looking for upgrade tips

[gregt29]

Hi all, I was looking for advice on my upgrades for my system.
My specs can be found in my sig below, and I was considering
upgrading to the 6000+ or the 6400+, I read some bad reviews
about the 6400+ on newegg and was wondering if anyone could
give me some advice as to which to get.

 

[DSF]

I'll ask the same question I always ask:

What's driving the upgrade?

(By the way, the hard drives are "Caviar," not "Cavier.")

 

[jgigz]

Isn't the k9n sli plat s939 as well? If so the cpus will be much harder to find, seeing as no major etailers carry them, so you'd have to buy it off of ebay, heat or the like.

 

[heyheybooboo]

You just missed the X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache for $85. Keep your eye out for a price drop from $125 in the next few weeks.

Best bet would probably be the X2 5400+ Brisbane 2.8GHz 65W for $87.50
3GHz+ on stock volts and around 3.2GHz with a little bump

 

[gregt29]

I currently have upgradeitis. I did have a 939 motherboard with a 3500+
and an x800 pro 256 and 2 gigs of ddr, but for some odd reason I started
having problems after a power outage in my area and the power supply
died. It was an antec 480 watt power supply by the way. I purchase a new
power supply and then my harddrive fails, as I'm reinstalling windows on
one of my backups the motherboard start's acting funny, I get everything
working good no data lost or anything and later that night the motherboard
just fails entirely. So I head out to microcenter to pick up a new mobo and
processor and stop by best buy and pick up a 3870 that was on sale for $129
at best buy afterwards. But picking up the 3870 left me with little money for
the processor, so I just grabbed the cheapest dual core there, the 4400+.

While this is light years ahead of my last setup, I feel I'm a bit to close to
completely obsolete and would like to have processor that's relevant at
this time at least, and probably go to sli with a second 8800 gt. And to answer
the other question, it's an am2 motherboard, I'm hoping they add support for
the phenoms soon, and this thread will be rendered pointless, as I'll gladly pick
up one of those. Also, the very next week the 8800 gt goes on sale for $149 at
bestbuy and I took the 3870 back and added the extra $20 and picked up the
8800 gt.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

If you don't have a performance issue, or something you can't do with the system- why both upgrading? You most likely won't see much of a difference with a different processor.
Did you have the old setup on a surge protector? You said the harddrive failed while trying to install windows- with the new system, have you tried wiping it and testing to see if it works?

 

[robmurphy]

What motherboard do you have?

Some motherboards will not cope with the power needed by the X2 6000 and 6400.

If you can still get it the X2 5000 Black edition would be a good choice. The multiplier is unlocked. Toms Hardware did a review some months back you can check it out there.

Rob

 

[gregt29]

Originally posted by: Comdrpopnfresh
If you don't have a performance issue, or something you can't do with the system- why both upgrading? You most likely won't see much of a difference with a different processor.
Did you have the old setup on a surge protector? You said the harddrive failed while trying to install windows- with the new system, have you tried wiping it and testing to see if it works?

It actually does work but windows refuses to install on it, I removed it anyway
and replaced it with a new one I had lying around. But the reason I've been bit
by the upgrade bug is because I am a bit of a gamer and don't want to see my
processor on the not compatible list on the back of a box anytime soon.
Which seems to be heading this way soon after recently playing crysis and
reading that the new futuremark benchmarking suite requires at least a 6000+.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: gregt29

Originally posted by: Comdrpopnfresh
If you don't have a performance issue, or something you can't do with the system- why both upgrading? You most likely won't see much of a difference with a different processor.
Did you have the old setup on a surge protector? You said the harddrive failed while trying to install windows- with the new system, have you tried wiping it and testing to see if it works?

It actually does work but windows refuses to install on it, I removed it anyway
and replaced it with a new one I had lying around. But the reason I've been bit
by the upgrade bug is because I am a bit of a gamer and don't want to see my
processor on the not compatible list on the back of a box anytime soon.
Which seems to be heading this way soon after recently playing crysis and
reading that the new futuremark benchmarking suite requires at least a 6000+.

I don't think Crysis is the measuring stick - and certainly not Futuremark. Your rig is no where close to game obsolesence. Why would game designers exclude 95% of their market?

What resolutions? You should be happy at 16x12 for a long time. Going higher just bumps you into greater video card demand ...

And nVidia (and AMD) will always be willing to take your money

 

[gregt29]

Originally posted by: robmurphy
What motherboard do you have?

Some motherboards will not cope with the power needed by the X2 6000 and 6400.

If you can still get it the X2 5000 Black edition would be a good choice. The multiplier is unlocked. Toms Hardware did a review some months back you can check it out there.

Rob

MSI K9N SLI platinum am2, on MSI's website it say's that it's compatible
with the windsor 6000+. I was looking at the black edition but I'm not
real big on overclocking.a