Is my AMD X2 4800+ s939 still good for today?

[LW07]

Or do I need to upgrade it? I use my PC for gaming(stuff like Crysis and other games) and web browsing.

 

[Zenoth]

It's good.

But a question that you could answer yourself is: Do I have the money to spend on an upgrade?

If you do, and you'd be the only one here to know for sure, then why not? Do you feel like your games are being slowed down due to the processor's limits? If so then go ahead and upgrade. But one thing if for sure is that you don't have much options in terms of GPU upgrades with your CPU if you want to avoid bottlenecking. For example, my current 8800GTS was bottlenecked by my previous X2 4400+. Then I changed my CPU to an X2 4800+ (used) and OC'ed it to 2.85Ghz, I kept the same GPU, and suddenly my games' performance went sky high. The CPU architecture was the same, but a "mere" gain of 600Mhz or so gave me around 15+ extra frames in most of my games.

Suffice it to say that upgrading WILL increase performance, the real question is can you upgrade? If so, do it, especially if you play recent games like Crysis, although that one is much more dependent on good graphics cards than good processors (not to say that good processors won't help either, basically Crysis needs everything good, if you want to play it with maxed settings that is).

 

[cubeless]

no... u must spend 1 billion dollars upgrading!!!

i agree with the above poster... u need to get an x2 up to 2.8+ghz to stretch an 8800's legs... my kid just complained that wic performs worse on our 2.65ghz x2/8800 than on our 3.2ghz e4500/x1800xtpe box...

i can't see upgrading within the amd space right now... if i have to spend > $100 i can get a frys intel combo that will be a better performer...

 

[LW07]

I have a X1900XT right now and am wanting to upgrade to an 8800GT, but I don't want a slow CPU slowing it down, and I am interested in the Intel Wolfdale series(especially the E8300 coming out).

 

[Tweakin]

See my sig regarding my X2...my son dogs this beast all the time with Crysis, HL2 and FarCry...It runs just fine. At these speeds the cpu is not the real bottleneck in the system...

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: LW07
I have a X1900XT right now and am wanting to upgrade to an 8800GT, but I don't want a slow CPU slowing it down, and I am interested in the Intel Wolfdale series(especially the E8300 coming out).

As zenoth said, if you can afford the upgrade, do it. An E8300 is a significant upgrade over an X2 4800+, and would allow a 8800GT to perform to its full potential.

That said, you can still get reasonable gaming performance if you can overclock the X2 to around 2.7 - 2.8GHz.

 

[taltamir]

I saw a huge tremendous improvement going from an X2 3800+ (2ghz windsor F2 core) to an E8400 (3ghz wolfdale). But your 4800 is faster then the 3800 so it is hard to say.

Generally speaking the ideal for computers is BALANCE. You need to balance the speed of your processor, ram, video card, HDD, etc... Upgrading a single item simply moves the bottleneck to another part of the system, resulting in rather small improvements.