Budget CPUs

[faithwarrior118]

I'm trying to get an understanding how how each of these rates and decide on one for a budget build (Internet, WoW, Developement machine).

Does the E5200 outperform the AMD options? By how much?

How does the 4580e compare performancewise? Can it handle gaming?

All are in my price range. The 4580e is the cheapest at around $60, the other AMDs are around $75 and the Intel is about $85.

EDIT: I found this article http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...7300-pdc-e5200_10.html which was very helpful, but doesn't include the 4580e.

Where would the 4580e fit?

EDIT2: I don't overclock and pretty much run everything stock.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Well, the X2 6000+ is 3.1 Ghz, and the 4850e is 2.5 ghz, so I'm sure you can take it from there...

ALL processors can handle gaming. What games? What video card? What resolution? How much RAM?

 

[faithwarrior118]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
Well, the X2 6000+ is 3.1 Ghz, and the 4850e is 2.5 ghz, so I'm sure you can take it from there...

ALL processors can handle gaming. What games? What video card? What resolution? How much RAM?

What games? WoW (World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King)

What Video Card? Radeon 4670

What resolution? 1024x768 to 1280x800

How much RAM? 4GB, but I'm still running XP so I don't think it uses it all.

The E5200 is also 2.5 ghz, so are you saying the 4850e performs comparably to the E5200?

All the research I did on the 4850e seemed to indicate it was aimed at the HTPC market, which was why I was concerned it wouldn't handle gaming well.

Basically I'm currently running an old Socket 754 Athlon 64 3000+ on 1G of Ram with a 5800GT GPU. Everything was fine until I bought Wrath and now I'm experencing really poor framerates.

EDIT: It looks like (from what I saw @http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...7300-pdc-e5200_10.html ) that the E5200 and the 6000+ are roughly equal in terms of performance.

So the question that remains is, is the 4850e approximately equal in performance to these other CPUs.

Also is there any advantage to matching up an AMD chip with an ATI graphics card (since they are essentially the same company)?

EDIT2: It looks like the 4850e performs on par with a 4800+ (which would logically perform worse than the 6000+). So I can conclude that E5200 = 6000+ > 4850e

 

[Arkaign]

The 5200, even overclocked mildly, is beyond the reach of any X2 chip.

The X2s are excellent, it's just that the C2Ds are better.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
The 5200, even overclocked mildly, is beyond the reach of any X2 chip.

:thumbsup:

 

[Concillian]

For WoW: WoTLK

Just about any Dual core performs at a level where the video card starts limiting performance. It will struggle with a single core, but a 4850e or 5050e is perfectly fine for adequate WoW performance.

I have an e7200 and I have to underclock to around 2.0 GHz before it starts impacting performance at 1280x1024, and that's a minimal impact. a 4850e or 5050e is fine (and low power consumption.) If you're buying from newegg, you can find combo deals with the 5050e cheaper than the 4850e + motherboard.

4850e and 5050e will OC to the levels of a 6000+, but you will up the power consumption to 6000+ levels also.

e5200 is better performance, and similar power consumption to the 4850e and 5050e, but you very likely won't notice any difference in WoW, if this is strictly for WoW, you can save money and go with the AMD if you prefer, or you can spend a bit more on e5200 and have more power for the future. e5200 generally OC into the 3.0 GHz range on stock voltage and cooling, 3.4-3.5ish with more special attention.

HD4670 is adequate for WoW at max settings except dynamic shadows at your resolution.

Several of my guildies upgraded to a 4850e + 9600GT or 9800GT with the WotLK performance hit. They have all been quite happy with the results for how cheap the upgrade is. 9600GT is roughly equivalent to your HD4670.

 

[nyker96]

E5200 will outperform anything from AMD X2 line _after_ you overclock it to max.

 

[Kraeoss]

hehe just got a e2200 cant wait to oc