Phenom II 925 x4 vs. Athlon x2 5000 ???

[mizzou]

question,

i want to know performance diff for these two cpu's in this system

windows 7 PRO (right now xp but my CD Is on its way)
AM2 MOBO compatible w/ this 925 phenom
DDR2 800 2 gig ram
1 x 4850


I will soon go cross-fire 2x4850 which is why I want to upgrade my CPU.

How big of a boost will this be to my proposed setup going from athlon x2 5000 to phenom 925?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=2539#anchor_os

 

[Earley]

You're going to see a very big improvement going from the slower dual core brisbane with no L3 cache to the newer Phenom II chip. We *are* talking about Phenom II right, not Phenom. And the nice thing is that IIRC that chip is AM3, correct? So you can take it to a new DDR2 Mobo later when you want to upgrade, for another speed bump.

I roll with a DDR3 Mobo and dual crossfire 4850s, but an AM3 720. Later I will just upgrade to a 965 or whatever AMD comes out with next and because I'm on AM3 all I have to do is change out the CPU and nothing else.

 

[jvroig]

Very big boost: Benchies

The Athlon X2 5000+ is a good processor (mine is exactly that as well) but it's pretty old tech now.

(BTW: The benchies are for the 920, not 925, but you get the idea)

 

[mizzou]

awesome, I had no clue that AT had that bench program!! hah!

I also like the idea of possibly just upgrading MOBO + DDR3 ram at a later time w/ AM3. It fits my financial goals on upgrading pretty easily.

I think I'm going to just purchase the CPU on my own and then see if Mr. Santa Claus can somehow bring me a 4850

 

[mizzou]

Forgot to mention that my x2 5000 is OC'd to 3.01 ghz, so it's basically a x2 6000.....so comparatively that makes the jump less then impressive from the whole gaming perspective =(

 

[jvroig]

That's only for games that are single-threaded or can utilize only 2 threads anyway.

And that's not a "real-life" usage scenario. In real life, you'd have other things in the background, or might have something suddenly run in the background in the middle of playing your game (like your scheduled antivirus scan or something).

Going Phenom II is a clear, decisive upgrade from any Athlon X2.