Thinking of yet another upgrade for my pc, I currently run an athlon 64 3200, I'm confused what to go for?

Question

I've looked at savastore for some decently priced motherboard kits, I was looking at a dual core pentium Aries Pentium D 2.6GHz Skt 775 / 512MB / Motherboard Kit.

A mate of mine is currently looking at going for an athlon dual core 4200. I'm put off by the price in comparison although I know this machine will out perform the pentium. I really want to know if I'm getting a significantly faster better pc for my money by upgrading and going for the pentium. I use my pc for a variety of applications, I do multi-task graphics and video applications being the core of my work, but I also play a lot of games.

I am looking for a relatively low budget set up but want to get a decent machine for my cash or if I'm better staying with what I've got I might just up the ram. Just wondered if going for the pentium is the right move interms of performance. I read up on all this and its conflicting, anyone please help. Also who can get a better deal maybe on an athlon dual core, pls let me know

Answer 1

i wouldn't buy a Pentium D processor. either you can afford a Intel Core 2 Duo processor (that's the one that beat the AMDs) or stay with your Athlon 3200 what isn't too bad, and only upgrade the ram to 1GB.
as an advice: don't upgrade your PC too often, you just waste your money. who knows what's coming in a year and then you might think you have to upgrade again (btw, Intel will release a new generation of processors soon, code name Kentsfield with 4 cores on one die).

Answer 2

I am sure you will get answers on both sides. I personally like the AMD processors, because for the same speed/performance as the Pentium the price is $100-200 less than the Pentium. I would go for the dual core processor, I would also load on RAM since you are doing lots of graphics you will need enough memory to get the graphics loaded into, most of the delay is in loading the data from the disk onto memory, so if you have enought memory you will load the data only once. Also go for a fast bus motherboard 800MHz would be ideal. Another important component is the graphics board, for your application you will need to invest in a high end graphics board with lots of memory.

Good luck.

Answer 3

First off you are not getting that big an upgrade, in fact in a lot of stuff your current processor would outperform the Pentium D, in other cases it wouldn't, but overall it is not a good upgrade. I would recommend if you are short on money to just add RAM. Also for gaming consider a new video card.

Now I don't really know what kind of money you have to spend on an upgrade, but if you email me with that information I could probably give you a better recommendation on what the best upgrade would be for you, my email is in my profile.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Currently Intel's dual core chips are out performing AMD's. This is sad for me because I am an AMD guy. I cannot say if the system you speced here is decent or not as I am unfamiliar with Intel setups. I just wanted to point out that according to tests, the intel dual cores are better than AMD.

Who gave me the negative rating? I only spoke the truth! The new pentium dual core cpu outperforms anything AMD has out and will until AMD's next release. I like AMD, use nothing but, yet I won't give misinformation. Personally, were I this person, I would stick with AMD and go with the AM2 socket so as to be able to use the faster DDR2 RAM! Now there's an ungrade I have yet to do!

Answer 6

Once again I have to agree with "mysticman". Although, I would get 2GB of RAM for video apps and at least a 256Mb video card . A bigger HDD is something no one else has mentioned here. A 250GB would do. When you do video, remember 1 hour of video will eat up 1GB of HDD space.