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Having buyers remorse...

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Lifer
My motherboard died about 2 weeks ago. While on newegg selecting a new socket 939, on impulse I also grabbed 2 1gb pc3200 ocz ram and a fx60 cpu thinking it would make my pc fly. Yeah, I know 939 is essentially dead tech, but I thought hay, with the processor 1/2 price from what it came out at, it would be a good deal to have my pc at its fastest.

Well, fast forward to now. Yes it's faster. BF2 loads real fast, but that is due to the ram. The pc itself didn't seem to give me the oomph I was expecting. I put my x2 3800 back in and BF2 loads just as quick. So I plan on eating the 15% stocking fee at newegg and sending my processor back.

Now it got me thinking, for the price I paid for the ram, mobo, and cpu, I could have invested in the Core Duo line! Ugh, so now I wonder if I would see the great difference by upgrading to Core Duo that I was expecting w/ the FX60?

EDIT: I should have stated the E6300 chip when asking about worth the upgrade.
 
I am not sure if BF2 takes advantage of dual cores so you might not notice a difference in that. You will definitely notice a difference when multi tasking though. Plus when overclocked, that chip beats almost anything out there in a price to performance ratio.
 
unless your doing something that your present computer takes a long time to do, like encoding or something, I doubt you'd notice much difference, since you already have a dual core AMD chip.

eventually the faster core duo will probably matter more, for an increasingly wider set of circumstances.
 
An E6300 is only a little faster than an X2 4600+, and the X2 3800+ you have now is apparently all you need to keep the 7900 busy.

If you're going to move to core 2 and want to see a real difference, you should be thinking E6600 and at least an 8800GTS, preferably GTX.
 
I've been doing incremental upgrades for the last couple of years, and have had buyers remorse about every single one except getting 2 gigs of RAM and upgrading the video card. This includes my opteron, raptor, x-fi, zalman, etc etc. I feel like there's a lesson to learn here somewhere, but it's just too much fun putting in new components even though I don't really get a return on my investment.

I feel your pain.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I think I'll wait for the next "next gen" before I really upgrade. I do plan on getting a better video card once dx10 has some games for it and the prices decrease and card selection increases.

Maybe I'll try to overclock the FX to see if it gets me better results. :evil:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know where the overclocking guides on this site went?
 
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