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October 29th, 2006
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| As stated in the avatar:  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Out here in the New Mexico desert.
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|  Question about upgrading to dual core Right now, I am running an A64 3700+. But since we got our dual core laptop a while back, I have been thinking I should upgrade to a dual core cpu for my rig. I have been reading stuff to the effect that I need a dual core windows patch and some kind of fix, a BIOS upgrade and that reinstalling windows is necessary before dual core will work. Is all this necessary before I can run a DC processor? What about my chipset drivers? Do I need to update that as well? I have thought about getting the A64 X2 4400+, and the X2 4400+(89W) has been recommended to me as well.  If it's not fixed, then don't broke it!  |
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October 29th, 2006
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 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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The A64 X2 3800+ are the best choice IMO. I bought one mid-summer during the price cuts and it must have been one of the my best upgrades ever. It's a great clocker to boot. I'm currently at 2.8GHZ @ stock voltage.  I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220 | |
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October 29th, 2006
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| T-Rex  | My experience with dual core is... flawed. I've seen far better DC CPU's than mine and to tell you the truth it makes me regret my purchase, seeing as my 3700+ single core was a great overclocker. Overall, i'm not quite sure dual core is a good thing for the consumer. Because really, to the eye dual core looks exactly like single core. :)  |
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October 29th, 2006
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| Meow means woof in cat.  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
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| Motherboard make model would be helpful =O Really, the only reason I would see going to dual core is for gaming and rendering a crap load of stuff (or running ALOT of programs), and alot of 1-1.5 year old games don't support DC (or only from a patch). I would upgrade the motherboard if you could, sounds like your on 939, which means DDR400 and such. Go socket T and get a Core 2 Duo! >:D Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD |
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October 29th, 2006
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| As stated in the avatar: Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Out here in the New Mexico desert.
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I like my current cpu, as it has really given me a great boost in overall gaming performance as opposed to my P43.2ghz that I had before, but one complaint I've had is that unlike the P4, it doesn't handle more than one thing at a time very well, and I got so used to the P4 just being able to go all over the place and handle a lot of stuff. Gaming on the P4 was okay, but it was pretty quick with multitasking. I have FEAR and some other games that are 1-2 years old. Would they NOT run with dual core? Could I not set affinity for certain games to run through run core? If it's not fixed, then don't broke it! | |
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October 29th, 2006
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| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Hmm. How does your X2 choke and your singlecore not? I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220 |
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October 29th, 2006
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| As stated in the avatar: Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Out here in the New Mexico desert.
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If it's not fixed, then don't broke it! | |
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October 29th, 2006
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| Modder-ator  | You really won't see any performance improvement in games by going from a single core to dual core. The gains will be found in multithreaded apps and heavy multitasking. HERE is a great little guide on the AMD support forums on how to get everything working correctly with your Athlon64 X2 and the hotfixes. THIS is also a pretty similar guide but presented in a little different way.  Last edited by gvblake22; October 29th, 2006 at 19:15. |
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October 29th, 2006
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| Colonel Calamity  | if you would really use apps that can put a dualcore to use then go for it, otherwise you will not see any real performance increase aside from F@H  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  |
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