AMD64x2 6400+BE or AMD Quad 9850 BE?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Mrkwhlr2, Feb 21, 2009.

  1. Mrkwhlr2

    Mrkwhlr2 Private E-2

    I have an Asus m2n-sli deluxe board and it is limited to a amd9850 quad. I presently have an amd64x2 6400+ BE

    I mostly game. Will I see an increase in performance buying the quad 9850 or should I stay with the 64x2 6400+ BE.

    My prestent specs are as follows:
    AMD 64x2 6400+ BE
    Asus M2n-sli deluxe mobo
    2 x evga 8800gtx in sli
    Vista 64bit
    (8) gig (4x2gig) XMS2 memory
     
  2. Speculant

    Speculant The Confused One

    if you play newer games that will take advantage of all 4 cores, then yes, you will see an improvement.
     
  3. Borsung

    Borsung Corporal

    get a new mobo and get a core i7, those things are screaming fast! and soooooooo easy to overclock, i had mine up to 3.6ghz stable but i turned it back to factory because i saw no point in having it overclocked as i did not see much of a increase in speed cuz thing has eight logical cores!
     
  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    While an option, I would highly doubt that the original poster would wish to be spending alot more cash updating mobo and CPU, over just a CPU as seems their chosen route is AMD over Intel at this point.



    @Mrkwhlr2 _ to be honest with not many games really taking advantage of multicores, and your system setup being very good already with 2x8800gti's I would imagine that the games are working fine FPS wise, and dont think that the leap from 2 cores to 4 cores will reap you huge rewards for the extra cost.

    Are you having issues with speeds in games?
     

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