Author Topic: X2 4800 (Read 325 times)

FOGOLD · « **on:** October 16, 2006, 02:56:00 PM »

Overclockers UK are selling off Athlon X2 4800's (skt 939). I'm tempted as my mobo will accept it, but I know Iwon't see much difference over my existing single core 4000+. Jeez, dilemmas! Especially if games using dual core come out soon.

Then again, better to wait and upgrade the whole shebang to Conroe when that happens.

Musings.

RELIC · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2006, 12:41:17 PM »

I have the 4000+ (running stock at 2.4) and was wondering if there would be any significant improvement in Aces High by upgrading to the 4800 (dual core also running at 2.4). Anyone have any input?

Kev367th · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2006, 05:34:36 PM »

Going dual care as AH2 will use both cores -

Your not going to see VAST increases in performance, but it will be smoother.

You might also want to checkout the socket 939 Opterons (if your board supports them), they just took an on average 50% price cut.
They use standard DDR so no need for ECC or registered memory.

RELIC · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2006, 12:48:37 PM »

I thought some time ago it was said that AH did NOT use both cores - I assume the game was updated to take advantage of dual core.

Kev367th · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2006, 01:05:09 PM »

Nope Skuzzy has been saying for a long long time now that AH2 is multithread capable, will therefore use both cores.

I believe from an earlier question I put to him it would actually run with 4 cores -

2 for the OS
1 for the game itself
1 for the networking side of the game.

With the upcoming pseudo quads from Intel and AMD's 4x4 (2 x 2 dual cores) you'd be giving one dual core cpu over to the game ONLY.

Price is going to be the big question.