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what cpu is best?

mentalcrisis00

mentalcrisis00

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Hey all

I'm wondering what you folks think about power house CPU's. I'm on a budget of 150 to 250 and have 4 CPU's in mind. I'm looking for overall best gaming performance, overclockability, and reliability.

1. AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, 2.6GHZ
2. AMD Athlon X2 4400. 2.1 GHZ dual core
3. AMD AMD Opteron 170 Denmark, 2GHZ dual core
4. Intel core 2 duo conroe, 2.13GHZ dual core

Lemme know what you think would be best or suggest your own, from what i've gathered the FX and Opterons are the best from AMD for overclocking, but everyone is a buzz about the core 2's saying they can get like over 3GHZ in core overclock. So i'm a bit stumped on what's the better buy.

thanks all

-Ray
 
If it was me, I'd go with the Conroe. 🙂

I don't overclock or anything though, so you might get different answers.

If you do plan on OC'ing, I hear that the Opteron's are great.
 
Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
Hey all

I'm wondering what you folks think about power house CPU's. I'm on a budget of 150 to 250 and have 4 CPU's in mind. I'm looking for overall best gaming performance, overclockability, and reliability.

1. AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, 2.6GHZ
2. AMD Athlon X2 4400. 2.1 GHZ dual core
3. AMD AMD Opteron 170 Denmark, 2GHZ dual core
4. Intel core 2 duo conroe, 2.13GHZ dual core

Lemme know what you think would be best or suggest your own, from what i've gathered the FX and Opterons are the best from AMD for overclocking, but everyone is a buzz about the core 2's saying they can get like over 3GHZ in core overclock. So i'm a bit stumped on what's the better buy.

thanks all

-Ray
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anything thats Intel core 2 dup is as good or better than what AMD has to offer at present!!

I have a highend AMD chip in one of my riggs and the Intel stuff just blows it away!!
 
The E6400 at stock is actually faster than a FX55 in almost every way possible. But the thing is, these chips are extremely overclockable. You'll be sitting at 3.0 ghz with very little effort which'll blow everything else in your lineup away.
 
Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
Hey all

I'm wondering what you folks think about power house CPU's. I'm on a budget of 150 to 250 and have 4 CPU's in mind. I'm looking for overall best gaming performance, overclockability, and reliability.

1. AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, 2.6GHZ
2. AMD Athlon X2 4400. 2.1 GHZ dual core
3. AMD AMD Opteron 170 Denmark, 2GHZ dual core
4. Intel core 2 duo conroe, 2.13GHZ dual core

Lemme know what you think would be best or suggest your own, from what i've gathered the FX and Opterons are the best from AMD for overclocking, but everyone is a buzz about the core 2's saying they can get like over 3GHZ in core overclock. So i'm a bit stumped on what's the better buy.

thanks all

-Ray
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Actually the X2 4400 is 2.2GHZ and so is the Opteron 170. I would highly recommend a core 2 duo E6300(1.83GHZ) unless you have a little extra money to shell out on an E6400.
 
The Conroe is definitely the hot thing right now. :thumbsup:

My E6400 overclocks to 3,200Ghz with almost no effort at default voltages with an aftermarket heatsink/fan. I haven't even tried higher as this was my goal and under load it runs in the upper 50'sC which is about as warm as I feel comfortable with.

Even un-overclocked the 2.13Ghz stock speed C2D handles pretty much anything you can throw at it. Being able to ramp it up to 3.2Ghz is great but unnecessary unless you are a benchmark freak(not that there is anything wrong with that, lol). If you use it for gaming, encoding video, or simply websurfing, a C2D at stock speed is fine.
 
Thanks all, i've been getting the deffinitive answer for E6400 all over the place. And ya I currently own the X2 4400 and i guess it is 2.2GHZ my mistake. At the parents house so can't look at the computer 🙂. Anyhow to answer Zaistev's Q this is mainly going to be an upgrade for now. At present i am running X2 4400, 2GB (512MB x 4) pc333 DDR ram, Epox Nforce4 board, and EVGA 7800GT 256MB. I have about $200 to $300 max to spend so i won't be able to get the uber awsome looking high end Nforce 680i boards. I've been advised elsewhere to go with a P965 based chipset, the boards are cheaper and they say they're pretty zippy. This asus looks to be the best to me out of those.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbar...t/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030</a>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030

Also seeming i have the old DDR333 ram would like 1GB of DDR2 800 do me? or should i go for the full 2GB?

thanks all
 
Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
Thanks all, i've been getting the deffinitive answer for E6400 all over the place. And ya I currently own the X2 4400 and i guess it is 2.2GHZ my mistake. At the parents house so can't look at the computer 🙂. Anyhow to answer Zaistev's Q this is mainly going to be an upgrade for now. At present i am running X2 4400, 2GB (512MB x 4) pc333 DDR ram, Epox Nforce4 board, and EVGA 7800GT 256MB. I have about $200 to $300 max to spend so i won't be able to get the uber awsome looking high end Nforce 680i boards. I've been advised elsewhere to go with a P965 based chipset, the boards are cheaper and they say they're pretty zippy. This asus looks to be the best to me out of those.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbar...t/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030</a>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030

Also seeming i have the old DDR333 ram would like 1GB of DDR2 800 do me? or should i go for the full 2GB?

thanks all
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not trying to be a d!ck and definately welcome to the forums, but $200-300 is only going to get you a cpu. you still need (imho) 2GB of at least ddr2 667 (or 800) and a m/b - gigabyte 965-s3, so your total is going to be a conservative $500 for the upgrade. imho you need to ask yourself do you really need it?

if you are currently running a 4400x why not use it. for gaming you need to put your $$$ into a good gpu, that is where it is since you are not going to be cpu limited with a 4400, even if you need to run it stock since you have 333 ram

just my .02....
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
Thanks all, i've been getting the deffinitive answer for E6400 all over the place. And ya I currently own the X2 4400 and i guess it is 2.2GHZ my mistake. At the parents house so can't look at the computer 🙂. Anyhow to answer Zaistev's Q this is mainly going to be an upgrade for now. At present i am running X2 4400, 2GB (512MB x 4) pc333 DDR ram, Epox Nforce4 board, and EVGA 7800GT 256MB. I have about $200 to $300 max to spend so i won't be able to get the uber awsome looking high end Nforce 680i boards. I've been advised elsewhere to go with a P965 based chipset, the boards are cheaper and they say they're pretty zippy. This asus looks to be the best to me out of those.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbar...t/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030</a>"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbar...t/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030</a></a>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131030

Also seeming i have the old DDR333 ram would like 1GB of DDR2 800 do me? or should i go for the full 2GB?

thanks all
Click to expand...

not trying to be a d!ck and definately welcome to the forums, but $200-300 is only going to get you a cpu. you still need (imho) 2GB of at least ddr2 667 (or 800) and a m/b - gigabyte 965-s3, so your total is going to be a conservative $500 for the upgrade. imho you need to ask yourself do you really need it?

if you are currently running a 4400x why not use it. for gaming you need to put your $$$ into a good gpu, that is where it is since you are not going to be cpu limited with a 4400, even if you need to run it stock since you have 333 ram

just my .02....
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Totally 100% agree,
the 7900 is going to be obsolete LONG before the x2 4400 ....
 
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