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Hello everyone
i'm currently looking to upgrade my cpu and motherboard due to current motherboard dying (i'm looking for a replacement for it as well since i can then pass it off to other family but thats a whole another story).
anyways the more research i do the more i get confused. i'd like a six core intel but thats way out of my price range. even their quad cores are awefully expensive so i started looking at some amd chips. i have a amd athlon x2 4ooo or something like that. its like a 2ghz single core cpu but its a strong sucker. in fact when i first bought my current one i couldn't figure out why the it was faster than the e6600 but then after searching found out my motherboard was only using one core, needed a firmware upgrade to enable the use of both.
anyways i started looking at the six core amd chips and for like 260 y ou can get a 3.2ghz black edition one, although i read somewhere black editions are for over clockers and don't come with fans and such the description clearly stats it comes with heat sink and fan so i am confused on that some. there's also a 2.8 ghz one thats cheaper but i can't recall the price off hand.
now i started running into mentions that the six core would actually preform slower than a lower priced quad core and to me that just sounds bad but their argument is that when the six core is not being taxed it shuts down 3 of them so in fact you have a trio core where that don't happen on a quad core. i found a 3.5ghz quad core for 180 amd a 3.4 for 159 so i'm tring to determine whats the best option for me given that money is a factor otherwise i'd got for top of the line 1k intel chip, no thats not true i don't think i could every get myself to justify that kind of money.
anyways i rarely play intensive games, in fact my game of choice right now is a texted or point and click brower game called samurai of legend so you know its not taxing my system at all. i do like the fallout games but haven't played them recently. i don't typically like the first person shooters as they give me headaches.
i do occasionally do video encoding or re-encoding and i tend to play hd video files most are 720p but i've played some 1080p but those approach the limits of my machine if i am doing anything else. and since no one knows me here i rarely only do one thing at a time, and right now this is killing me to only have one monitor going on my pc due to the motherboard dying.
i tend to have a hd video playing in vlc going on one monitor then on the other i do my stuff. i'll have newsgroup down loader going or extracting my files, etc, browsers open and such, sometimes i'll have a anti virus scan going in the background and such and once in a while i'll try doing all the above and do some video encoding. my machine handles all that fairly well and has preformed very good for me. when i throw the encoding in on top of everything else i do have more problems than normal so normally i'll start the encoding, and newsgroup downloads and watch a video (720p normally) and i'll turn off one monitor and lay-down and watch tv.
ok now that you all know typically how i use the pc is a six core worth the money for me or would overall i get better performance from the quad core.
and remember i'm coming from an intel dual core e6600 so i'm thinking even the amd quad core is going to be a huge increase for me. right now my dual core is 2.4 and if i go for a amd quad its probably going to be the 3.5ghz.
please i'll take any suggestions, especially if its a good comparable motherboard, unfortunately though due to money reasons i won't be getting more than 4gigs of memory, right now i have 6gigs of ddr2 which don't seem to be available on those cpu motherboards but then i am not sure i'd want to find one that would use it. even now i never use more than 3.5gigs of that unless i am running virtual pc's that auto take and use the ram which i rarely do.
i don't plan on upgrading anything other than the cpu, motherboard, and ram. depending on overall price i might get a new case so i can pass my current pc when i get a replacement motherboard off to a family member.
my video card i think is more than adequate for me, if i recall its a geforce 9200 gts 1gig of memory.
i currently have 4 sata hard drive and plan on buying 1 more 2tb Western digital and only one or two hard drives would even be connected in the new pc, one will migrate to the family member and two will be used in external enclosure or an external dock, which i've been looking at since i made the mistake of lending my 500gig external drive to my sister for a week about 6 months ago.
anyway any idea and suggestions and clarification would greatly be appreciated.
thanks
ryan g shaffer
i'm currently looking to upgrade my cpu and motherboard due to current motherboard dying (i'm looking for a replacement for it as well since i can then pass it off to other family but thats a whole another story).
anyways the more research i do the more i get confused. i'd like a six core intel but thats way out of my price range. even their quad cores are awefully expensive so i started looking at some amd chips. i have a amd athlon x2 4ooo or something like that. its like a 2ghz single core cpu but its a strong sucker. in fact when i first bought my current one i couldn't figure out why the it was faster than the e6600 but then after searching found out my motherboard was only using one core, needed a firmware upgrade to enable the use of both.
anyways i started looking at the six core amd chips and for like 260 y ou can get a 3.2ghz black edition one, although i read somewhere black editions are for over clockers and don't come with fans and such the description clearly stats it comes with heat sink and fan so i am confused on that some. there's also a 2.8 ghz one thats cheaper but i can't recall the price off hand.
now i started running into mentions that the six core would actually preform slower than a lower priced quad core and to me that just sounds bad but their argument is that when the six core is not being taxed it shuts down 3 of them so in fact you have a trio core where that don't happen on a quad core. i found a 3.5ghz quad core for 180 amd a 3.4 for 159 so i'm tring to determine whats the best option for me given that money is a factor otherwise i'd got for top of the line 1k intel chip, no thats not true i don't think i could every get myself to justify that kind of money.
anyways i rarely play intensive games, in fact my game of choice right now is a texted or point and click brower game called samurai of legend so you know its not taxing my system at all. i do like the fallout games but haven't played them recently. i don't typically like the first person shooters as they give me headaches.
i do occasionally do video encoding or re-encoding and i tend to play hd video files most are 720p but i've played some 1080p but those approach the limits of my machine if i am doing anything else. and since no one knows me here i rarely only do one thing at a time, and right now this is killing me to only have one monitor going on my pc due to the motherboard dying.
i tend to have a hd video playing in vlc going on one monitor then on the other i do my stuff. i'll have newsgroup down loader going or extracting my files, etc, browsers open and such, sometimes i'll have a anti virus scan going in the background and such and once in a while i'll try doing all the above and do some video encoding. my machine handles all that fairly well and has preformed very good for me. when i throw the encoding in on top of everything else i do have more problems than normal so normally i'll start the encoding, and newsgroup downloads and watch a video (720p normally) and i'll turn off one monitor and lay-down and watch tv.
ok now that you all know typically how i use the pc is a six core worth the money for me or would overall i get better performance from the quad core.
and remember i'm coming from an intel dual core e6600 so i'm thinking even the amd quad core is going to be a huge increase for me. right now my dual core is 2.4 and if i go for a amd quad its probably going to be the 3.5ghz.
please i'll take any suggestions, especially if its a good comparable motherboard, unfortunately though due to money reasons i won't be getting more than 4gigs of memory, right now i have 6gigs of ddr2 which don't seem to be available on those cpu motherboards but then i am not sure i'd want to find one that would use it. even now i never use more than 3.5gigs of that unless i am running virtual pc's that auto take and use the ram which i rarely do.
i don't plan on upgrading anything other than the cpu, motherboard, and ram. depending on overall price i might get a new case so i can pass my current pc when i get a replacement motherboard off to a family member.
my video card i think is more than adequate for me, if i recall its a geforce 9200 gts 1gig of memory.
i currently have 4 sata hard drive and plan on buying 1 more 2tb Western digital and only one or two hard drives would even be connected in the new pc, one will migrate to the family member and two will be used in external enclosure or an external dock, which i've been looking at since i made the mistake of lending my 500gig external drive to my sister for a week about 6 months ago.
anyway any idea and suggestions and clarification would greatly be appreciated.
thanks
ryan g shaffer
) pushing 2 monitors - 1 DVI & 1 d-sub
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