Upgrading a 5600 would be a good idea if you wanna keep playing. I have a X800XT and im severely thinking of upgrading although it still performes decently. I know its all promocional hype, and while i was hoping to upgrade my whole system this summer, ill...

Upgrading: does Athlon X2 5600+ bottleneck GTX 260?. I recently upgraded my GPU to a GTX260 (Palit Sonic 216) but kept my Athlon 64 X2 5600+ as it generally performs well. When I checked frame rates on Farcry2 I was surprised to find them much lower than in...

like the days of my HP where nothing could be upgraded in it except cards and memory. Now I need that extra processing power to get the rig from bottlenecking when i play GTA IV and other games coming out now. I upgraded my e521 with 4200+ to a 5600+ about...

just bought a AMD X2 5600 upgrading from AMD althon 64 3000+ hoping my games will run better with my x1950pro because all my games is so laggy right now with low settings. Seems like I am throwing my money down to the drain buying AMD x2 5600. Because people...

be interested to know in One I have an 8800GS and have been testing CPU performance between the A64 4000+, X2 4200+, and tonight I'll be installing the AM2 daughter card and testing an X2 5600+ in it. Quite the upgraders mobo supporting native AGP 8X, PCI-e16x,...

brains about something. I’m in the process of upgrading a PC to get it close to (or better than) and XBOX 360, as I’ve found upgrading to be cheaper. I’ve already upgraded the CPU to a 5600+ & I’m looking at getting a new graphics card. I currently...

PResario 5600. I have the 5600i and would like to upgrade more than just the memory. Am I able to upgrade the processor or clock speed as well. Thanks in advance. Taylor -- VinFriend Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq () The Presario...

you need an upgrade to last you till next year, the x1950 will do you just fine. But yeah, whats your PSU like??? well I have had the idea of upgrading for a while, and cause of costs I have aleady got a PSU and case that should be capable of higher end...

game at lower resolutions, you'll notice less of an improvement. I'm guessing by the looks of the parts, this machine is coming up on 2, maybe 3 years old. You might want to consider holding off as long as you can and upgrading to a core 2 duo or i7. I...

100.... I'm sure you can find them cheaper now. I live in the US tho, so prices are probally different... I no longer use my P4 system. I've since upgraded to AMD 5600+ with an 8800GT, and now I'm awaiting for my E8500 3.16ghz to arrive from FedEx...... But...