Ahahaha I didnt even get a dual core

[WaTaGuMp]

Well after getting antsy to upgrade my comp, today I just said the heck with it and bought a 4000+ instead of a dual core, for 150 bucks and didnt have to worry about hotfixes etc for the AMD dual cores I am in business. Seems like a good chip to go aith my X1900XT, this is my 1st AMD and im pretty happy. The beauty of this is later I can always get a dual core if I so have to cause my mobo can run them also. I am a gamer mostly playinf WoW so this runs it just fine and I am sure anything else i throw at it will also work well.

There is a part of me that wishes I did wait but hey I built the whole thing for 700 bucks cause I got to use olds parts. The bad thing was the damn connector on my SATA main drive broke and I had to grab a backup HD, its IDE but oh well SATA isnt the end all of comp upgrades. I guess this only shows what alot of us know and that a killer GPU will do wonders over a CPU anyday of the week. So if people wanna build a system for a good price the single core chips still perform quite well. Now time to relax while people come call me stupid for doing a build this way, be gentle please.

 

[broly8877]

Ewww, single core.

Everyone below me is free to quote this as a reponse.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: broly8877
Ewww, single core.

Everyone below me is free to quote this as a reponse.

Yeah I know I hope my comp doesnt get too slow multi-tasking, like running vent and WoW at the same time lol. If I wanna go wild I can always run winamp and WoW.

 

[Cali]

what mobo do you have? and you could have bought a X2 3800 for 150$ FYI

 

[John]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
today I just said the heck with it and bought a 4000+ instead of a dual core, for 150 bucks and didnt have to worry about hotfixes etc for the AMD dual cores I am in business. Now time to relax while people come call me stupid for doing a build this way, be gentle please.

:roll: They're not hotfixes. They're optional and take less than 2 minutes to install including the reboots. If you can install chipset, video, sound, and other drivers I fail to see the inconvenience. In the end as long as you're happy who really cares what we think.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Cali
what mobo do you have? and you could have bought a X2 3800 for 150$ FYI

Asus A8N SLI Premium.

 

[Trey22]

Wow, you truly are a gump.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Trey22
Wow, you truly are a gump.

QFT

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: broly8877
Ewww, single core.

 

[Farmer]

Hmmm, 4000+ for $150, X2 3800+ for $150, I'm sorry, I can't say that's a good decision.

 

[Zebo]

So much hate in here

Nice chip... Good move, dual cores are way overated for gamers a casual users. Hot and unessesary and may cripple your overclock potential. Crank that baby up to FX-57/

 

[Furen]

Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

Coming from a P4 2.8 northy and being on AGP I can say for a fact you are wrong. So what if its not the fastest chip out there, as long as I can run 40 fps and up I dont care. I use to be one of the people that every time something new came out I had to have it, it took me a long time to learn that you dont need to do this being a gamer. GPU>CPU.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

He has the fastest.. well unless you count the 7950...

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Zebo
So much hate in here

Nice chip... Good move, dual cores are way overated for gamers a casual users. Hot and unessesary and may cripple your overclock potential. Crank that baby up to FX-57/

I think it was also a good move its still a 2.4 chip so what if its not dual core.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

Coming from a P4 2.8 northy and being on AGP I can say for a fact you are wrong. So what if its not the fastest chip out there, as long as I can run 40 fps and up I dont care. I use to be one of the people that every time something new came out I had to have it, it took me a long time to learn that you dont need to do this being a gamer. GPU>CPU.

The big deal with A64 is that frame rates never drop below a playable level compared to netburst which is very eratic in way it delivers frames..

Check this out for details
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1854788,00.asp

You made a good choice ..don't let the elitists in here discourage.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

Coming from a P4 2.8 northy and being on AGP I can say for a fact you are wrong. So what if its not the fastest chip out there, as long as I can run 40 fps and up I dont care. I use to be one of the people that every time something new came out I had to have it, it took me a long time to learn that you dont need to do this being a gamer. GPU>CPU.

The big deal with A64 is that frame rates never drop below a playable level compared to netburst which is very eratic in way it delivers frames..

Check this out for details
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1854788,00.asp

You made a good choice ..don't let the elitists in here discourage.

Heh they wont and heres why, I have been building comps for a long time now and till this date they have all been Intel. I was going to get the 4600+ and was very set in doing so, but after doing some more homework along with what I have learned over the years the dual core just didnt seem like it was a need for me. Are they better? in some ways yes they are but I am over the whole epeen of OMG look 150 FPS. I cant do 150 FPS no matter what anyhow since I run vsync and a 60 refresh rate.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Good job! I'm still running a 3700+ single core @ 2.8ghz. With all the conroe hubbub and the AMD price drops, I've been itching to upgrade to an X2 but for the life of me I can't justify it. I very, very rarely encode a video, the only multi-threaded app that I run is photoshop and not very often and just for basic touchups, and I don't do heavy multitasking. I just hope that good cheap 939 X2's are still around when and if I need to upgrade

 

[River Side]

well it's not future proof.. whatever that means.. if next releases of the games start using dual cores efficiently OR if AMD scrambles to save it's life and adds some kind of patch for "reverse hyperthreading" which let's single threaded apps use both cores.. then you'd probably regret the move.. otherwise.. good for you.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: River Side
well it's not future proof.. whatever that means.. if next releases of the games start using dual cores efficiently OR if AMD scrambles to save it's life and adds some kind of patch for "reverse hyperthreading" which let's single threaded apps use both cores.. then you'd probably regret the move.. otherwise.. good for you.

If this happens then I simply get a dual core, cause them mobo supports them. :thumbsup:

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

Yeah, unless you want to guarantee yourself 2.8 Ghz with a cheap board, or ~3.0 with a good board. BTW, Gump, my 4000 arrives today. Now I just have to get all of the other parts together.:disgust:

edit: Ooh, I forgot about not having to use a RAM divider on your PC4800.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: Furen
Haha, pretty good responses so far. Horrible decision, in my opinion. You wont even feel the benefit of going for a 4000+ unless you have an extremely high-end video card.

Yeah, unless you want to guarantee yourself 2.8 Ghz with a cheap board, or ~3.0 with a good board. BTW, Gump, my 4000 arrives today. Now I just have to get all of the other parts together.:disgust:

edit: Ooh, I forgot about not having to use a RAM divider on your PC4800.

Right on brutha, best of luck with your chip. I dont O/C so you are going to have to bring it home for us both. :beer:

 

[Captante]

Nothing wrong with a single core, although I still would have gone with a 3800+ X2 myself. Enjoy!

 

[delsvr]

Had a P4 myself -- scored a Pentium D 945 at $150, no new mobo/ram/vid card. Very happy.

 

[NaOH]

You could have gotten a 3800x2 and had both cores running at 2.4ghz. But that is just me =)