Is there a web site for benchmarking

[Keeper]

CPU's of different VERSIONS?
I.E. I am presently running a AMD XP 2800 Clocked to 3090 (I think) and I am getting ~2.3 in the "real" clock speed..

I keep seeing deals on chips like AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Toledo 2.2GHz Socket 939

I know I know faster mem, PCI video cards ETC etc etc will get me a speed hit......
It has been a LONG time since I upgraded, and really, there is NOTHING I cannot run now (Except Bio Shock Shader 3 issue) but I was just cruising around the "upgrade world"....
As my NEXT upgrade will have to cost $'s:
SATA drives, new mem, new vid etc.... I was just wondering where the CPU bang for the buck can be viewed... In my opinion, if I cant OC this chip, I lose mghz's!!!!! Yet to a layman a 4200 show SMOKE a 3100 (My approximate OC chip)
I am really NOT sure...

Needless to say in the last 3 years, the CPU market has gotten COMPLICATED...

PS, my system, is for gaming... (SHHHH Dont tell wifey)

 

[MarcVenice]

Yes there is

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

 

[graysky]

Have a look at my x264 video encoding benchmark. It is a "real world" test, not an artificial gigs/sec RAM test.

 

[JustaGeek]

Futuremark ORB.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectsearch.jsp

 

[Acanthus]

You dont mention the rest of your system you would be upgrading from.

As for a value system thats easy to overclock...

Abit IP35-E motherboard, and Intel Core Duo 2140.

Garunteed high overclock stepping Here

The cheapest place for the IP35-E right now appears to be newegg.

If you pair that cheap cpu with some DDR2-800 memory and that motherboard, you should easily hit 8x400 on the stock cooler with a small voltage bump.