Upgrade to AMD 6000+ X2 from Opteron 165

[GeezerMan]

I currently use a Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.6GHz, 2 GB of DDR400 ram, 7600GT card, Creative xtrememusic sound. MSI board, Gaming is not very important, I do a little BF2, like an hour a week when some politician makes me mad. I do some video encoding .
Anyway, I can get the AMD 6000+ X2 for about 165.00 total, after I sell the cheapo ECS bundled motherboard. That's pretty good. I like the specs on the DFI INFINITY NF570-M2/G, for about 106.00 delivered. I figured I might use the Platinum OCZ PC26400 ram. I figure I would spend about 70.00 after selling my 939 parts. Not too bad.
What do you guys think? How much of a performance difference will I see by going to DDR2 ram and this CPU?
I just about talked myself out of this, since with what I do, it probably won't impact performance much. Thanks

 

[MarcVenice]

ey not to much IMO, your current rig isn't dieing of lack of memory bandwith and the 6000+ is only clocked 400mhz higher, it will be an improvement, but nothing to major. If you REALLY need an improvement over a 2.6ghz clocked opteron, you should go core 2 duo, and OC one to3.2ghz or so. The C2D arhitecture is also better suited for video encoding, so that should show a real improvement, but will cost a bit more.

 

[GeezerMan]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
ey not to much IMO, your current rig isn't dieing of lack of memory bandwith and the 6000+ is only clocked 400mhz higher, it will be an improvement, but nothing to major. If you REALLY need an improvement over a 2.6ghz clocked opteron, you should go core 2 duo, and OC one to3.2ghz or so. The C2D arhitecture is also better suited for video encoding, so that should show a real improvement, but will cost a bit more.

Good, you are confirming what I'm thinking.

I knew Intel was the way to go for overclocking and video work, I have seen the test reports on video tasks, and it's impressive.

It's tempting to do it for the small amount of cash involved, but I think I'll wait.

 

[MarcVenice]

Imo you're better of waiting till december, for both Penryn and Phenom, and see which one is the better bet by then. Your 2.6gh opty is by no means a slow processor btw.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Imo you're better of waiting till december, for both Penryn and Phenom, and see which one is the better bet by then. Your 2.6gh opty is by no means a slow processor btw.

I agree 100%. Anything AMD now won't be a big improvement, even overclocked, and what with price drops and new processors on the horizon if you buy now *anything* you get now will just be "old" tech in a couple of months.

 

[MarcVenice]

F4P, put that in context If he would be going from a 3000+ venice at 1.8ghz, a 6000+ would be a big improvement

 

[Gikaseixas]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Imo you're better of waiting till december, for both Penryn and Phenom, and see which one is the better bet by then. Your 2.6gh opty is by no means a slow processor btw.

yep i would wait also, new stuff is coming

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
F4P, put that in context If he would be going from a 3000+ venice at 1.8ghz, a 6000+ would be a big improvement

oh, definitely, a 1.8ghz single core a64 to a 3ghz dual core would be a big improvement, but from a 2.6 dual core to a 3ghz dual core? XP not nearly worth it. of course, if he had a 3000 venice it would probably be at or near 2.6ghz too (or faster maybe).