Hi all, 1 quick question, im thinking about upgranding my CPU on my socket AM2 board, i've seen a Athlon FX-62 for £120 and i would like to know whether its a good upgrade option from a X2 3800 i've been looking on toms hardware CPU charts and it beats every other AMD CPU paws down, But i'm not all that knowledgable and any comments are welcome BTW i've got 2GB of ram, and i'm getting a 3870 from ATI soon
is your 3800 overclocked? if so what speed it at? as a FX-62 is really just bling factor, ooo iv got unlocked multipliers! personally i would keep running the 3800 and wait for AMD/ATI new chips and chipsets, then decide what to do from there. AMD wants to be top dog again so just wait for the price wars!! A HD3870 looks like its performing rather well against nvidia atm, but the 8800GT is seriously quick. mind you my 8800GTS is faster but thats because i have overclocked to hell out of it, i beat most of my friends powered by 8800GTX's. only thing that can beat me at are lan parties is a 88ultra.
lol no offence at all but you're 320mb GTS isn't faster than a GTX, 2 of them in SLI are but even highly overclocked a single doesn't get close. you're friends must be running their GTX's under Pentium 3's unless you're only talking about 3dmark06 where you get a nice bump on your score with a Quad processor? for reference you get 15k in 3dmark05 i got over 21k with my GTX, quite the difference eh because 05 doesn't factor in the CPU it's all GPU deciding the score. to the OP an FX-62 aint so grand anymore but it's your money.
i haven't updated my 05 score. http://www.zombielan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=353&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=225 thats are leader board. i shall run 05 some time...
that combo of gigabyte mobo and conroe is definatly worth while. unless you have an SLI set up... in short the gigabyte DS3R is a fantastic overclocker, doesn't need alot of adjustments to overclock any CPU. my voltages on my oc are still automatical set by bios,and the backup bios from when a OC fails is just pure genius!