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Originally Posted by staffy  yes it means theres 2 cores running at 2.5ghz. but not 5ghz doesn't always work that way. not all software fully support multicore. not sure if this is right, but think if a program doesn't support. then when it uses over 100% cpu load, the extra spills over to the second core. don't quote me on that as not really to sure, others might know .
as for games, the amd @ 2.5 is going be faster than the p4, only if the gpu isn't going to be the bottleneck. if the card can only do 25fps @ 1024res say with p4 then its only going do 25 with the amd. same sort of thing the other way but its going be a bloody fast card to max out the amd @ 2.5ghz. you've said a gforce 512mb card but not what model it is. this could be ur bottleneck and paying out more on ram isn't going help as much as a new card. really need to know what card ur using now? plus what windows ur using, some are limited. no point in putting 4gig in if the os only can use 2gig.
but yes the amd is going be faster at doing other stuff. test it do the same thing on each and time it. only bring home if u can live with the p4 been a bit slower at work. no good if u got wait for it and get stressed. time is money. |
The Crap Motherboard than my single core P4 prescott 3.06GHz is on says it will take 4 gig of RAM maximum, but it says that not the full 4 gig not will be used....Can't remember what it said, but something with regards to only 3-3.5 gig of the 4 gig will be used, for some reason.
Where as the machine over in my Shop, according to the motherboard manual, Can take up to 8Gig of RAM. & has 2 more RAM slots than the board the P4 is on.
The AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+ is running on Windows XP Home SP3, same as what the P4 is running on.
As for the Card that's in the AMD System, it's a Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT, but if I know that the AMD chip will definitely out-perform the P4 chip, then The AMD System, will have the 9400 GT graphics card ripped out and one of these 1 gig graphics cards in:
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As I love playing Raindow Six Vegas 2 and cOD4 etc etc. But with the p4 when playing Rainbow Six, to stop the game being extremely jerky and unplayable, I have to turn everything to the lowest possible settings etc in the Video options.
So, would the AMD Athlon 64 4200+ Dual Core, with 4 gig of ram and a !gig card defintely and VERY convincingly wipe the floor with a single core P4 3.06Ghz Prescot Cpu, with 512mb card etc??
Hopefully, with the AMD dual core chip, 4 gig of Ram and 1gb graphics card I will actually be able to turn most, if not all of the video options in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 to HIGH, instead of LOW or OFF as I currently have to with the P4.
cheers
Matt