daul core drivers and updates that improve fps throw that into ur mix and now ur all confused at what cpu u should buy new eh? i'm in the same dilemia, but i can't affort a gtx or a xf chip... so for now i'll settle with my new buyings in a few days i'll get a 7800gt and a 380064

 

[liquidpaper007]

with dual 7800gtx a 3000+ is enough for extreme gaming.

 

[paulbag]

4000+ Sandy would be grand, though as it was said above for the kinda rig your going with a 4400+X2 would be damn nice. Has the 1mb cache of the 4800+ (I think) without the cost.

But liquidpaper has a good point :lol:

 

[leorick]

it would do just fine, well actually, better than fine.

What does anybody think of the new FX60? The first dualcore FX, really fascinating stuff, dont you agree?

Does anybody own it already? Any feedbacks? :lol:

 

[gtr]

it would do just fine, well actually, better than fine.

What does anybody think of the new FX60? The first dualcore FX, really fascinating stuff, dont you agree?

Does anybody own it already? Any feedbacks? :lol:

Wow, just installed it yesterday. It is about 120% faster in installing drivers and multitasking! Is all duelcores this awesome or just this one? Wow, in comparison to upgrading, it like from my old XP1700 to the new P4 3.0ghz northwood with more than the normal hyper threading.

I'm still waiting for my cosair xms 2gig of ram vs the 512mb i'm currently using from my old computer to get this thing running.

 

[ChipDeath]

It is about 120% faster in installing drivers

Great! I spend 95% of my PC time installing drivers - must get one!

:tongue:

 

[Vile]

lol

 

[Abraxas]

Thats what I would go with if I decide to get Dual Core, the 4400+. Its only slightly slower, but if I wanted to do two games at once for some reason, I could easy.

 

[Abraxas]

it would do just fine, well actually, better than fine.

What does anybody think of the new FX60? The first dualcore FX, really fascinating stuff, dont you agree?

Does anybody own it already? Any feedbacks? :lol:

The only problem I have with going with the FX-60(skipped 59, change to even numbers, no 69 ...anyway) is that its the last FX before the M2 switch. This means that you have the highest FX 939 processor, which is pretty great, but the 57 still leads in gaming. And then you spent $1000+ on the last generation, when the new M2 is just as priced.

Cource I always wait about 6 months for the manufacturers to figure out they screwed up the first batch, before I get new tech. And thats with any new tech. And not everyone is releasing Dual Core updates. Only a select few that I know of.

 

[gtr]

And then you spent $1000+ on the last generation, when the new M2 is just as priced.

Cource I always wait about 6 months for the manufacturers to figure out they screwed up the first batch, before I get new tech. And thats with any new tech. And not everyone is releasing Dual Core updates. Only a select few that I know of.

I'll probably get a M2 stuff in 1-2years after most of the bugs is taken care of. It is about 6 months since the X2 appearance and figure the last X2 for the 939 should work best.

 

[mdd1963]

"What does anybody think of the new FX60?"

At $1330 from Newegg, thinking is all I'd ever do regarding that processor..

 

[FlyGuy]

If you're going to fork over the bucks for dual 7800GTX and 150Gig raptors why not go for the FX57. Sounds like you have some $$$ to burn anyways! 8) Dual core is crap for gaming.

 

[RichPLS]

Dual core is crap for gaming.

:roll: :roll: :roll: jealous I see...

 

[slvr_phoenix]

:roll: :roll: :roll: jealous I see...

:lol: :lol: :lol: I know that I am. I wish I had even half of the money going into that system to build myself a new one.

Though two things that I'm not jealous about would be the power bill and the noise. I just can't even imagine it.

 

[Vascular]

This guy is thinking about spending about $600 dollars on 300Gb of hard drive. Around $900 in video cards. Then asks if a $330 dollar processor is enough. Does anyone else see the irony? I wonder if even half the people who post this stuff ever buy it. :roll:

 

[Vascular]

I play BF2 at 1600x1200 everything on high w/4xAA and average
40-60 fps with an AMD 64 3400+, 6800GT, and 2GB....
...so yeah, you should be fine.

I hope you're buying to build, not just buying. I wouldn't want to
know what they'd charge for that rig!

I call shenanigans.

 

[shaido7]

I would say yes it is enough for awsome gamming the 4000 is actually and fx -53 they both are rated at 2.4 or 2.6 gightz cant remember and they each have 1 mb of cache pretty much the same chip performance wise.It is not an extreme processor but its the best bang for the buckyou can buy the 4000 for around 350 bux and the fx 57 cost close to a thousand there is only either 200-400 megahertz difference not worth all the money you would be better off buying a high quality colloing unit that will last you a long time than buying an extreme processor at the moment. I hope my info is correct just trying to help.

 

[imperfectcircle25]

Yes the AMD4000 is definitly fine for gaming and will save you quite a bit of money compared to an FX xhip. With good cooling, mobo and memory the 4000 can be OC's to near FX speeds.

 

[panda_man]

i'm buying a really good system with dual 7800 gtx video cards and 2 150 gig raptors with raid 0 and 2g kingston hyperx ddr400
my question is if the athalon 4000 is good enough for extrme gaing with these other parts or if it is only worth getting the other stuff if i get an fx-55 or 57

keep in mind that i'm a newb while answering

Look at the mother of all cpu charts on THG's website, you will see that the 334$ 4000+ scores roughly 5-10fps lower on every game when compared to the 811$ FX-55

Is 10 fps worth 500$ to you?

 

[masteraj88]

This guy is thinking about spending about $600 dollars on 300Gb of hard drive. Around $900 in video cards. Then asks if a $330 dollar processor is enough. Does anyone else see the irony? I wonder if even half the people who post this stuff ever buy it. :roll:

I agree on that. But man 4000+ is gonna do good on gaming. Just dont worry about getting the most expensive hardware to do excellent in gaming. I agree on the guy from ealier post about the 7800gt and the 3800+, i believe that will do excellent on gaming(getting that like in 2 days) and save a bunch of money for other things. Tell you the truth I rather take all that money i save and put it in my honda. Do more research theres about a million articles on building a high end gaming rig without spending 4grand.

 

[LordBelial]

RIght now i have the amd 4000+ sandiego, 2x1 gig stick 3200..7800 gtx oc and asus a8n sli delux mobo. the 4000 + rules. how ever, i have one gripe with the processor, and i know its the processor. this is most likely just me, because im not happy until i can run a game at max settings and resolution with out ANY slow downs. i mean if i see a noticable frame drop in a small area of a game, i hate that, which is prolly why i upgrade so often...so instead of upgrading..i simply went into my bios , over clocked 9% (which made it 2.6 or an fx-55 processor, which costs 811 bucks, more than double the price of the 4000+) and that made my day! that extra 200mhz boost makes all the parts that i saw a frame rate drop disappear. the 4000+ rules hands down tho. if you have good cooling and air flow, you can over clock it with ease like i have, and i idle at 31 degrees c, and after 2 hours of cs source, its at 41c..which is good in my opinion, awesome processor, especially since it went down 40 bucks since i got it

 

[Jason_dez]

wow nice to see such responce for once, well the guy decided to do exacly what i did i got
370064 1mb l2 cach oc'ed 2.4 (same as 4000 with outthe $400 pricetag and multyplier)
2bg dual channel xms cossair
a8n-sli
7800gt evga co 470mhz sli ready
200gb 16mb cache maxtor dimonmax 10
sound adugy2
good psu of corse antec
and yeah there you go extream gaming a t a decient price and go sli anytime he has $400 laying around maybe tax season